Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-06

MOrFissey TO FIsht AGain-Their COnn-
dence and COndItion-The Great Interest
and the Vast Amount Of Money to be |
staISed in the forthcoming Mill.
The telegraph has already announced that |
Heenan and Morrissey will fight again, and |
the New York Sunday Mercury gives par
ticulars of the prospective mill, from which |
we extract
Heenan has been ever anxious to press an
other encounter with his old congueror, and |
Morrissey is the one who has held Off
doubtless he has been making too much
money, this summer, to care to leave his
business, and devote two or three months to
severe training. And, at present, It seems
that Heenan's engagement with Messrs.
Wood & Nixon will bind him for two months
longer.
passed, the challenge from Heenan to Nor
b rissey viii positively appear. The sporting
world may look for it by the 10th ofNovem-
Der next. 1t will be Immediately accepted
by Morrissey, and both parties will then go
into active training, although it is true that
even now both men are in training.
By this assertion, we do not mean to say
that they have given themselves up TO those
preparations which are necessary for battle
so toughly contested as this one will be; but
Morrissey, while at Saratoga, has been in the
habit of taking his regular exercise on the
little trotting-course at that place, and has
been for the last three months accompanied
by man who has acted as trainer, and with
whom Morrissey has had, and still does have,
set-to every morning, or at such intervals
as may be convenient.
MoRRIssEY's CONFIDENCE.
In recent conversation at Saratoga, Nor
rissey said he wanted the challenge to come
from Heenan, rs Heenan, having been de-
feated by Morrissey, ought, of course, to
issue the defiance, and, added he, "If you've
got any money to bet on the event. put it on
me, and III win it for you" He continued: :
81 am confident that l can lick this man.
Savers would have licked him easy, if he
had fought him as l shall fight him. He
can't stand body punishment, and l shall
give him my head to hammer away at, while
] make my fighting at his body. / can out
stay him, and I'll win the fight, be sure of
that His hands will go in a little while,
and then can take him as want to-"
Norrissey is full of confidence, and wants
only, as he says, once more to face his old
antagonist on the turf, to teach him that he
| is still his master. Morrissey has many
friends who are equally confident with him.
! self, and who, with him, will stake every
dollar they can raise on the issue of the
fight.
HEENAN's CONDITION.
On the other hand, the friends of Heenan
have the most implicit confidence in their
champion, ard will risk on him every dollar
! they can muster. Heenan himself is in adj
mirable conditions; he has entirely recovered
from the disease that disabled him at Long
Point, and is leading sober and temperate
life. BE does not touch drop of liquor, nc
matter how pressing may be the invitation
of his friends. The constant exercise he ha:
with 0ttignon, Aaron Jones and Ed. Price
| A e IL l.
to the topmost mark of pugilistic science
He learns something every day; for who
could fail to improve under the instruction
of constant experience with the most emf
nent professors of given science that tht
day affords2 He, though always q marvel o
quickness and agility, becomes more ant
more quick and agile every day; his wind il
improved by his constant exercise; and wheI
he steps into the ring to fight Morrissey, h
win prove by far the most formidable antag
onist that veteran pugilist has ever yet pu
up his hands before, In conversation will
friend, few days since, Heenan said; 9Th
next fight won't be short fight. The mex
man that fights me has got to fight me thre
hours"
THE FORMER FIGHT AT LONG POINT.
, In his former fight with Morrissey, Hee
mans only hope was to knock his adversar
out of time in three rounds, for he expressl
stated to his hackers that if he could nc
effect that contamination, he could not wir
He knew that after the first keen struggl
was over, his lack of condition would te
!, fearfully against him, as it proved. Accord
!, ingly, he expended all his energies on tn
first two or three rounds, hoping. to so ia
etun MoIrissey by that tremendous can
7 nonade of blows he administered to his head
, that he would not be able after that time t
face the scratch. Probably no skull in tn
: world, other than Morrissey's, could hav
: received that tremendous pounding, an
, have recovered from it to answer to the ca
of "time." But Morrissey did recover, di
3 answer to the call, and Heenan failed, as b
D had predicted, and the result is known.
THE INTEREST AND MONEY INVOLVED.
D We assure our readers that John O. Heena
E and John Morrissey will positively fight agaiJ
for $4,000 aside, probably in Januar
= next, but certainly not later than the 9th I
! March; death, Sickness Or a disabling acc
dent to either party not intervening.
The combat win transcend in interest an
4 importance any that has taken place
: America, and will scarcely fall short, in il
terest, of the late international fight b'
tween Heenan and Sayers. The amount
n money that win be staked will be som
u thing almost fabulous. Besides the battle
d money, which will probably be advanced
the two -combatants themselves they wi
!. each bet from Sc, 600 to $4,000 on the even
And as the friends of each man are numel
Y Gus and rich, we may safely estimate thu
this great battle will decide the ownership
in this country and England of at least ha
n million Of dollars.