Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-23
The Last Mill of the BruiSers
The Light Weights" and the Belt.
Another Brutal Exhibition.

WAsHTNGToS, June Washington has
enioyed considerable local excitement to-
| dav, over terrible prize-fght which Oc-
| CURED this morning on the Potomac, twenty
three miles below this city. The sporting
| fraternity Of several Northern and Western
| cities left here at midnight on two steam
boats, accompanied by principals BARNEY
| AARoNs of New York and SAM COLLIER of
| Baltimore. Two or three Congressmen were
aboard and large delegation of journalists
| from the North. The stakes were for $500
a side, but it is believed $4,000 in bets
changed hands. The fight was for the
championship Of the light-weights. AARoNs
is a pugilist Of note, having been victor in
some halEdOzen contests. COLLIER, it will
be remembered, fought HoRATIO BOLSTER,
of New York, near the same place, on the
4th Of Nav, for $500 a side. On that occa-
sion the fight lasted ffty-tiye minutes, with
forty-nine rounds, at the end of which the
seconds of BOLSTER threw up the sponge.
The boats proceeded this morning some
twentythree miles down the river, and made
a landing on the Virginia shore, near Po-
hick creek.
On getting ashore the crowd proceeded
some mile and half inland, where splen-
did place for the fight was found, on by
road between q wood and corn field.
AARoN's fighting weight was l23 pounds,
that Of COLLIER l2j pounds. The first blood
and first knock-down was awarded to AARON's
on the fourth round. AARONs, who is noted
for his activity and maneuyering tactics, re-
sorted occasionally to the drop-down policy
practiced by SAYREs in his fight with HEE-
NAN, but not beyond the rules of the ring.
All the 10th round AARONs began to show
signs of distress and evidently lacked the
powers of endurance of his mere youthful
adversary. The eleventh round he stag
gered visibly, and got into the middle Of the
ring with difficulty, but afterward rallied
and showed himself as active on his feet as
when first he entered the ring. His hands,
however, were pufied up so that he could
not deal effective blows. Through his acti-
vity he succeeded in hitting COLLIER much
hewa5 hit himself; but COLLTER's
powers Of endurance enabled him to pull
through. COLLIER's hands began to swell
early in the fight, and one eye WIS closed |
after the first hour.
Before the close Of the fight, both Of |
AARONS eyes were so nearly closed that he |
was almost blinded, but he persisted in fight |
ing on. 1t was evident, however, to his |
hackers, that his best fighting days were |
over and that he stood no chance with his |
athletic young opponent, who seemed Ca |
pable of standing any amount OF pounding, |
and at the end of the forty-seventh round the
seconds of AARONs threw up the spunge |
the fight having lasted two hours and five
minutes.
Both COLLIER and AARONs were so much
and so nearly blind, at the end of
The fight, that it was requisite to carry them
TO the boats on stretchers. Old pugilists,
who were present, say that this was one of
The hardest contested fights which ever oc-
cured in this country.
On the arrival of the boat in Washington,
.he police arrested the principals and a good
many of the spectators, all of whom are held
or requisition from the Governor of Vir-
ginia. So great is the interest in this fight
hat the staid old National Inteiigencer will
tomorrow publish several columns.