The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-02
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y The New York rspers ofSsturdsy con-
tain more extended accounts Of The great
international bull dog fight They are
shocking in thsir brutality. The follow
ing extracts from the London Timss will
show what a. low condition Of public
morals there is in Easlsnd when such
brutal displaJs are wipked by the au
thorities:
"Again the men came firth from their
corners, and now, with the q1ickucss Of
light1iug, King struck blow after blow
far sud tuIl into Heensn's battered
face, and seemiuglY, without an effort
on the psrt of his opponent 10 keep Of
punishment The very soand of which
made the listeners blGod run cold. Sud
denly TIE American drew back, then
made s rush and threw Kiag under him,
bat struck his own head violently against
tie ground. Again, 70 The instant,
"Time" vas called; bsth men rose esq
erlF, though the pace was fast, and
each painted heavily. SiE, they never
spared for time, but like. two fercs dogs
fell upon each other, King always hitting
feRrluliy sS0ut the head Of his a1tago-
mist, who, strangely, never, 50 TO cay, tried
TO parry, but after few harmless
blows closed for the throw, and strovs to
win bT hurting his man to the ground a.
heavily IS possible. Both seemed fsarfal-
.Iy distressed II Wss painful 70 look al
tte1p. King always fell heavily, but not
till he had made his mark upon the splen-
diopfoTm opposed TO him. Heenza was
not SO much punished IS ghenhe fought
viii Sayers, but evidently he was mere
iejered, Tor on every part Of his body
where blows could be sruc" fairly the
lFid Jumps had risen over .him and lay
in a MSS about bis neck and throat
His upper lip, where Sayers gave him
such q dreadful wound, hsd Opened
agsiu, seemed to hang in pieces on his
face; his eyes weEe fast closing and his
features were almost blue. Sill no
was always frst up to time, forcing
the fzhting when it was evident that
King was husbanding his strength, and
how much he had of1tte showed in the
twelfth round by giving the American a
arfal back-fsll. The fight had now last
ed half an hour, and it was evident at
glance thatit was . race against nature,
In which the EnQ!ishDaD, as the young.
est, was the more likely to WiD. King
showed little signs Of punishment, but
alarming symptoms Of distress, whih
the Amsriesn, though badly injured, was
apparently the freshest. From this time
out 10 the close it was Amos the
same in every round, except Gnce, where
the men fought At close qasrters, aBd
without an attempt to guard, hit fall
and equ2re into. each Others faces,
til it was frigbtfal 10 look upon themss
the blsws fell with 3 fat dull sussh,
like striking upon raw meat. Atiast. all
of q sudden, the American gave King q
a blow which sent him tOtiering back
like drunken man, ahd as Heenan fol-
lowed up to win at once, King threw
. himself down, and it was we'll did so.
Bat the bloz which he had already got
was fearful King seemed to sicken in his
corner and the cry went routd that be
had lost, and there was great cheering,
diecomfort, aud tumult in the ring, till
King, always quiet, yet always strong,
came forth and with awful SQUADS Of
violence in ble We could hs heard dab af-
ter dab to bit down the now bloody and
fesrfully disfguJed form of Heensn TO
the earth. So il vent on TO the sixseenth
round, Heenan nowc overed with mud and
blood, almost blind, snd f9ilipg fast
But il is presently evident that the her
sldings of Kings defsst were premGuTe,
f0r above The heads Il all the bysisHdsrs
the tgo gogigsniic naked forms, urged By
their secOnds, are sgain seen 70 approach
each Oihsr, and amid louder and more ex-
ultsnt csies the contest is renewed with
unAhatsd ferocisy and keeBness. Iiis de-
clared-Uith what accuracy IL is impOssi-
hls at the memqnt 70 discoFer-thst KIM
has vita dilli.atY been restored in time
fer the 1874 round, and that Keenan,,
counting nov upon aTeasy eenq7esi, is be
coming wildly incsotious, ana she event
would seen justify this 8tstsnsnt, for,
Wi,hA mere cruel and resBGnding blow
tksn any yet delivered Kings PoHeEful
Est falls ful. in the Americans face, and,
closing with him, ne dEsaes him te the
esrlh, aImot iaseRsib.e. From tais mo-
ment it is known and admitted Hsonaa
has lost the fight, and ia to TOands i'm
mediately following The snpeFior en-
dursnce and youth Of TIE Engiishman
enable him 70 DWsus bis success Wiih
tremendous rapidly, Hardly could the
American appear upon his groand--
where It must be sale, he presented
himself with undEiRe pluek t. ihe end
--r1shed Gown in his all-powerful grips.
His fAes sosn became fs5gbtful spec
tsele, although far less hideous than af
the Gloss Of his battle vita Savers. A.
last even The dull and opaqas hum mites
Of bis friends were strred, and after
another mereilefs round, in which the
falling strength Of the great giadistor
was no longer cspzble-Oi sfording bin 3
shadow OF q Tense, he was, 81 The close
Of the twenty fourth round, withdraw