The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-09-15

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se'r worry erect and IN mastery attitude, NJ eh SD 80
% gctt advaui g. his wonderful muscular fage0Hmoe
ADD his primo condition.
0ulSG 10 woRK-AN ivrgHiuJprieM
The Hrht begon, Il il cled be called GGhi CO.
doieed ana shikcd and uogea Al acc word MOI siau
his ground, trie1 " get rtund his opponent. ana ~
three tuli minutes tented n way aud with pert,
ina. sorey tired me 2aience q The ~ org When Mas
Vas approaching him 70 deliver blow lie doubled CTR ei
thai his was his game, but : sit was hoi ghloc
nsa ,i Se ond q the three mIuule I'D beige ether MAJ
.na crowd had moments ar -ument, broke tho crcl
ana entered the ring The combaants putting thci
Tor police nas very courteous, but equally irm, an,
mere was nothing for u but 10 tnc rug and dec
the hsht-a matter which goody number or tho spec
taors loudly had been tho object Of tbo neon
prchensibe delay 1t was strange and striking exam
pe o. me res, oct borne by even The worst
claSses OF hngHhmcn to the esty or tho Inv, tta
these three or four policemen able, by their mere
appearance upon the scene 10 disperss such rough
crowd, any haf dozen Of which could have torn them
limb from limb.
THE ROPES coiLED.
me light was postponed indefinitely, the stakes were
drawn and the ropos cooled up. The crowd LEFT the field
and returned to tho railway station, whence after de-
lay OF nearly hours special Thorn back
70 London, amid the muttered curses Of tho roughs
s'their uck.o
NEW FIELD SOUGHT AND FOUND.
On the arrival at Paddngt0n IL became known that
inc competitors had agreed TO start at for Pureo
by the fenchurch street line Accordingly tho pugists
but the train they meant catch had gone. and IL
not uni half past two that the crowd which had been
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increased at Fenchurch street, got away extra
ordinarily long train for the quarres at Purlesl. II
reached INC station here at few minutes before four
and then appeared that not the Essex but on the
kentisa shore the battle was to of. But how to
got across The river WAS the question There wore only
three Wineries available the transport OF the six or
seven hundred people who wanted to But there
dstant the one policeman q Purleet had already sent
for ssstance the Essex police woud probably give
o4 s speydV d nss moth
SO Mace aud his hackers crossed In one wherry Goss
and his companionS in another the referee third
and short no after reaching the Kentsh shore the
ring formed close TO Long Reach Tavern, and the
Pgsts again stripped and set to work, protected from
view by the ombankment which here keeps Thames
from Overlooking the marshes. The wherres made
constant passages backwards and forwards, and
a1od an a. hour , they had some three hun
two hundred or three hundred left in Purdeet
many Of whom had expended two, three, -four,
five or six pounds to the fight, and nothing what
ever OF IL after ALL The boatmen reaped rich harvest
at utterly preposterous the preposterous
that they crowded fifteen twenty people into wherry
licensed for eight to the imminent peril their lives
But what are lives when balanced against hafcrownsp
The fight was scarcely worthy of the pane. II was
lodging on side and dignihed nonchaance, not
From the very srst Goss recommended h,s Wootron
bassett tactics He would not stand up to Maco He
and worked all tho muscles in his back than take
blow from Mace He evidently feared that sEodgeham
mer ast. he eve. would run round the ring and Try !
might have done. He would next pretend 10 make
stand and deliver blow. and when Mace was |
ready would Slrm-there other werd tout OF
his adversarys REACH amid the cheers his friends and
the Kisses and groans OF everybody else It might have
been bis game as mis- advocates repeated but beg
say again that It certainly was not lighting.
Nearly hair an hour wasted by this mmeuvring Of.
Goss in the first two rounds
In the fourth he managed 10 plant good hit Mace's
eye, which Immediately closed.
