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
halt 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. Haying thus " done duty on
the dial," and assiduously " rubbed in a good
deal of knuckle burnissi" upon each other's visages,
these sturdy fools of vulgar fame, getting to closer
quarters, exchanged some fierce body-blows, which
are facetiously called "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-
rupted point by the rural police, The
twe n t
atthat
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 groupd, where the rivals
again set to. It was about 1 o clock in the afternoon
when they were once more brought to " the scratch:,
which means, by the way, a line scratched in the
turf; hence the etymology e
tFn rof a pounds werehrase that ifought
s often
upon the new ground, but amidst so much contusion
most innocently used. S
om
from the improper conduct of Baldock's partisses,
who would break into the ring, that Bell's reporter
was unable to note the details of the performance.
In his own vile jargoe had endeavouranded toßal-
re-
late tn, heat of Gannon
, up to that time, he fs
dock,--as, upon former occasions, the achievements
of Mace and Goss, or of Mace and ;
tz. --ng, were re-
lated iu tolerable English by the ;Saturday Review.

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