Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-05
The Character of the BnsIish Mob that

brohe the GreuI Will.
An American merchant, who witnessed
the great prize fight, writes thus to the
New York EUening Post.
They were not 'rowdies and roughs' who
broke into the ring and struck and kicked
Heenan, but officers of the army, men about
town, noblemen, and altogether as respect
able body of men in appearance as | ever
saw at any kind of an exhibition. The f3
lOs the price of the railroad tickets, kept all
outsiders away.
had a front seat, and saw the whole from
beginning to end. The interference at the
close was most disgraceful and cowardly,
and Englishmen were, of all others, the last
men, supposed, who could be guilty of such
an outrage. The whole country has been in
sane about this fight ever since my arrival
here, and Sayers is so great pet that don't
believe the people would allow him to be
whipped by any one.
The police were present after the third
round, but never made any demonstration to
break it up, nor entered the ring till the men
were dressing and there were decided symp-
toms of a free fight among these brave En-
glishmen. If Heenan had fought the first
three rounds as he fought the last three, it
would all have been over in twenty minutes.
To give you an idea of his immense strength,
in one of the rounds he took Sayers up
bodily, and threw him on his back as if he
were q bag of meal.
EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE FIGHT AT LIVERPOOL.
The Liverpool correspondent of the London
Star thus writes: "All the papers containing
the accounts of the fight for the champion
ship were rapidly bought up at nearly double
the usual price at Liverpool, the excitement
at the shops of the news agents being greater
than during either the Crimean war or the
Indian mutiny. In the streets many persons
read the papers aloud to groups of eager lis
teners, and the companionship of few fa-
vored individuals who had been at the fight
was eagerly sought for"
EXTENT OF THE RoBBERIEs AT THE PRIZE FIGHT.
A foreign journal says:
The London "swell-nobsmen" never lose
an opportunity of taking advantage of the
slightest excitement to turn it to account,
and prize fight affords peculiar advantages
to them to ply their dishonest calling, SO
that of Wednesday last was looked forward
to with pleasing anticpations. On Tuesday
morning, as the time for the trains from Lon
don Bride approached, two Leicestershire
gentlemen made their appearance, with
tickets in their hands, and inquired the way
to the platform, for which the train for the
fight was about to start. Two "sbarpers" on
the lookout" took the tickets pretending to
look at them, but they no sooner got posses
sion of them than they rushed among the
crowd, leaving their dupes in a state of perfect
bewilderment for though they had travelled
many miles to see the fight, they were de-
prived of the opportunity, as it was too late
then TO obtain other tickets, and they were
left to sleep off their annoyanance.
Persons who have any idea of such scenes
would consider it an extreme act of folly to
take gold watch or other property to prize
fight, but fortunately for the thieves, and I'M
fortunately for the American gentlemen, who
were their chief victims on this occasion,
many of the latter had no conception what
ever of what they had to encounter and the
'roughs" they had to meet, and they took
their watches with them. Some idea may
be formed of the number of robberies that
took place, when it is stated that not less
than eight watches of valuable description
had been stolen from eight gentlemen stop
ping at the same hotel. OF the number, one
was presentation watch, which the owner
would not have lost for one hundred guineas.