The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25
Gossip about the Fight.

Inc COmO8bduto' "A ouUSCEIpIlOu udS UCCu
started for SAVERS, which will reach $4,000,
or $4,000, 1t will be invested in an annu.
ity. The newspaper agents state that the
sale of papers, containing an account of the
fight, surpassed anything ever known. Du-
ring all the terrible excitement of the Cri-
mean and Indian war no such sale was ever
reached. The capture of Sebastopol, the
relief of Lucknow, the battle of Solferino,
had not such an effect upon the public
mind. The Times sold $4,000 extra copies;
the Morning Post, $4,000 Bells Life, 1l4,-
600; the Sporting Telegraph, 100000 the
Sporting Life, $4,000 Frank Lsslis's, 3d.
600; The Field, 5000; the Era 5000;
the Weekly Times, $4,000; Reynolds, l2O,-
600; Star, 10000.
The authorities have notified the conl-
batants that if fresh contest is attempt
ed, not only will the men be apprehended,
but the principals and their seconds in the
late fight will also be prosecuted" 1t is
doubtful whether there will be another fight
for the belt. SAVERS has been engaged to
come to the United States and give SPAR
ring exhibitions, at $1,000 per month";
HEENAN has also received liberal offers.
I am assured, says the London correspon-
dent of the Manchester Guardian, that the
umpire's decision will be carried out, and
that Sayers and Heenan will meet again.
May they have fair field and no favor, and
may you. correspondent be there to see"
Sayers arm is still painful. 1t seems that
the casing of the large muscle of the FORE
arm is ruptured, and that it will be some
time before this will heal and recover its
tone. Heenan's nose is permanently broad
ened, and Toms sign manual is indelibly i'm.
printed upon his left cheek in a scar very
much in the shape Of an inverted capital L.
A few we'll healed scratches on both heroes
alone remain to tell of their doughty en-
counter. 1t may be interesting, however,
to know that "The Boy" died this day week
of erysipelas in the head-at least some in
genious person said so, and society was con-
vulsed for two hours by the idle rumor.
A characteristic story is told of the Pre-.
mier on the subject Of this fight. Whilst
Sir @. Lewis was assuring the House of
Commons, in sonorous phrases, of the un>
questionable illegality of prize fights, and
the liability to indictment of all who might
witness or encourage them, a sporting mem.
Der was busy in the library collecting a
purse for the Champion. Lord Palmerston
came in, and was instantly arrested by the
collector. " 1 want sovereign for Tom
Sayers," be said. "a sovereign for Savers !"
replied the Premier, splendid fellow! I'll
give you fve." He was told that the SUBJ
scription was limited to one, which he paid
with alacrity. "Ive great pleasure in giv>
ing it," be said heartily, "but l wish you'd
let me make it ive."
Malakoff," the London correspondent of
the N. Y. Times, says:
Tom Sayers had an important advantage
over Heenan, an advantage that certainly
compensated for the difference in the size of
the men, and one which no one seems thus
far to have noticed. Heenan, from his
youth and the very little battering his face
has yet received, is soft, and every blow
Sayers got in swelled him up like a puff
ball, while Sayers, on the contrary, has the
cellular tissue of his face completely consol-
idated by long bruising, so that Heenan's
blows, which were powerful enough to knock
him down with stunning effect, produced no
more swelling of the face than if it had
been marble. A cicatrice cannot be made
to swell, and Toms face is sold cicatrice.
Now it is fact, patent to every one who
saw the fight, that for the last hour Toms
only chance of gaining was in shutting up
Heenan's good eye, and for this hour the
whole fire of the enemy was directed to
that one object. So that if Heenan had
lost the battle it would have been from an
accident to his eye, and thus the result
would have been no test of the two great
qualities essential to prize fighter-endu.
rance and science. It was the constant ex-
clamation of the English during the last
hour of the fght-"Oh, if he could only get
that other eye shut Heenan would be done
for!" But Heenans eye was not going to
shut as rapidly as his enemies hoped for, and
and if Mr.. Bowling had consented to give
him few more minutes fair play, the Cham.
pion would have been knocked out of time.
The London Times made a totally gratui-
tous assertion, intended to cover up the dis
reputable treatment of Heenan, when it de-
cared that the latter was blind by the time
he arrived at the train. The statement is
totally unfounded. The fact that the Say
ers party laid so much stress on the eye is
sufficient evidence that they recognized
Heenan to be otherwise the better man, and
just so soon as it was evident that Heenan's
eye was too long in going shut, and that
Toms pins were growing too timber, was
the ring broken up and the police obeyed.
Heenan fights fair stand up fight for two
hours, in order to show his science and his
endurance, but now he changes his tactics
in order to show how much strength he has
remaining, and to bring the fight to close,
and then the referee takes advantage of
moment of confusion created by the Eng
lish, to withdraw from the fight and to de-
clare it null!
Savers had still another advantage besides
that of bis indurated hide-an advantage,
however, partly derived from this fact. He
wore on his face an impossible and sort of
patronizing smile from beginning to end,
never relaxing once in the midst OF his SPAR
ring, to show of what be was thinking.
This faculty, most remarkable one, is de-
rived partly from long experience in the
ring, and partly from an inability of the
ccatr;1od rouooioo of the face IN norforn,