The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-28
The English Champion.

Tom Sayers can, physically, be best de-
scrlbed, says London correspondent OF
= Porter's SPIRIT by the word E'sturdy." He
stands like rock walks with his launches
on a firm, easy swing; makes you fancy
that "it's no use knocking that chap down
he'll be up again before | can say Jack
Robinson and, like the Titan, stwice as
strong for having kissed his mother earth"
That's where the chief point Of difference
between the rival champions lies. Sayers's
face, when he is out of condition, is large,
and somewhat inclined to be puffy. His
eye is OF the "pig order-small, deep set,
and inscrutable. 1t is most dangerous, be-
cause you cannot understand the bearing of
Its expression. 1t does not intensity in gaze
when he means mischief, and SO give you
warning of the coming auctioneer," but
is the sane-stoical, Observation-Disclosures
when he has just been floored, or the mo-
ment before he propels the terrific right
handler that is to send to grass the unhappy
" candidate who stands before him. Then
fighting never was reduced to such cold
blooded, matter-of- fact science as it has been
by Tom.
From the moment he enters the ring, he
regards his opponent as subject that it
is his duty to dissect. This idea, in the
stolid way it is impressed upon his mind,
never leaves him until he sees the sponge
thrown up by somebody, whether by his
own or the other side it does not matter,
as those who saw his fight with Nat Lang
ham will remember. Such power of self
devotion to- and Commemorative energy upon
a given object, renders him for the time, in
my opinion, invincible You cannot, by
severity ofpunishment, divert his mind from
the one undivided idea and intent of uti-
mate victory; and his body is 80 tough that
You cannot wear that out before YOU have
demOralized the less material part of his or
ganiZetiOn. To beat him an antagonist
must do one of two things-blind him or
stun him. could Nat had science and
strength enough to do the former, and come
off the conqueror. | am told the Benicin
Boy has the requisite amount of sledge- ham
mer in his fists, his fexors, and extensors to
do the latter. We shall see. Tom has been
taken off his pins with rib-roasters" and
"jaw breakers before now; yet be always
managed to shake himself up in the thirty
seconds allowed between rounds, and come
up to the scratch ut the timekeepers call
in rough-and-ready sort of way that was
not to be trified with. In his second fight
with Aaron Jones, for instance, some sport
ing lord (Drumlanrig, | think), offered
Jonesa pretty round GOUcetfr if he would get
first knock-down in a certain indicated
round. Jones, who was plucky as the what $
his-name, went in to earn his money with q
will, and, regardless of consequences, gave
the gentle Tom such straightener on the
side of the neck as not only stretched him
prone, but caused his hackers serious
doubts as to whether he would ever get up
any more. But Jenny Massey spoke up
sharply to him, gave him an extra squeeze
of the sponge, and he woke up somehow,
astonishing everybody around the ring by
his steady march to the scratch. Old
hands exclaimed at the time "By lingo, if
it wouldn't take Hindian club to knock
the sense bout o such cove rs that!'