The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

AN AMERICAN ACCOUNT,

(From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper.)
Round 37—The cries of police now became per-
fectly deafening from Sayers' side ; but Heenan
still looked neither right nor left, hut only at his
man. He hit him once on the back as he was run-
ning to his corner, and as Sayers struck back and
rajwied, he wind hiui with ?area m1;4;11411.4 neck,

and held him for a minute in the air. Sayers, how-
ever, got up his hand and seized Heenan by the
cheek, and pulled at its sore and flabby folds most
painfully. This forced Heenan to lose his hold,
and Sayers slipped down.
Round 38—It was now plain from the *noise
around Sayers' corner, that it was the determina-
tion of his party to bring the fight to such a close
as would save Sayers the belt ; but still Heenan
kept to his work, and Macdonald.kept steering him
with judicious steadiness. He determined to fight
and to do nothing else so long as he could get
Sayers to fight with him, and though the ring was
now on the point of being broken in, he went up to
his man and fought as manfully and desperately as
at first. He hit Sayers as he pleased, and, finally
seizing him by the neck, he bent his head under
his arm and held him there against the ropes com-
pletely at his mercy. Left to himself, Sayers must
have sunk helpless to the earth, incapable to re-
spond again to time, whereupon finding a desperate
crisis had arrived the adherents of the Champion-
ship actually took hold of Heenan's arms and while
they kicked and struck him, dragged the beaten
Champion from his hold.

Round 39—The confusion was now so great that
no appeals could possibly oe heard, and the ring
being broken in by the friends of Sayers, at the same
moment the referee very improperly got up and re-
tired. Heenan, however, apprehending some new
artifice to prevent him from obtaining the belt he had
so fairly won, remained in the ring, and when time
was called went after Sayers again, through the
centre of the crowd, that now swarmed within the
inner ropes of the arena. Sayers was pushed up to-
wards him, but he easily hit him down or pursued
him to the corner among his seconds, as a man
would drive a boy.
In the 40th and 41st rounds this dishonourable
treatment was repeated, Sayers neither time being
brought up until Heenan presented himself before
him and demanded he should come out and fight.
Finally, when he went up the last time for
Round 42, finding that though Sayers could not,
or would not, rise from his seat in his corner, and his
seconds refused to award him the victory that be-
longed to him, by throwing up the sponge, he ad-
vanced upon him in the midst of his seconds and
struck him where he sat. Being struck in return
by some one else in that corner he turned upon that
other party, and, in his just indignation at the out-
rageous manner in which the object of his ambition
had been dishonourably wrested from him, he opened
a free fight against them all. His friends, however,
interfered, and carried him back to his corner, from
whence, after declaring himself to be the winner of
the fight, and the true owner of the belt and title of
the Champion of England, he left the ring. Fair-
minded and honourable Englishmen will decide
whether these rights, so dearly and bravely won,
shall not be given to him because he is a stranger
to their soil.