Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-10
The National and International Event.

The National unu International Events.
The two great events of the sporting world
which are to come off this month--the COM
bat between Heenan and Sayers, and the
Charleston Convention--absorb a large share
of the public attention. Heenan has been
obliged to change his quarters at Salisbury on
account of being too much sought after by
the nobility and gentry, who distracted his
attention from his studies. He is devoting
his mind to his work, and his tutor highly
commends his docility. He follows the rule
which has so often been impressed on the
minds of EARLY to bed and early to
rise'-and will doubtless return to America a
wiser if not better man. His trainer thinks
that the Benicia Boy will be able to stay with
Sayers long enough to make formal inter
change of international courtesies and dis
tingushed consideration. ~r Il
The Little Dug has been neglecting his
training. He does not take kindly to alb
stinence, and will enter the Charleston ring
in bad condition. His hackers rely chiefly
on his skill and perfect familiarity with all
the lodges of the ring, but admit that If he
gets any hard hits in the first few rounds he
will not be able to get his second wind, and
it will be all up with him. The knowing
ones are trying to hedge. Sayers follows
his usual diet and his training consists
chiefly of ten or twelve mile walks, carrying
dumb-bell in each hand, then a bath, and
afterward rubbing down with hair gloves.
He looks forward to the fight with clear
conscience and a resolution to maintain the
honor of his country and Queen,
1t is thought that if Heenan whips the
Upton Slasher, he win, do it in short order,
and by his superior size and weight. He is
six feet one and u half inches in hight, and a
hundred and ninety-four pounds in weight,
while the Upton is but five feet eight inches
in hight, and hundred and fifty pounds in
weight. Benicia is twenty-five years old,
while Sayers is thirty-four. Both are hard
hitters, but the friends of the Champion rely
on his superior skill and experience in the
ring to prolong the encounter longer than
the American visitor will be able to stay.
The Little Giant stands but Eve feet four
inches in hight, and his lungs have been
somewhat strained by singing psalm tunes in
his youth! He shows stout pair ofshoulders
and two heavy lunches Of fves, but he puts
them up like q camp-meeting preacher be-
Sides his legs are inadequate, and his coat
tail too close to the ground, which distin-
guished sporting member, known from his
long silken purse, filled with yellow boys, as
Old Bullion, thought an insurmountable
defect. IN
Many Of the fancy have gone to England
The rest are leaving for Charleston, much to
the apprehension of the inhabitants of that
city of chivalry and hospitality, over which
turkey buzzards are the presiding deities
! The mill at Charleston begins in two week;
from yesterday; the other on the 10th. There
has been some difficulty about the location o.
the Charleston ring that for the international
contest has not yet been chosen. 1t is an
nounced by the last steamer that a, committed
Of freligious gentlemen in London are taking
considerable interest in the affair, and propose
to see that it is properly conducted. Nobody
of any religious tendencies seems to care TO
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