Tim McGrath, Trainer.

NZ Truth, Issue 108, 13 July 1907, Page 4

Tim McGrath, Trainer.

Tiva McGrath, Bill Squires's trainer, who brought Sbarkev out, and is considered among the very best judges m America of fighters, sends his estimate of Bill and -his prospects along. "Squires is as fast as a flash. Not a showy fighter of the JackO'Brien type, or a trough house mawler of the Tommy Burns type, but a clean, speedy), workmanlike boxer, who wastes no effort and makes no mistakes. "He has a wallop that is hard enough to down the best man that ever steppied m the ring with one applicafc'cTa:,- .if ji "only xe&ohes the right? "Squired is (a fighter. A fighter every inoh of him. From his heels; to the crown of His head, every ounce of his weight, every pound of energy, EVERY THRILLING FIBRE and springy muscle, every tbew and sinew, is pure fighting material ; and his brain is the fighter's brain. He is an implacable ring foe, a fellow who never lets up on a beaten man, who is so game that he would dfte standing Up, and his last gasp of breath, his last heart beat, would be spent to deliver just one more W<yw. "That's why I pick Squires a world-beater. "You will remember how Sharkey fought Jeffries until his ribs ware crushing m and his heart, hammers* until it almost refused to beat. Wsfll, this is made of the same st«s, only is what good old Tom lifs^wr was, and that it— clever. Tom was the grandest mere fighiing animal I ever trained, but h« lacked the man's brain tha.t moires champions. This fellow convb-in-es ?>oth the animal and human fighting instinct. Watch him."