New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-02

The Match for the Championship.
INTERESTING LETTERS

"Brds-Eye Fogle," the English correspondent
of Porter's Spirit Of the Times writes from London
the following interesting letter:
LONDON, April G-Dear Spirit have had to give
up my wild goose chase after Heenan as pad |
job. go to Bath to look for him, and find him
magistrates there have signed q warrant for his |
apprehension, and that he has taken refuge In Bed
fordshire. Making up my mind to take quiet trip
down to the locality indicated, news suddenly |
track and goodness and his trainers only know
where, for certainty he is to be found.
This is kind of irritating, tantalzing work, that
no newspaper correspondent can be made equal /
to. Though ] am on the friendliest terms with |
Macdonald, and am one of the last persons in the /
world that the Boy and Cusick would endeavor to I
avoid, yet the constant, secret and rapid changes
Of quarters to which they have been compelled to |
resort, entirely precluded the possibility of my /
being allowed to keep up with their movements I
They haven't known themselves from one hour to |
another where they would next be hunted to, and |
in some instances Jack Macdonald himself {when |
on a run up to London) has only known Of their |
removal by special dispatch acquainting him with
the new whereabouts. Even Mr. Bryant, the Clip |
per's correspondent, personal friend of Heenan
and Falkland, has been several times put in the
dark, and the rest Of the agents Of your enterprs
ing contemporaries are as ignorant as the yeriest
outsiders that can be picked up.
This persistent, malignant chase of the Benicia
Boy is exciting strong comment in all the circles
here. Staunch, old-fashioned sporting men, who
love the Ring for Pugilsms sake, are beginning to
smell a rat, SO they say. They are rapidly com
ing to the conclusion that in the persecution Of
the American there is something more than meets
the eye.
Queer gossip Is going the rounds. Strange hints
and insinuations are heard floating about. Almost
as strange assertions and denunciations openly
and vehemently made. / am sorry again to have
to tell you that the weight Of suspicion Of foul play
in the matter rests upon the shoulders OF the New
York faction, of whose hostility to Heenan you
r1ricE and Of arriu
make no bones about asserting this without hesita
ton or compromise. They 60 so far as to mention
names, and threaten individual vengeance when all
parties shall have returned home to meet once
more ON fair fighting ground Among other re-
ports, is, that Morrissey was privately as much
disappointed at the way Sayers put in his hands, as
Sayers was at the manner in which Morrissey per-
formed the same operation. Such circumstance
would be more than likely. Sayers is a very
| awkward sparrer indeed. He can neither learn
nor teach the theory and science of the manly art.
He fights, and cannot be made to understand how
| to play with his fists. Now, Morrissey and other
yisiters from your side seemed to have been uni
versaly impressed with the idea that Sayers was
miracle of fine science and that he couldn't be got
| at; was impossible to punish, and so forth. Had
they carefully studied the history OF his fights they
would have known better.
They would have seen that on nearly every &C.
casion he received as much, or more, punishment
as he gave throughout the first twothrds Of his
battles; but, being able to stand it better than his
opponents, he stayed longer and was able to
polish them or in the last twenty or thirty minutes
But he has never shown what is called style ar
tistic grace in any of his encounters, and, as said
before, he is mere cypher at sparring exhibit
ton. In set-to with gloves where he would have
to play light, Bob Travers or Jem Mace would
4 sadly take the shine out Of him. IN
4 To return to the rumored consequence of Morris
| sey,s reported disappointment about Sayers. II
is that Morrisseys friends have got frightened al
the odds they have laid, and wouldn't mind squar.
ing matters by an arrest, or new arrangements o.
lza- 6,,r oh hafu hn do off
Some 60 further, and declare that one or two par
ties from New York are so bitter in their personal
enmity towards the Boy that they have resolved
e prevent his having the grailieatIoni q meeting
championship at all. You probably know more
already in regard to this phase than can tell you.
simply give you the correct gossip amongst the
English and American representatives of the ring
now assembled in this great metropolis.
