BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3303, 23 August 1911, Page 6

BOXING.

LANC V. SQUIRES.

A FIVE-ROUND CONTEST

The meeting of Lang and Squires drew an enormous attendance to the Stadium at Sydney. Lang was favorite, whilst offers to lay Squires found few takers. The referee was George Jmber. Squires received an ovation. It was announced the battle was for the Championship of the British Empire. In the first round Squires drove- « straight left to Lang’s left eye and caused a red mark. In a clinch Lang broke the skin of Squire’s forehead. Lang fought heavily, for the body.. In the second round Squires commenced to force matters, and Lang, appearing angry at the applause . for Squires, drove the Tamworth farmer to the ropes, bursting 'his ear with a savage right punch. Squires had to clinch to save himself. In the third round Lang scored with a right to jaw. Again Squires clinched, and Lang, stepping back, sent a solid- left to Squires’:, mouth. Both men were ’covered -with blood from Squires’ ear; The latter’s - eye was also swollen. Round four saw Lang open coolly and t aggressively. - The round was warm, with Lang’s extra weight telling. ~ . In the fifth round Squires stepped m and drove his left to Lang’s face amid a roar of applause. Lang, then dropped Squires for: eight .seconds. Coming on Squires tried to mix it and was dropped for seven. Up again, Lang measured him with a right to jaw, which brought Squires down on* his face. As the referee began to count the towel was thrown in from Squires’ corner, and Lang was declared winner.