The Van Buren press., 1860-05-18
Mgistellaug.
The Great Prize Fight.

rounds at forty-two, and after noticing the
interference of the police at round thirty
seven. says, it was plain from the noise
around sayers' corner, that it was the de-
termination of his party to bring the fight
to such close as would save Sayers the
belt; but still Heenan kept to his work"
This treatment was kept up through the
next four rounds, when at "forty- y-two,"
finding that Sayers could not, or would
not rise from his seat in the corner. and that
his seconds refused to award him the victory
that belonged to him by throwing up the
sponge, he advanced upon him in the midst
OF his seconds and struck him whore he sat
Being struck. In return. by some one else in
that corner, he turned upon the other party,
and in his just Indignation at the outra-
geous manner in which the object of his am
bition has been dishonorably wrested from
him, he opened free fight against them
all.
WILKES REMARKs.--The hour at which
we arc obliged to go to press in order to get
our large transatlantic edition ready for
the steamer. and the quantity of matter
which we have been called upon to write
since o'clock this afternoon, precludes US
from the privilege of any extended series of
remarks in this connection. We cannot,
however, avoid taking this opportunity to
say that we deeply regret the proceedings
which the friends Of Sayers adopted to save
him from the loss of his proud title, and at
the same time express our belief that it has
damaged him more to retain the trophy from
a brave and honorable victor in that way
than if he had sustained half a dozen such
defeats as that which was really admins
tered to him on Tuesday last. We have
too good an opinion of him personally to
believe he was in any way party to this
outrage for no one knew better than him
self that he had been fairly encountered,
and that ha never once had chance to win.
Heenan out fought him at every point,
and every unbiased man who saw the fight
will say, without hesitation, that any pre-
tence to match them again, would be regar-
ded as preposterous proposition by any
friend of Sayers.. We hope, moreover, that
he will not consent to go through any new
farce of that description. If tho battle OF
Tuesday was not to him victory, it will be
quite idle for him to contend for one again.
We are sorry that we cannot dwell upon
the subject more at length just now but
let it be sufficient for the present that we
put IN our protest against the base proceed
ings which extricated the beaten champion
of England from the hands of Heenan at
Farnborough, on Tuesday last, and that we
claim in the same connection that John c.
Heenan is rightfully entitled to be consid-
cred. in pugilistic point of view. the cham.
pion Of the world.
Wakes Spirit further SAYS:
AT last, after rally and a close, in which
the combatants hugged each other on the
ropes, and the odds were ten to one on Hee
nan, the crowd broke into tEe ring in q
most rnfiianly manner, under false pre-
tence that the constables We're interfering
Those very constables were on the ground
during half the battle and were averse to
making any attempt at getting in. But the
ruffians, seeing that their man would be
beaten, and their money lost, made the
presence of The police an excuse and stop
ped further proceedings. AT this juncture
the referee quilted his place, most unfortu-
nately leaving all question Of g fair or foul u
without deciding voice. Three rounds
We're fought after his departure, and at the
end OF the thlId the uprOar was tremendous
the ring keepers were unable to keep the
mob back, and the victory which would
in few minutes have been awarded to John
c. Heenan, could not be obtained. The
cowardly mob saw the laurels within his
grasp and tore them from his reach. We
acquit Tom Sayers of any foreknowledge
of their intention.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
New York, May 7.
A report was circulated in London thai
John C. Heenan, had been attacked with
ereysipelas. The latest accounts say thai
the report was without foundation. A let
ter is published in the London Times, from
John c. Heenan, in which he claims the
belt, or requires Tom Sayers to fight him
again at an early day. The letter writer
by Heenan was sent to Bells Life for pub
lication Bells Life refusing to make the
letter public, it subsequently appeared in
the London Times.
The sum of two hundred pounds has beer
subscribed for Heenan by American cap
tains.
WATCH THY FATHER.-The Quakers ar
| in the main as every one knows a thrifty