Tim McGrath, Trainer.

NZ Truth, Issue 109, 20 July 1907, Page 4

Tim McGrath, Trainer.

Tim McGrath, Bill Squires' s trainer, who brought Sharkev 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. N#fc a showy fighter of the Jack O'Briep type, or a rough house mawler of the Tommy Burns type, but a clean, speedy}, workmanlike boxer, who wastes no efforif and makes no mistakes. "He has a wallop that is hard enough to down the best man that ever stepped m the ring with one application, if it only reaches the righii spot. ■'■ "Squires is a fighter. A fighter every inoh of him. Prom his heels to the crown of his head, every ounce of his weight, every pound of energy, EVERY THRILLING FIBRE and springy muscle, every thew 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 blow. "That's why I pick Squires as a world-beater. "You will remember how Sh«®key fought Jeffries until his ribs wore crushing m and his heart bammerwi until it almost refused to beat. Weil, this boy is made of the same > stufi, only he is what good old Tom m»Yer was, and that it— clever. Tom was the grandest mere fighting animal I ever trained, but h« lacked the man's brain that makes champions. This fellow combines both the animal and human fighting instinct. Watch him."