The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

SLANG OF THE RING,

The fortitude of the prize ring never lacks a
sacred bard for its celebration, yet the late battle of
Baldock with Gannon is only half told—the other
half dispersed in a whirlwind of angry controversy,
which has called into exercise the judicial autho-
rity of the P. R. Gazette. Its reporter, with an
exquisite variety of metaphoric diction, says the
_London Review, relates the first two dozen rounds.
The dispensation, right and left, of innumerable
well-aimed strokes by either pair of " mawleys" is
minutely specified. We read how the " mawleys"
—or fists, in honest English—of one and the other
skilful bruiser descended by turns, in swift succes-
sion, upon the much-enduring features of his rival ;
—now falling upon the " ivories" or the " kisser,"
which means the teeth or the lips ; and then upon
the " nozzle," "snout," or "smeller," from which
a copious supply of the " ruby," the "genuine
home-brewed," was perceived to distil ; again salut-
ing the mouth, or " tater-trap," with repeated
blows; or aiming at the upper part of the face, and
confounding "the daylight," as the hostile " ogles"
alias the "peepers" became suffused with blood.
with such charming variations they played
upon the human face divine; and this is the
elegant style in which their performances
are described. Having thus " done duty on
the dial," and assiduously " rubbed in a good
deal of knuckle burnish" upon each other's visages,
these sturdy fools of vulgar fame, getting to closer
quarters, exchanged some fierce body-blows, which
are facetiously celled "rib-ticklers," or " digs in the
victualling department." A. column of similar de-
testable slang is occupied with the detailed account
of twenty-four rounds of manual pumelling, inter-
point by the rural police. The
rupted at that
" camp" was then broken up, the crowd dispersed
for a few minutes, and the police, we suppose dis-
creetly retired out of sight, until, the " referee" had
selected another piece of grcund, where the rivals
again set to. It was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon
when t hey were once more brought to" the scratch."
which means, by the way, a line scratched in the
turf ; hence the etymology of a phrase that is often
most innocently used. Some ten rounds were fought
upon the new ground, but amidst so much confusion
from the improper conduct of Baldoek's partisans,
who would break into the ring, that Bell's reporter
was unable to note the details of the performance.
In his own vile jargon, he had endeavoured to re-
late, up to that time, the feats of Gannon and Bal-
dock,--as, upon former occasions, the achievements
of Mace and Goss, or of Mace and King, were re-
nglish by the Saturday Review.
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