Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-05-04

liz to Heonan, both on the nose and mouth
Heonan, however followed sayers up and
struck him heavily on the mouth and sent
him to the ground.
35th--Tho two soon closed, and Sayers
gottiug hold Of Heenan BY the neck, hit
him severely over the left eye. Sayers was
thrown heavily, however.
36th-The two men closed, and Sayers
was thrown.
37th-Heenan gave Sayers one in the
mouth, knocking him down.
3sth-Sayers closed and fell. Heenan
gave Sayers one on the head when he had
almost reached the ground. It was consid-
cred an accident.
99th--Heenan got his arm around Say
ers' neck and to all appearance was strang-
ling him. Cries Of "let him CO." were
raised. Heenan, however stuck to his
hold, and the ring was broken in. The
greatest confusion prevailed. The umpire
was carried away in the throng, and the
fight was prematurely brought to close,
neither having been declared the winner.
The following from Wilkes Spirit of
the Times, gives an American account of
the closing rounds, essentially differing
from the above:
Round 3s.--It was now plain, from the
noise around Sayers' corner that it was the
determination of his party to bring the fight
to such close as would save Sayers the
champions belt; but still Heenan kept to
his work, and Macdonald kept steering him
with judicious steadiness. He was deter
mined to fight and 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 as desperately
as at first He hit Sayers as he pleased,
and finally seizing him by the neck, he bent
his head under bis arm, and held him there
and against the ropes, completely at his
mercy. Left to himself, Sayers must have
fell helpless to the earth, incapable to respond
again to time, whereupon, fiudiug des-
perate crisis had arrived, the adherents of
the champion actually took hold of Hee-
mans 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 be
heard, and the ring being broken in by the
friends of Sayers at the same moment, the
referee very improperly got up and retired.
Heenan, however, apprehending some new
artifce 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 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 Sec
onds, as a man would drive boy.
In the 40th and 41st rounds this dishon-
orable treatment was repeated; Sayers
neither time being brought up until Hee-
nan presented himself before him, and de-
manded that he should come out and fight.
Finally, when he went up the last time for
Round AZ, finding that though Sayers
could not or would not rise from his seat in
his corner bis seconds refused to award him
the victory that belonged to him, by throw
ing up the sponge, he advanced 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 up
on that other party, and, in his just indig-
nation at the outrageous manner in which
the object of his ambition had been dishon-
orably wrested from him, he opened free
fight against them all. His friends, how
ever 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 the title of Champi-
on of England, he left the ring. Fair
minded and honorable Engishmen will de-
eide whether these rights, so dearly and
bravely won, shall not be given to him be-
cause he is stranger to their SOIL