BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 6

BOXING.

LANG AND SQUIRES TO MEET

It is now almost definitely settled that Bill Lang, the Australian heavyweight champion, will meet Bill Squires in a contest for the coveted laurels in Melbourne during Melbourne Cup week. The farming life has, it is said, rejuvenated the ex-Newcastle collier, and he is anxious to once more step into tHe ring that proved at periods so fortunate and unfortunate for the man who “had a punch.”

TOM SAVER’S OPPONENTS. An English writer has discovered that the heights and ‘weights of some of Tom Sayer’s opponents were enormous compared with those of a man sft BAn. and about ten and a-half stone. Aby Couch stood sft llin, and weighed over 12st; Dan Collins stood sft lOin and weighed lOst. 41b. Sayers then weighed 9st 121 b. Nat Langham stood at sft llin, and weighed list 21b; George Sims stood 6ft and weighed ] 3st; Harry Poulson was sft Sin in height and -weighed 12st 71b; Aaron Jones stood 6ft and weighed 12st; Wm. Perry (the “Tipton Slasher”) weighed 15st, and stood 6ft 2in; Bill Benjamin -weighed 12st 71b, and stood sft llin ; Tom Paddodk stood sft llin and weighed 12st 121 b; John C. Hecnan stood 6ft 2in and weighed 13st 81b. Tom Savers’ best -weight in the ring was lOst 91b.