The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-19 00:00:00

THE FIGHT.

In the commencement, both men threw themselves into de-
fensive positions, each waiting for the attack of his opponent.
This was continued for some time, Sam occasionally making a
slight feint to draw his man ; but Ned was awake. At last Sam
hit out with his left, which was cleverly stopped, but be, was
more successful with his right, and popped in a stinger on Ned'.s.
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throw. Sam filibhits
him with activity, but in the end Neal threw him, and fell
heavily upon him. On rising, both showed marks of hitting in
their mugs. In the second round the same cautious game was
played on both sides, till Seal broke ground with his right, but
was met witha heavy counter from Sam's left; a rally followed,
in which Sam had the advantage, and finally floored Ned with a
left-handed hit on the phiz, thus winning the first krwch.down.
The same style of fighting was preserved throughout. The
stopping and counter-hitting throughout were beautiful, but
the latter the blows of Sam told with most severity, from hisal
most invariably meeting Neal first. In the third roulniN!‘
literally lifted his man up in his arms, and flung him on tl.,
ground. After this, in his attempts to close and throw Sam,
however, he was foiled, and on one or two occasions he went:
down to avoid punishment. At in-fighting Sam had a decided
advantage, hitting Neal left and right with a severity which
soon closed his left eye, and placed his whole frontispiece in a
state of derangement, while Sam himself, although frequently
hit, exhibited but trifling marks of punishment. Many cf Near 3
right-handed blows went over Sam's shoulder, whilst
those of Sam were put in with the str.orhtness and
quickness of a dart. In the seventh and eighth rounds
Sam was a good deal distressed and could Neal •have
then gone in, he might have secured the victory. But the fact
was, that he had been himself so severely punished, that he had
not the power, and thus gave Sam the opportunity of recover-
ing; and although Neal did all that nature and his experience
would permit, in Sam he found so decided a master of the art,
that he was incapable of making a turn in his favour. His stop-
ping was beautiful, and perhaps he never fought better—a fact
which tended to enhance the merit of Sam, who was never at a
loss, and in the most trying situations got out of difficulty, and
delivered his blows with stunning severity, cutting Ned on the
head, opening his closed eye by a smash on the swollen flesh,
and reducing hint almost to a state of stupor. Now and then
Ned roused the hopes of his friends by his manly efforts: but
in the fourteenth round, which was protracted by caution on
both sides, Neal's face being covered with blood, Sam put in his
left and right cleverly, and dropped his man, to rise no more.
• On being lifted on his second's knee, his head dropped, and all
was over; Sam being proclaimed the victor amidst the loudest
shouts, with few marks of punishment, while Neal's face exhi-
bited prominent marks of the talent of his spirited 'opponent.
The fight lasted exactly fifty-two minutes.
REMARKS.
The result of the battle places Sam's superiority beyond a ques.
tion, and Neal must now confess, however reluctantly, that he
has found his master. After he was dropped for the last time,
he was senseless for some minutes, and was carried to his car-
nage in that state. Same won the three events on which he had
bets with Neal—first knock down, first blood, and the battle.
It is understood that Sam's next encounter will be with Pres-
ton, of Birmingham.

SURREY THEATRE.-AR interesting mein-
drame has been produced at this theatre, intitled Zaino'',
the Mexican, in which Mr. 11. KEMBLE made his iiist
appearance fur several years. Miss SOMERN,ILLE and
Miss VINCENT sustained the two principal female char e-
ters in a very clever manner, and the piece was inucli p-
plauded. The pantomime ib an excellent one.