Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-16

sents many points connected with the aiiair IN
new light
Previous to the fight the English did not
complain Of the difference in size Of the two
men. II was considered that Tom Sayers, by
his superior science, his great experience, and
well-known Judgment, would make easy work
of il. But now, since Heenan Is shown TO be
the better man we hear most lAmentable COM
plant from one end Of England to the other,
-and the London Times is the principal echo
of this complaint-that the one was piEmy,
and the other giant Now, Tom Sayers is
not a small man, nor is Jack Heenan giant;
the difference is not at all enormous between
| them, and in many memorable fights In Eng
land the difference has been much greater
Moreover, when Heenan is in position he
stands low; his head was not more than an
inch higher than that of his adversary. But
his arm is an inch longer, and this no doubt
was real advantage In the fght. On the
other hand, 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 70 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
Savers, ON the contrary, has the cellular
tissue Of his face completely consolidated by
long hruising, SO that Heenan's blows which
were powerful enough to knock him down
with stunning effect, produced no more swell
ling of his face than if il had been marble
A cicatrice cannot be made to swell, and
Toms face is a solid cicatrice. Now it Is a
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 il
Heenan had lost the battle it would have been
from an accident to his eye, and thus the re-
suit would have been no test of the two great
qualities essential to a prize fghter-endurance
aud science. II was the constant exclamation
of the English during the last hour Of the
fght-H0h, if he could only get that other
eve shut Heenan would be done for T. But
Heenan's eye was not going to shut as rapidly
as his enimies hoped for, and il Mr.. Bowling
had consented to give him Il few more minutes
fair play, the Champion would have been
knocked out of time. The London Times
made a totally gratuitous assertion, intended
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Heenan, when it declared that the latter was
blind by the time he arrived at the train. The
statement is totally unfOunded. The fact that
Sayers partly laid as much stress on the eye
is sufficient evidence that they recognized
Heenan to be otherwise the better man, and
lust so soon as il was evident that Heenan's
eye was too long in going shut, and that
Toms pins We're 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 a close and then the
referee takes advantage of a moment Of con-
fusion created by the English, to withdraw
from the fight and TO declare it null.
The London Times says that Heenan had
two other advantages, the sun and higher
ground. The latter is an illusion easily ex-
planned, and the sun of England, a great yell
low cheese, never yet hurt any mans eye that
wasn't amaurotic. The meadow chosen for
fight was as level as fooF-if it had not been
it would not have been chosen. Heenan got
the choice of corners and took that which
would put his back to the sun, as he had a
right to do. Heenan, in sparring, stood always
in the same place, some ten feet in advance
of his corner, while his adversary was con-
stantly dodging about the ring. In this way
Heenan trampled space Of several feet diam
ter into a black mud, and then when, as
sometime happened, he was forced back from
this mud to the unbroken sod behind, he had
the appearance of stepping on to higher
ground. But it was mere Illusion of the
eye, and reporter disposed to impartiality
would never have imagined so limsy pre-
text for throwing so important an advantage
against his man. Speaking of the mud, re-
minds me of fact worth nothing, that at the
end of the fight Sayers' breeches were black
with mud, while Heenan's were as white as
when he commenced the mill
Savers had still another advantage beside
that of his 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 he was thinking. This
faculty, a most remarkable one, is derived
partly from long experience in the
ring, and partly from an inability Of
the cicatrized muscles of the face to perform
their ordinary functions. Heenan, on the
contrary, being young, and having perfect
control over the muscular contractors of his
face, allowed his adversary to ''see his hand,
Ito use gamblers phrase and never pre-
pared to give or stop blow without relaxing
from smile to a fixed contractor of the
mouth.
Savers had another advantage over Hee-
nan, and one which actually told on him du-
ring the first hour Of the fight. Heenan was
in strange land; it was the first time he
had ever been brought face to face with a
strange audience and he knew the immense
hostility that prevailed against him. No
sooner had the fight commenced than the
English began their intolerable system of
''chafiing;" each time Sayers got in a blow
there went up yell from the throats of the
1000 Englishmen present which made the
earth fairly quake-a yell so loud and so ter
rible that Heenan several times actually look
ed around in dismay to see what it meant.
Then, when his face began to swell, such
monstrous insults were. rubbed into his
wounds as would have maddened any man
not absolutely fixed in in his resolution to
keep in a good humOr 'No use to bring
that Yankee mp-he can't fghtP' "Now,
look at his mugT o0h, take away your
man away-don't you seehe's blind?" These
were the cries that assailed Heenan from all
sides during the fight, and they were intended
to intimidate and then madden him, in which
case they calculated he would play foul and
loose the fight; for it was reported that he
was irritable and would be likely to loose
temper and play foul. do not pretend to
say that the few Americans in Heenan's cor
ner did not make respectable noise in back
ing their man; but they had such frequent
occasion for their vocal chords in the early
part of the fight, that their voices were soon
extinguished, and then the English had it all
their own way. But notwithstanding his
well sustained command of his temper, Hee-
nan was intimidated and feyerish during the
early part of the fight, as was seen by his
frequently licking his parched lips and de-
manding water.
At first three policemen arrived on the field
and attempted to stop the fight. The leading
one tried to get to the rope at the point where
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