The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

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The Match between Mace and Coburn,

The following letter appears in a contemporary :—" Sir,
—As Mace has published letters in the sporting journals,
in which he reflects upon myself, and as you are considered
the daily organ of fair sporting, I trust to your impartiality
for the favour of inserting this reply. Mace says that
'Mr Brunton never found a shilling.' A truthful state-
ment of facts will be the best answer to this. I was ap-
pointed to receive all moneys to be staked on Mace's behalf,
and the proof of my having done so is that I still hold the
receipts for the money placed in the hands of the stake-
holder. It is not to be supposed, nor have I ever asserted,
that I found him the £6OO, but I did my best towards it.
The sporting gentlemen placed their money in my hands,
which I duly forwarded to Belts Life; and since his letter
I have asked several who they were 'standing' money
with, and their answer has uniformly been, ' With you,
Brunton.' If I did not actually put the £3OO down for
him, it was deposited and raised by and through me. lam
sorry to expose that which should have been secret, but in
my own defence I must remind Mace that when a forfeit
was imminent, and when only .ClOO a-side had been posted,
I went and made good the £5O on my own responsibility and
ridc, not knowing if the match had fallen through whether
I should get back a farthing. Is this not finding money ?
Again, another peril assailed the progress of the match, and
sooner than that it should be off, one of Mace's best friends
advanced £is beyond the £5O he had already given, at icy
most urgent appeal. It not this finding' or getting' the
money ? In the list that gentleman will be found for £95
instead of £5O. These are facts that Mace, or his scribes,
cannot gainsay.

" And, now, as to the Dublin affair. My leaving him
without a shilling is simply false. Mace told me that he
had plenty of money to get him to the ring side; be that as
it may, I paid the hotel bill, amounting to £l2 14s.
out of whieh £ll 2s. 3d, was for himself, Milner, and Mr
Montague (Mace's secretary). To say that I left him
without a shilling is ungrateful as well as untrue, as I lent,
or as I suppose it wilt prove, gave him Li When Milner
came to the choice of the referee, I certainly would not give
the veto out of my hands, having a due regard to those who
had found the stakes, and intrusted them in my hands. I
named the representative of Bell's Life for referee, and, of
course, I objected to a Mr Bowler, whom I did not know,
who was not present, and when I askei to see him he was
not forthcoming.

" No possibility of the match coming off, I then said that I
had done with the affair, having a proper regard to those
gentlemen who had found the money on the understandinrs
that it was for a fair, straightforward contest, and so I left.
I did not leave Mace penniless, as I have proved. It was
from no wish of mine that he showed in public or ran races
with bygone champions. I went from place to place, and
did my best to bring di the match. -I expended £3 10s.
beyond £25 I took with me to forward M.acc's interest.
This I do not regret, but I think it wrong that truth
should be perverted,

"Mace says I ' did not find a shilling.' I repeat I hold
the voucher's for the whole of the stakes down at Bell's
Life; and if any of those gentlemen who have found the
money, with myself, do not rece:ve their own again, it will
be no fault of " Your obedient servant,
"IlAnitx T. BRUNTON,
"Beech-street, Barbican, Oct. 8."