The Placer herald., 1860-05-19
The Prize Fight.

frmed by the accounts brought by the last
Pony Express on Monday. On the thirty
eighth round, it being evident that Heenan
was furnishing Sayers severely, the ropes
were cut and the crowd broke into the ring.
After this, four other other rounds were
fought, and from accounts Heenan fairly
won the fight, but it seems the Sayers party
will not acknowledge it, and possibly the
men may fight again, to decide the question
of Champio, ship.
A correspondent of the Troy On. W Times
who went to England to see the fight, writes
back an account of the affair, and after de
scribing the departure of the party from Lon
don, the arrival at the place selected for the
fight, the preparation of the ring, and the
appearance of the combatants when ready
for the encounter, says "Heenan was the first
man stripped, rs Sayers had to pull off no
less than three shirts. The Johnny Bulls
couldn't keep in their admiration when the
"Magnesa Boy" as they name him, was un-
covered. They never saw a more perfect
man. His skin fairly sparked in the light, it
was 80 clear and ruddy, and the muscles
which his training had brought out, folded
and punched over in manner that showed
that he had great power indeed. The only
fault found with him by any body was that
he was too narrow across the hips, and that
was the complaint against him at Long
Point. Some Of his friends were afraid that
this would show a lack of endurance but in
the end it proved that their fears were
without any foundation, for he completely
tired out Sayers, who has been believed to
h0x, Il, al -,
living. The "Brighton Boy" lacks some six
inches of coming up to Heenan's measure,
but what there was of him was in the per-
lection of development. His chest was
broad and full, and crowded with muscles.
His arms were ponderous and solid, and the
"bunch of tives" at the end of each looked
like weighty sledge hammers. In the oins
he was more than fairly developed, and the
muscles piled over each other in this part
accounted for his wonderful powers of endu
rance. If he lacked anywhere it was in the
build of his legs, which were not on par
with the rest of him. But all his practice
had been to strengthen his legs-kicking
footballs, climbing ladders, running up and
down hill, swinging in rings, and so on-the
idea being to get so much capacity in his
underpining that he could not be knocked
down. 1t dden't pay in the end, however,
for Heenan proved such powerful striker
that the little game cock had to fall down to
get out of the way of his blows, or else get
knocked clean off his feet Indeed, some
EngIishmen on the ground told me such
powerful hitting had not been seen in Brit
tain in time whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary. | SAW the
fight between IIeenan and Morrissey at
Long Point, and it wasn't show. Sayers
is no such striker as Morrissey, but am in
clined to think that he can stand more ham
mering 1t amt much use to hit Sayers in
the face, for that's as hard as stone.
Heenan had won the fght-this was evil
dent-~n,s -SayArs' friends determined to de-
prive him OF it. Before the men got 10
their corners, after the thirty seventh round,
somebody cut the ropes, and the whole
crowd of vagabonJs and loafers, with the
police, who had quietly looked on for more
than an hour, rushed in. The referee got
up, ordering the men to leave the ring.
But they managed to get at each other
again, and after some sharp exchanges, Hee
nan got Sayers' head under his arm, where
he was pounding him after the manner Of
Tom Hyer, and would have left him sense
less had not the friends of Sayers pulled him
away and kicked and struck him. The next
three rounds ueenan went up and dared his
man TO come out and fight, knocking him
down on each as soon as he Was pushed for
ward. On the forty second round, Heenan
walked up and asked his seconds if they
would throw up the sponge. They replied
by crowding him away, whereupon he went
at them like tiger, a, one blow knocking
down Jim Walsh, and at the next upsetting
Brunton and Sayers, then Strengthening him.
self out for the whole crowd. With great
difficulty Macdonald and Cusic got him
away, when, after calling the crowd to wit
ness that he was the winner Of the fight, he
left the ring, running faster than any who
followed him to the rail road track. saw
him in five minutes, and have been with him
much of the time since. lie was almost As
strong when the fight ended as when it com.
menced. His right eye was closed, but his
left eye was as good as ever, and he hit a
button on Jack Macdonald's coat eight times
in succession.
Sayers was whipped on the twentieth
round, and only fought on pluck after that.
If the ring had not been entered Heeuan
would have left him senseless and out of
time on the thrty-eighth round. Those who
bet at heavy odds on Sayers knew so, and
that WAS why the fight was stopped. The
fuss about the police was all sheer humbug,
as the police had been there from the start.
A fight was never won farer, and every fair
minded man will acknowledge it. 1t is said
that the referee was bribed to leave the ring.
Sayers claims draw, on the ground that
the rounds fought after the referee left were
illegal. This is mean and scurvy dodge.
You put down Heenan as champion of Eng