In the succeeding rounds Mace sent him to tho
ground frequently and he Mace twice. but there
was, at least on Gcss part, no fighting OF which an
average schoolboy would not be thoroughly ashamed
Mace the twelfth round showed LILLE Sign Of punish
ment and G0ss not much worse, though he had q
deep cut over his left eve and another on the right
his mouth as well as one or two bruises on tie body
Mace renamed PERFECTLY cool and collected while Qoss
was evidently wearing himself out by his stupid.
lodging
Mace generally FIRST up to time, and after the
twelfth roundit was evidcpuy an efcrt-athough always
smiling 3ne-or Goss To- get up and meet him. But he
hackers would induce him TO 90 and meet Maces
fist Yet To hear hS friends shout, one would have
thought That there meyer had been seen such fighting
IN thesxteonth Isaud Mace. apparen. to every
his oppousn Tho ' latter wormed the ring
Mace conthntsd himself with resting his hands on his
sti more parent contempt in the round folded
his arms ecpng ready all the time to meet Gosss fen:s
tho ssy n q % this round 1:i' both eIl
rne eighteenth and last round, Goss again trying his
rs rant upper Jaw blow which, in two senses, was
Thousand FOUNDER The crush could be heard I'VE or
Goss fel on his forehead nsensble and apparently
dead and FOR nearly i've minutes the utmost enorts Of
his hackers could not restore MIN.
The sponge was thrown up IN acknowledgment 9! Goas
defeat Mnce hackers In their ubilaton won't 50 far
kiss their champion who proceeded as quickly as
the embarrassing Of the crowd would permit
to don his Clothes looking very little worse after his
hundred minutes ash, than he had done when no strip
' lFrom the London Iimes, Sept. 9.
1t was i've minutes TO Ave in the afternoon before the
men had again taken their places In the ring.
In the first rather the second round, Mace tried to
force oss into Tue latter succeeded, however,
in dealing bis anita gonst with his left the eye,
/ vrhf hrou Ia Exchanges
OF Mace GoSs retreated and 10 so dong fe so
In the next both men came up eagerly. After good
deal OF sparrng which lasted twenty six minutes, Mace
made close quarters, but his feet slipped and
In the fourth round Mace dealt Goss blow which
4 knocked him down. lhe round lasted thirty Ave min.
ut9s..
In the next struggle both fell aid rolled side by
side Mace was W s!it eng !hs aRh,,ns which ensued
4 m round seven Goss went down again.
Both fell in the next round, Goss under, and In that
which followed the latter was forced to the ropes,
where, after stiff wrestling both went down again,
In round the tenth Mace deal, his antagonist heavy
| blow on the LETT eve, and both went down
| In round eleven Mace brought down Goss.
In rounds twelve and thirteen, however, Goss threw
his antagonist and fell on him. still keeping bis hold
Whine on the ground.
In rounds loureen aud fifteen Goss fell in cndcavoring
| to get away
In round sixteen he feted to the ground.
In round seventeen both men fell but in eighteen blow
the again Frustrated Goss.
Tue Inst round was tedious one leithanded blow
the and right handed the Jaw FRUSTRATED
toss, who tell with his head doubled up
| state OF insensiblity
Mace then advanced to the referee and called out
"Havc won, SIR" upon which ho that the
| stakes were bis.
e The company then returned to London, chiefly by
| the hartford route
REMARKS.
There are some things very remarkable about th,
Gght and not the least OF them is that II begun
tho middle Of wiltshire, more than eighty miles from
London and finished IN Kent twenty miles from London
the opposite direction. Such thing would have beer
impossible within the memory of all OF such thing
phenomenal even In these days Next, the disparity o
the men Is notable Even Mace the outset evidently
overrated his opponent who was ~ no his match
aud would not have fought so long had he tough
with fewer lodges Again, the obvious decline OF III,
character % the patronage extended to the prize RUG
shown by this eight which, notwithstanding tho interest
felt II Throughout the sporting world, attended b,
very few recognized position for the "swcls were
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