New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-22

From one of Geo. Wilkes latest London letters
to his paper in New York we extract the follow
ing:
1t must now be clear to you, that no one is
better persuaded that Sayers cannot successfully
contend against John Heenan than the Sayers
party and Thomas Sayers himself. said SO in
Sayers' presence, somewhat warmly, the second
night after the fight, and now say SO to you,
not in a whisper, but loud enough to be heard
by the most distant of your readers, that John
C. Heenan is such man as but seldom g comes =
out, and that, left to fight in his own fashion,
there is no man in Great Britain that can at all
compare with him. He can certainly whip two
such men as Tom Sayers in one day; and so he
would have demonstrated on the 18th, had not
Jack Macdonald had two or three hundred dol
lars bet that the fight would last more than an
hour, and in consequence, adhered to a line Of
battle Ono doubt honestly laid ouD adapted to the
winning Of the wager. NO watch was pulled out
to notify him that the hour for such slow policy
had elapsed but, after an hour and half had
been worn away, in admonitions to his eager
pupil of Don't go after him, joint, Kid to
him! q and stLet him come to you'll" it was at
my remonstrance that Macdonald let him loose,
and my report from that period will show how
signal was. the superiority he showed. 9
Had he started off in that way. he would never
have lost the of his right eye, and the crisis for
the interruption of the one hundred to forty bettors
would have arrived in half an hour Sayers him
self said that when he picked up at the end Of
the third round, after receiving Heenans tremen-
dous blow on the head, that he could see neither
ring nor ropes, nor crowd nor seconds, nor any
thing whatever! "A short season of tempestuons
fighting would, from that point, have soon settled
the affair. Ii the men ever meet again, half an
hour will tell the entire story, and less period
than that will in my opinion. be required by Heenan
to dispose Of Hurst, the staleybridge Infant, who
now stands engaged to meet him after the fight
with Sayers. That battle, if it ever takes place,
will be repetition in the way of disparity in size,
Of the affair between Sayers and Heenan, for the
Inf outt 10 caid tn ne n eiUhtpen
he will undoubtedly ghttwo or three stone heavier
than Heenan.
/ shall endeavor to have day set for the new
meeting of the two champions next week, SO you
may look for the letter that will follow this with
no little interest. That matter being fixed. shall
be at liberty to return home as soon as Umpire
stretches himself over the EPSON Downs.
P. S. Let me say here, that what l have said
about Jack Macdonads Wagers upon time, and
his method of directing Heenan in his battle, must
not be understood as rejecting either upon his
Judgment or good faith. He is one of the truest
men in the world, but he found Heenan to be sc
fine in little while after he came into his hands
that he decided he could ontlast Sayers, and bea
| him even at his own game of playing around the
ring. The sequel shows he was correct, and
was but natural that he should be willing to wager
| he was right.
If the fight is to come off again, shall propose
| it take place in Ireland What do you think o
| that? G. W.
1t was confidently rumored in Liverpool at las
accounts that Heenan would visit that town for tn
purpose of receiving from his American friends
substantial recognition Of the manner in which HI
| behaved during the late fight. The AMOUNT sub
scribed in Liverpool for the Boy" is said to reac
upwards of f700-the Americans being well abb
to put down good sum in consequence of tn
enormous amount of money they pocketed in tn
shape of time bets. One American gentleman i
said to have won 100000 and one brewer "a par
tisan of Sayers) is reported to have dropped f5OO
into the poket of cute Yankee.
The London Era claims to have authority TO
stating that arrangements have been made TO
sayers and Heenan to fight again in two month
| time.