1t does seem rather singular, must confess, to
see Heenan's trail followed with such bloodhound
pertinaety, whilst Sayers in the most public man
t ner takes his breathings on Newmarket Heath
! entirely free from interruption, and with not 3
shadow of a constable to make himself afraid
There would be no need for hunt if there were
! any desire to arrest him. But, for some reason
Q he is allowed to remain safe and nnworried. Thu
t talk about his wisdom in securing quarters wher
he is surrounded bya sporting community, is al
n moonshine. Two of Heenan's fixtures have bee
/ equally well chosen, 1t is more than singular
o worse than singular. If were asked by an III
itiated American the Of the distinction mad
by the authorities, should hesitate and blush 70
is an answer-hesitate to attribute it to the caus
d which you and Heenan himself suggest, and bus
}, to think the accusation of unfairness might b
o fastened on my eountrymen. | do not think tn
II latter likely. Without anything like national egg
IS tism, believe may honestly say that nowhere i
c the world is so much consideration shown to
o foreigner who to contend for native laurel
r as in England The whole progress Of this match
it and the treatment of the Boy prior to the arriva
o of his New York enemies in England, go t
o prove it.
h Savers never made SO many fast friends in hi
s life as John Heenan made during the week b
o stayed in London. The chiyalric manner in whie
he crossed the ocean to contend with the supposed
be inyincible Tom, reused feeling of fayorab1
interest in his behalf amongst class that has lon
it forsworn the prize ring, and all connected with Il
y He was honorably noticed even by The Field,
i paper that before treated pugilism with contempt
Only the smaller fry of the sporting press and tn
, | superannuated fighting sots around taprooms, ha
Il a word to say against him, and their words wer
e as the most publishing kind Of chat. The feelin
r OF the people at large while it expresses the full
s est confidence in Sayers, is of the most friendl
t tendency towards Heenan, and | cannot see il
= deed, where the opposition to him could have com
: from, if not from the quarter that Heenan and hi
s immediate partisans declare it to be.
it cannot give you any actual news whilst thes
warrants and rumors of warrants are the staple o
It intelligence. There is no knowing what day ma
J. bring forth. IL may be a sudden mutual agreemen
It to come to instant conflict; or determination
g further postpone the day of battle; or an drres
y From the latter may the good Genius of Boxin
Il forfend your Champions for the dishonor Of inte
/. fering with him will attach to Englishmen, and the
fears Of Sayers defeat in spite Of the clearest
dence going to fix it upon the men who have bee
the real movers of the schemes inimical to Heena
Yours, BIRDS EYE FoGLE.
4 P. S.-Aprl Tth.-Heenan was arrested yeste
=, day-Good Friday.
= He was caught near Derby-plaee of evil omt
! to pugsts. In Derby jail Pat Gill once languishe
:. for year, and Tom Paddock laid there once fl
= nearly as long time. don't think that any fe
= of Imprisonment need be felt on Heenans accoun
~ though There are plenty of good and true En-
lishmen who viii bail him ont, if his own funds ia
- short, and they can't send him up without bail
- until lie has actually committed breach OF Il
~ peace.
~ But this cont,eteanps will sadly interfere with
!. training. He has already gained some seven
- =, eight pounds upon the point of weight to whit
is Macdonald had reduced him, and the anxiety al
es harrassment to which he has been subjected haN
SC told badly on the general tone of his health. Pc
haps this is the game his enemies think it safest al
most polite to play. y. b. r
- HEESAN Nor TO BE EASILY BRuGGED-A lett
~ from the London reporter of the Clipper narrat
j, the following incident:
in Some of the tayern-keepers OF London are e
r.. eeedingly down on the Boy. They say he is
,e shabby fellow, because, / imagine, he has act
a. like q gentleman, kept himself to himself, and