The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-08

nan seems stung beyond himself, and, only
waiting till he could draw himself together,
he rushed at King, and in heavy strug-
gle for the fall King was again undermost,
though Heenan struck his head dreadfully.
Savage, apparently, but always grimly
smiling, light, quick and dreadful with his
left, the American again came forth, meet.
ing King. Both hit out wildly, but did
nothing. The pace was getting fearful
now, and the men seemed distressed; yet
still both came forth, and King hit Heenan
SO numerically about the eyes that the
latter closed at once and again flung the
Englishman heavily and fiat upon his
lions, 50 that for a few seconds King
seemed almost paralyzed. Slowly, yet
with show of sang .froid King came to
time, and again, as in the fifth round,
struck Heenan dreadfully in the face,
closed at once, and threw the American a
tremendous back fall This round again
changed the prospect of the fight, which
from this time forward set in steadily
against Heenan. Again the men came
forth from their corners, and now, with
the quickness of lightning, King struck
blow after blow fair and full into Heenan's
battered face, and, seemingly, without an
effort on the part of his opponent to keep
off punishment the very sound of which
made the listeners blood run cold. Sud
denly the American drew back, then made
a rush and threw King under him, but
struck his own head violently against the
round
Again, to the instant, ''time" was called.
Both men rose eagerly, though the pace
was fast and each painted heavily. Still,
they never spared for time, but like two
fierce dogs fell upon each other, King al
ways hitting fearfully about the head of
his antagonist, who, strangely, never, so
to say, tried to parry, but after a few
harmless blows, closed for the throw, and
strove to win by hurting his man to the
ground as heavily as possible. Both SEEM
ed fearfully distressed. 1t was painful to
look at them. King always fell heavily,
but not until he had made his mark upon
the splendid form opposed to him. Hee-
nan was not so much punished as when he
fought with Sayers, but evidently he was
more injured; for on every part of his
body where blows could be struck fairly
livid Jumps had risen over him and lay in
a mass about his neck and throat. His
upper lip, where Sayers had given him
such dreadful wound, had opened again
and seemed to hang in pieces on his face
his eyes were fast closing, and his features
were almost blue Still he was always the
first up to time, forcing the fighting, when
it was evident that King was outstanding
his strength, and how much he had of it
he showed in the twelfth round by giving
the American fearful back fall.
The fight had not lasted half an hour,
and it was evident at glance that it was q
race against nature, in which the English
man, as the youngest, was more likely to
win. King showed little signs of punish
ment, but alarming symptoms of distress
while the American, though badly injured,
was apparently the freshest.
From this time out to the close it was
almost the same in every round, except
once, where the men fought at close quar-
tiers, and, without attempt to guard, hit
full and square into each others faces, till
it was frightful to look upon them as the
blows fell with fat, dull smash, like strik-
ing upon raw meat. At last, all of sud-
den, the American gave King blow which
sent him tottering back like drunken
man, and as Heenan followed up to win
at once, King threw himself down, and it
was well he did SO. But the blow which
he had already get was fearful King
seemed to sicken in his corner, and the
| cry went round that he had lost, and there
was great cheering, discontinue and tu-
multi in the ring, till King, always quiet,
yet always strong, came forth, and with
awful sounds of violence in blows could
be heard dab after dab to hit down the
now bloody and fearfnlly disfgured form
of Heenan to the earth. So it went on
| the sixteenth round, Heenan now covered
with mud and blood, almost blind and
fainting fast.
Up to this point the advantages of the
fight have been upon the side of the Amer
can, although the violence and speed with
which he has fought, falling no less heavily
than his antagonist to the ground at every
other round, having begun to show terri
BILE and exhausting effects upon him. Now.
at the commencement Of the seventeenth
round, there is waver of doubt whether
King may not hold himself well enough
together to outlast Heenan; but this idea
Is abandoned when, at the close, he falls
with such dreadful dead weight that
even while the dull, heavy sound is in
every ear, cry arises that 'the fight is
over" and King can't come to time %
Upon this, the partial rule to which the
spectators have been subject is swept away.
ihey break past their boundaries, tramp
ling over the legs and bodies of quieter or
less active witnesses, and sway backward
and forward in masses, close upon the
ropes, hungry for sight of the defeated
man. No efforts Of the ring keepers can
restore the order. The ring is intact, but
visible only to those bruisers who have
forced their way to the front and whose
!, closely wedged bodies shut out the view