New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-11
The Prize Fight Broken Up by the Prize
Fighting Policeman of Brooklyn.

Hard knocks were the order of the day at
Wiet's Point, Saturday last We do not
intend to elaborate our description of the extra
ordinary scene. 1t was drunken, it was rough, it
was steep, it was fierce, it was laughable, it was
outrageous, it was grotesque, it was bombastic
it was savage, it was failure, and the only fight
ing was done by the peace Makers with their
lignum VITAE cocoa-nut. crackers. 2 8gS
The previous disappointment experienced by the
belligerents only whetted their appetite for set
Element, and consequently on Saturday, gather
ing of upwards of two thousand men crossed the
East river headed by Woods and King, the chiefs,
in order to try their fists at a mill.
Winding the scent of game, the police of Brook
Ign rushed with laudabe enthusiasm to put a stop
to the gentle arrangement. Arriving at Centervile
Course, the array of muscular chivalfy stopped,
and attempted to plant their banners and their
stakes, but were interfered with most unkindiy by
the disguised policemen. who, in ordinary attire,
had mixed with the spectators. A mock turtle
soup fight was got up between two innocent babes,
severally named Donnelly and Thompson, but the
impacable .force y again commanded the peace,
and interfered with the baffied fighters, who now
determined to adjourn the house, and change
the Z. seat of government, to Willetts Point, some
eighteen miles farther up the island.
The procession moved of, q train of carriages
composed the cortege, filled with half drunken
bruisers, who had made previous night of it. and
through sand and other difficulties they wendell
their toilsome way to the proposed scene of con-
fct
In the dim distance followed the famished wolves
of the law, tracking the Mazeppas; and when at
last the spot was found, and the ropes were
stretched, and all was going merry as marriage
bell" when Woods. the squnter, had boldly en-
tered the arena, and magnanimously offered to
draw the fangs from his fighting boots, to meet
the absence of them in the boots Of Mr.. King
when eager eyes looked on, expectant of glori-
Gus mill, when heaven smiled down equally on the
| sinner and the saint 10 down swooping on these
game chickens, behold the hawks their beaks close
filed for combat and their taions ready for arrest.
In prose, the police drew nigh unto the "festive
sports Of june armed with reyolyers in one hand,
and clubs of woeful weight in the other. Woods
stepped out of the ring aud hurried to his carriage
in order to save himself from the hawks assail.
In vain, however, oh CORY glory.seeking man
with the timber name this attempt to dodge the
dodgeless, for fercely breaking in the window Of
the coach, they hauled him ont, raining incessant
blows upon him three or four brave men in Off
cial buttons thugging him with mercess clubs,
knocking the unhappy wight senseless to his mother
earth, from which he could not rise with strength
renewed, like him of the Hydrologic table. and with
broken head, broken arm, (hs auctioneer on
the right side. on which he SO much leaned his
hopes of victory his fingers knocked out Ut joint,
and blood bathing his rough but courageous face,
they dragged him to a conveyance, and there they
placed him by the side Of King, with whom, had
these officials not appeared, he would, at that mo-
ment, have been contending on the green sward of
| the bullies of Waterloo.
The innocent spectators, as well as the compro-
missed sharers in the arrangement of the battle,
were struck and half way murdered In the car
naged zeal of Brooklyn's immortal squad of police
men, and never in the annals Of arrest for any
performed crime of deadly dye, have we heard of
conduct SO unnecessarily ferocieus as that which
turned this common occurrence of prize tight
into an indscrimnate slaughter.
The prisoners were taken to Flushing, where bail
was demanded, and speedily procured aud then
the party returned, each to their separate haunts,
to bind up their wounds, and brood over double
disappointment, and very properly anathamatize
an assault far too severe and totally unnecessary
under the circumstances. 9 =5
We do not wish it to be inferred from what we
have said above, we are committed TO an advocacy
or defense Of the Prize Ring. We abhor it from
the bottom of our hearts, but at the same time we
know that it has been recognized in one shape or
other from time immemoria and we cannot i'm
inc what course can be adopted to put it down
While we would unite in suppressing the ring, we
would insist upon the armed police behaving them
| selves with deceney and humanity.
| [Porter's Spirit of the Times.