Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-08

given against the man whose conquered and
hopeless condition requires the practical in
terpostion of such n sentiment.
In conclusion, wish TO say for myself that
in the haste Of writing my long report the
battle part of which has been published here
in an illustrated extra, few errors crept in
which could not be corrected for that edition,
as had no time allowed me to either revise
my manuscript or read its proof. One OF
these errors was the omission Of the word
"at' in the last line of one of the closing
rounds, when in speaking Of the conduct of
the persons who broke into the ring, IL should
read "they kicked at and struck him" in
stead of clicked and struck him."
send with this corrected COPY of that
report, and If you will lay it before the gem
tleman who prepared your ably-written ac-
count of Wednesday, and he will point out
any errors have made therein, / will cheer
fully correct il for perusal in America
Very truly yours,
GEORGE WILKES.
Adelphi Hotel, London, April 10.
REPLY OF THE REFEREE.
The referee, in his own vindication, has
published the following statement Of how
and in what manner he was conveyed from
the ring;
We have taken some pains to trace out the
actual state of the case MS to the struggle at
the ropes-when we were forced out Of our
place by the crowd-and also ms to the fact
of Heenan's having struck the seconds of
Saycrs after the battle was virtually over,
and we are informed by gentlemen of posi-
ton, who were present, and who had an OPP
portunity of seeing, that once, if not twice,
while Heenan had Tom on the. ropes, the
latter got his knees on the ground, and was
lifted up again by the Boy, and again held in
his vicious grip If this was the case, and
we see not the slightest reason to doubt its
truth, it is a fortunate thing for Heenan that
the referee was prevented from seeing, for
had he witnessed this act he must have un-
questonably decided against Heenan. By
the rules of the ring, man on both knees is
down, and if interfered with after that event
before "time" is called, he is entitled to the
| money. On the other point, we have only
the statement of Macdonald to contradict the
testimony of some twenty or thirty gentle
| men, besides our own reporter, as to Heenan's
| having struck down and kicked Jenny
Welsh and knocked SayeIs off his seconds
| knee.
As to his kicking Brunton the evidence is
| not conclusive, but in the case of Welsh and
the champion we have no doubt, especially
as we are corroborated by the account in
| LesLie's Illustrated Paper alluded to below,
which was written by MIR. Wilkes, of Wilkess s
| Spirit Of the Times. That account says; "Hee-
nan, finding that though Sayers could not, or
would not, rise from his seat in the corner,
and his seconds refused to award him the
victory that belonged to him, by throwing up
the sponge, he advanced upon him in the
midst of his seconds, and struck him where
he sat-" This admission is tantamount to an
acknowledgement of defeat by foul blow;
and yet Mr.. Wilkes calls on every impartial
| Englishman to award the belt to Heenan.
Our own opinion of the matter is this-that
| as the men were fighting in crowd, without
any order or regularity, and as Heenan was
| almost blind, and his noddle was doubtless in
a state of considerable confusion, he did moi
| quite know what he was about, and may
therefore, be excused for the unjustfiable act
Nevertheless, had the referee been present, he
would have had to do his duty, and no one
would have more regretted this than himself
We omitted altogether to state that the
referee was only enabled to approach the
ring-after being driven through the
efforts of some of Heenan's friends.