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Clipped from The Kalgoorlie Sun January 1900...Boxing before his home folk at the Timaru Boxing Club Danny Ruenalf the Maori glove artist, faced Pyrmont's veteran prize fighter, Jim Quigley. The latter won in the tenth round, having severely gruelled his opponent with hooks, crosses and uppercuts...A syndicate of cagey promoters and well-heeled fight enthusiasts organize a nationwide tournament to find a marketable opponent for Australasian champion Des Quinlan after No.1 contender Billy McColl is forced to back out after injuring his hand in his fight with South Afrika's Mike Williams....Famed trainer Larry Foley writes in the Sun that he sees the two best men at that moment to be Bill Lang of Melbourne and Pat McIntyre the Ballarat mitt-slinger....He adds that three other likely fellows have allowed themselves to be put out of consideration by recent losses to chaps he expected them to beat....Jim Barry the Chicago-based heavyweight impresses the mob with his handling of clever Jimmy Henry...In an interview with the Sun he gives a little of his background, born in a village near the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen to a native mother and Irish railroad worker father, moving to the United States at fifteen to work on a cattle ranch before taking up the fight game in the John L Sullivan Touring Company...