The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-22 00:00:00

BOXING.

rIGIIT BETWEEN DONNELLY ANQ OLIVER.
Two great meetings took place yesterday, which
attracted all the refuse of this great metropolis ;
nantely, the mob at Smithfield, and the miscella-
neous groupe on Crawley Common), •there Don.
nelly, the Irish Champion, exhibited in a fight
with Oliver, for 200 guineas. The fight was nil-
ginally fixed to take place two miles from God=
stone, but the picquets belonging to the army of
occupation found some enemies who birouac•ked
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that quarter, and to make safe, the spot Miele the.
battle was fought, eight miles tatther out, was
fixed upon.—Cribb was engaged by a Noble Lord
to second his adopted Oliver, and Shelton was the
bottle-holder. Belcher and Randal seconnde►.
Donnelly, whose chief backer was •the Sporting
Colonel, the great patron of Randal and the Hi-
bernian millers. Betting fi to 4on Donnelly.
ROUND 1. Donnelly put himself into good attitude f it hit-
ting, with the right shoulder level with the fist, in parallel
with the chit,. He let by with the left hand away from dis-
lance, which brought the men to a close, and Oliver receive;
some bits-, but Donnelly disengaged himself. by giving his ad-
versary a heavy tall. His superior strength was apparent,
and he was backed at 7 to 4.
9. Oliver hit the body with the left band a-la-Rand,l, but
without the force, and Donnelly rushed in with much deter-
mination; here be shoved a want of science. These was
some bugging bitting in the close, and Donnelly thieve again.
3. Donnelly missed his hit, and another close followed;
Oliver had the best of the weaving system, and he threw his
adversary upon a balance on the lower ropes of the ring;
Donnelly was undermost upon the ground.
4. Oliver retreated to the ropes, where Donnelly shewei
fight, knocked his head against the stake, and threw him hea-
vily. Both were bleeding.
5. Donnelly placed a left handed blow upon the eye, and it
was returned by a sharp flush hit upon the mouth, which bled
f►eely; by way of compliment Donnelly gave him a crushing
fall, and went down upon hint.
6. Oliver btgan to sheer want of condition, and he hit short
with the left hand upon the body; he received a smart hit
upon the bead, with which he went down, but it,was nut con-
sidered by the umpires a knock down blow.
7. Donnelly placed a bit upon the head with the left hand,
and again threw his loan. Ssme difference occurred between.
the seconds as to the manner in which t lie men were entangled.
on the ground, and Randal threatened to give Shelton a lick
on the t►ead with the water bottle.
8. Oliver had evidently suffered heavily from tl►e falls, and
he bled profusely. He. was thrown again. 7 to 4 011 Don-

9. Donnelly placed a heavy right handed blow upon his ad-
v.rsary's side, the mark of which was visible, and in a closis
Oiiter went down from weakness.
to and 11. Oliver was thrown in both rounds, after strug-
gling closes, without any hitting of consequence.
12. Oliver bloke his ground from weakness, and they were
alike distressed • both were down until the lath round, its
each Of which, distressed;
strength. served in the throws.
Oliver fought' at worst until the Itith round, when he got
what is technically teimed second wind ; be led again, mut
became the favourite at odds.
19th. Oliver placed two hits, meeting bis adversa• y u tont
the rush, and Donnelly appeared much distre,sed, end was

I brown. '
Until the 22d round there was but little- fighting • ; Oliver's
head was much swollen, and he was aiming 'at every man-
oeuvre to get best. In this round, he showed his nature to
the admiration of the ling, by fixing himself in defensive atti-
tudes to the corner of the ring, where he gallantly fought
himself out in bull-dog style, and threw his agversary.
23. A fine.specimen of science was here displayed. Both
let fly at the same moment, and the counter hits told upon
the mouth of each; both went down at several feet distaoca
from each other with the effects of the blows, which operate,l
strongly upon the teeth, and hOth had enough to do for seve-
ral rounds to disgorge the claret.
24. Oliver received a left handed bit in the throat, awl.

was thrown in the close.
25. Oliver showed some extraordinary manhood ; he went
to work at the muzzling system, and although so much re-
duced in strength by overpowering weight, he placed two flust
t
hits upon his adversary's head, and threw hint. Betting 2 te►
I upon Oliver, from his known game, and the distress whicis
his adversary laboured under.
2ti. Donnelly continued in a weak state, and although Oli-
ver was the worst beaten, he led in this round, at the close of
which both went down, Donnelly under.
27 and 213weje bugging rounds i►► favour of Oliver, but thu
turn were in that weak state that it was any one's battle;
good judges took the odds about Donnelly's whining., conceiv-
ing strength with any thing like equal game must bear hint
through the contest. Donnelly had shown game •in some
points, and he qualified the approbation his Hibernian friends
• entertained of him until the close of the fight.
We shall not pursue the rounds which followed until that
which finished the mill. There was-no Lombard- street to
the'orange boys about it. A telling hit would hive settled'
it; and we shall therefore leave the distressed situation of
'the men in hugging any thing of tope or stake, until the fern
ideas they hue! left were put en one side by a hit. Donnell,
was favoured by nature in the thirty-sixth round. and t.-. 3
,proved himself a good man by the efforts, he •made.—Aft‘r
staggering against each other, Donnelly, fresher than his
antagonist, hit him in the throat and threw, hint a heavy Girt .;
when on his second's knee Oliver's head fell upon his shouldi,r
in a most pitiful state, and being unable to come to time; the
Irish Champion was declared the victor,• after a struggle of
one hour and nine minutes.
Restarocs.—But few observations are necessary. O'ivrr•
showed himself again a very brave marl, but be is deficient it►
action• It was altogether an Awkward fight. but many speci-
mens of game were displayed. Donnelly has proved himself
a bottotu-man, but not equal iu science as a fiztiter of his
strength.

On Mon►lay morning, whiles little girl was bath-
ing close to the machines at Leiill, blue ouoir-
tonatelv cut her leg a little below the knee; on be-
ing brought from the 'Water, she appeared some-
what faint ; and while the owner of the bathing
machine was in the act of binding up the wound,
she took a lock-jaw, and expired in a few mu-
pient4.