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Observer, Volume XLI, Issue 13, 27 November 1920, Page 28

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VEItS SAP—Wooden. handwriting. ELLER (?) —The sketches show no promise; M.—Deferred for investigation. Seems "very like a whale." P.P.A.—Nasty stufifc, What you really want is a mind bath. E.R.S.—You go to too much trouble to explain that black is black. p,T. Variation of a chestnut in full flower during the Wars of the Hoses. OBOE.—Still of the opinion that Budyard Kipling is your literary superior. CANTAB.—It has high literary qualities, but is suitable only for the cranks for whom it is written. ANZAC.—May have been misinformed, but still trust the informant, who, if not to be trusted, is unfit for hie job. E.G.S. —The paper you mention is the only one in the Empire which regards age, poverty, sickness., sorrow, and misfortune, ag " funny" — but complaint about its "amusing" par regarding your grandmother should not be sent to us. We can't stop it being "humorous." WAGER.—The first match fought by Bill Squires in America was against Tommy Burns, who held the heavy-weight title of the States. Squires at the time was undisputed heavy-weight champion of Australia, and it is. hardly likely that he would fight out of his class. Besidejs, he went to. America to look for Burns, and the match was fixed for Squires without much delay. The question of fighting a battle with another boxer out of his class would not even receive the serious consideration of his mariage'r, particularly in view of the fact that the world's championship would be risked. Burns, as is well known, outed Bill Squires in one minute and .49 seconds. Afr terwards, Squires was defeated by Jim Flynn in six rounds, and then quickly closed his American career, returning to Australia.