The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-05-04

FORTY TWO ROUNDS--FouL PLAY IN THE
RING.

From very full aceonns Of the fight in
Wilkes Spirit Of ths Times, We take some
extracts. Even betting on the Boy commenced
on the 9th round, and increased to 90 to 10
on the 10th round. In that round, Saysrs,
whose right arm had been wounded by a pre-
vious fall, came up with it fearfully swollen
clingng paralysed against his breast.
AT the commencement OF the 30th round,
betting three TO one ON Heenan. But he
suffered severely in this round, and Sayers
and his friends were encouraged, the latter
Offering on the commencement OF the 3lst
round, to take two to one bets.
In the 33d round Saysrs' friends com
menced calling Police I! policsp' in the
hope that Heenan would either run away,
or turn bis head so that the champion might
close up the left eye, the right being already
entirely blind. The artifoe did not take,
however, and, Heenan having knocked Sayers
down for the seventeenth time, the betting
was 100 to 20 on Heenan. The cry Of "polics''
commenced with the 34th round, but Sayers'
chances becoming improved, the clamor
about the police subsidized during the 35th
round.
During the 9th round the cries Of police
became perfectly deafening from Ssyers'
side. In the 18Th round, Sayers' friends
took hold Of Heenan's arms, and while they
kicked and struck him, dragged the beaten
champion from his hold. Hsenan had the
champions head under his arm, and was
holding him 1t bis mercy. We copy she 40
count Of the remaining rounds in full:
| Round 39.-The confusion was now 90
great that no appeals could possibly be heard,
and the ring being broken 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
now swsrmed within the inner ropes of the
arena. Sayers was pushed up towards him,
but he easily his him down or pursued him
to the corner among his seconds, as man
you'd drive boy.
In the 40th and 4lst rounds, this dishon-
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neither time being brought up until Heenan
presented himself before him, and demanded
he should come out and fight. Finally, when
be went up the last time, for
Round AZ, 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 belonged to
him, by throwing up the sponge, he advanced
upon him in tho midst OF his seconds, and
struck him where he sat. Being struck in re-
turn by some one else in that corner, be
turned upon that other party, and, in bis
just indignation at the outrageous manner in
which the object OF bis ambition had been
dishonorably wrested from him, be opened q
free fght against them all. His friends, how
ever, interfered, and carried him back to bis
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 honorable Englishmen will decide
whether these rights, so dearly and braveIy
won, shall not be given to him because he ID
q stranger to their soil.
EFFECTS CT THE NEWS IN NEW YORK.
From the N. Y. Eve. Post.
One might almost believe Manhattan Islant
to be inhabited exclusively by a race of pu
gilists, If he were to Judge by the excitement
that prevails on all hands in consequence oil
the news from the prize fight. "Heenan,'
"Sayers," "the Benicia Boy" "champion,'
"foul play" are the words which one hears
at every step in passing along the streets
The newspaper bulletins have been crowded
by hundreds of people, and the newsboyi
who are crying of extras are reaping . pIen
3 tiful harvest. The Charleston Convention
q seems to have been temporarily collapsed an,
forgotten.
Up town the excitement was quite as grea
as in the lower wards, and the extras wer
greedily snapped up by insatiate readers, .
double prices. The possessor OF one of thes
: extras was generally attended by crowd o
I, satellites, who insisted on his reading th
!, contents aloud. Along Broadway we're ma
ny such groups, and in some instances tn
reader walked along recounting to train 0
moving listeners the incidents Of the fight
In tho cars and omnibusses the fight SCENE,
TO be the only theme OF conversation.
In Wall street the bulls and bears appear
ed to be rs much excited rs il comm ercia
I panic had broken out.
I "IIow are stocks to-day?" asked Smith o
r Jones.
b 'Knocksd down at every round" answer
r ed Jones.
Q passenger on the Vanderbilt, who wit
!. messed the fight, gives the following accoun
Q Of the closing scenes:
. On the last call of time, Heenan came u
. promptly, and the referee left. Sayers wa
7 not up to time but Was sitting on the knee 0
q his second. Heenan, after waiting for him
y walked up to him, with his second benin
J, him, and said, "Give me this 6ght!" To thi
70 there was no reply. "Give me this fight.
: say!" repeated Heenan; but still there wa
no reply, and the sponge Was not throw
mp. Heenan then drew back and slappe
Sayers in the face with the palm Of his HAND
., knocking him down, when outsiders rushsd i
/: and ended the fight.
J. The same passenger states that when til
is English rushed in to break up the fight, Nj
l. Wilkes called upon the Americans TO see 10
inlay. XherAunnn the latter rushad In An