New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-05
An Amerfean Eyewitness o. me tresst
IesS Fight.
LETTER Or "M4EAKoSp !, 70 rHr ). v. gtMl

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| LETTER or i" MALAKoFrst 70 THE n. V. TINES.
The following isfrom the celebrated foreign cor.
| respondent of The N. X. Times, AHalakoa. " Id
witnessed the whole scene. We give that portion
| Of his letter which relates to the fight itself
herewith send Won the official report 81 die
fight as published this afternoon IN an extra 81
Bells Life in London. It is fuller and more tech
nicaI than my own notes. stood next the rfng.
saw the fight from beginning to end, and have
running remarks to make on this report ne END
perhaps aciU not be. had been told BIZ English
men before the fight that there was TOO much
money bet at odds IN favor Of Sayers, for Heenan
to be permitted to gain the contest. English gam
bers are just as desperate ~ any other gamblers,
and in the condition Of speculation in which Hee-
nan went to the field, fair showing was hardly to
be expected: The men appointed To take care Of
bet largely on Sayers, and the whole two thousand
Euglishmen present were yelling furionsy for Say
ers, an old fighter, while chatting Heenan, young
and inexperienced one.
While nothing could be more admirable than the
dep0rsment and skill Of Tom Sayers from the be-
ginning to the end of the fight, pretend to say
that from the end Of the first round to the close,
Heenan showed himself to be the superior mas, al
well in endurance % in strength Of blow and skin.
He was never knocked down once, while he sent
Sayers to the grass fairly about twenty times. In
all ne slsnehed falls took pIaee senan fsa
eres time Jrst, and he did all the attacking, pre-
serving constant smile and showing not only GOOD
humor, but sort Of honest love Of the game.
inc Englishnsen Gil declared that they never s&N
so grit man = for his age, IN ali tueir lives. N
The light had lasted about two hours and had
been thus far conduEted pretty fairly On both Sides
IneTe was not the slightest show 0f during
al this time on either side, and both men ysf
| firm on their pegs and capable OF lighting half 8
long again. Heenan had thc most MARKS because
sayers touched his noddIe Il sweIlsd out Ike puK
| ball. But of the two Heensn had much the most
fight in him. One Of his eyes Was shut, and m
Sayers' hope was to shut the other. Everybody
saw that was his only chance, and all his fire Waa
directed at Heenan's remaining eye. Heenan
being afraid OF this game determined to throw ill
his force into few concluding rounds whchishouid
finish Sayers.
Heenan now went at Savers most terribly, and
succeeded in getting his head into chancery. Id
this position he held him hard against the stake,
within three feet Of where Istocd, and here the
fight would have been ended, II the English had NOT
rushed in and broken up tie ring. Sayers va
black in the face and by the time Heenan would
have finished the round if let alone, Sayers cousdz
not have come TO time. The Eugliah saY that HeeHa
nan was killing him in that position, and they were
right in interfering but the fact Is, that Heen&u
was only trying to throw him, and in doing this his
giant arm was stopping the circulation fn Haysra
was totally sufocated, and the fight would hare
terminated By Sayers not coming to time.
After this there were three rounds fought, III all
of which Heenan had the advantage, and in one of
chancery. Each time Saysrs was much too slow
to the scratch, and il was evident to everybody
that the rest of the fight was Heenan,s. Each time,
too, the ring WAS broken up by the English not.
withstanding the efforts OF the Americans to pre-
serve It. The widest confusion reigned, and It
was evidentto the most stupid lo0ker0n that Hee.
nan was not allowed to gain the money he had
honestly won. sss Nv
AT the end Of these three rounds Heenau again
came to time, and stood in the middle Of the ring
waiting for his man. anxious TO finish the light but
Savers did not come TO time. After waiting half W
minute beyond the call, and Sayers still remaining
| seated, the Americans yelled triumph, and took
away their man. But when they looked for ne
Referee, MFR. Bowling, to obtain his decision for
| their man, he was not to be found BE had with
drawn at the round in which Heenan had held Say
ers so long in chaneery, and in which the ring hd
been broken declaring he would not preside where
| he could not see what was taking place. The
Police also who had intcrfered, ordered him to de-
sist acting as Referee, but this took place before
| the ring was brokenin. Under any circumstances
| however good Mr.. Dowlings excuse may have
been for leaving the place, it must be racolleeted
that it was Sayers friends, the English, who broke
/ up the ring, and rendered the termination Of the
1 fight impossible. Moreover, the Police were not
obeyed, nor the ring broken down, till II was evi
dent that Sayers was a whipped man. 81
| Heenan Is blamed for showing his temper at the
Il close toward Sayers and his seconds But after
i what precedes, the reader will know how 10 ex-
| cuse his momentary forgetfulness