Gazette and sentinel., 1860-05-05
The Great Fight for the Champion


The report of this affair, says the
Crescent, which we copy from Bells
Life in London, is clearly enough strong
" biased in favor Of the late English
champion. According to the account Of
another London Journal, Sayers suffered
himself to be knocked down cleanIy
and completely some twenty odd times
in the course Of the desperate combat,
and in every other round save one was
either thrown or went down voluntarily.
Had not the friends and hackers of the
" little Englishmam" clearly perceived
that he was about to loose the battle,
they certainly would not have broken
into the ring and put a stop to the in
teresting performance, IS they well
knew that such an act would be loudly
condemned on all sides. In no other
account of the fight that we have seen,
except in the II we publish, Is any
thing said of interference by the police,
upon which so much stress is laid ; yet.
probably this report gives a better gen
eral idea of the whole affair than the
others, those of the New York sporting
papers not having yet come to hand.
In the y. Y. Evening Post We find the
following:
A passenger on the Vanderbilt, who
witnessed the fight, gives the following
account of the closing cenes ::
"On the last call of time, Heenan
came up promptly, and the referee left.
Savers was not up to time, but was sit
ting on the knee of his second. Heen-
an, after waiting for him, walked up to
him, with his second behind him and
said, Give me tins fight = To this
there was no reply. Give me this
fight, | say = repeated Hccnan tut
still there was no reply, and the sponge
was not thrown up. |Iiecuan then drew
back and slapped Savers in the face
with the palm of his hand, knocking
him down, when outsiders rushed in and
ended the fight"
The same passenger states that when
the English rushed in To break up the
fight, Mr.. Wilkes called upon the Amcri-
cans To see fair play, ~whcrcupon the
latter rushed in and cleared the ring Of
the English in a moment, striking from
the shoulder.
There are various rumors afloat. and
o.,.,. 1+I,r, .hnt h,.rf-,,- .,-h., I.l
heavy bets on Savers, was the first man
to break through the ring.
Mr.. Wilkes, also a friend Of Savers,
in his account of the fight. says "Hee-
nan out-tought him at every point, and
every unbiased mar who saw the fight
will say, without hesitation, that any
! prctenre to match them again would be
regarded as a preposterous proposition
by any friend of Savers. x = \
We claim that John C. Heenan is right
fully entitled to be considered, in a pu-
gilistic point Of view, the champion of
the world"
As to tbs disposition Of bets in the
present position of the result there is
of course much discussion everywhere.
According to the following rule, author
lied by the English Pugilistic Bcnevo-
lent Association, bets in such cases are
not drawn, as will be seen
Rule 30. Should the fight not be de-
cided on the day, all bets instead of be-
ing drawn, shall be put together and
divided unless the fight shall be resumed
the same week, between Sunday and
Sunday, in which case the bets shall
stand and be decided by the event.
Betting people will, therefore, anxi-
ously await further advices.