The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-23
Eow MACE WHIPPED ALLEN.

| honor and so rare delicacy.
HoW MACE WHIPPED ALLEN.
First-class Fist Work-The Prominent
Features of the Battle, &C., SC.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial thus describes the recent remarkable prize
fight near New Orleans:
The morning was lovely with its uncouded
sl,v and early GOODNESS. The excursion train
| left New Orleans shortly after O'Clock, and
rolling twelve miles along the Jackson road,
across long stretches of open country cut up
by the beautiful level shell roads, and through
cypress woods, where the mocking birds were
| in pleasant contrast to the SON e dropping Of
the Spanish moss. A stop was made only four
miles out of New Orleans witha view to pitch
Ing the ring there, but as that was found
| to be still within the Jurisdiction of the
city authorities, the train moved on
to the Kenner place, followed BY o
dummy" in. which were the lighters and
ground was march of half mile, along
road through the plantation, and through an
atmosphere rank with the delicious odor of the
| magnolia. Half hundred blacks Of both
sexes had commenced work in the fields. They
stopped, Of course, and gazed with wonder at
the crowd, and when what was up became
known to them, the men speedily embarrassed
the mules. mounted them, two and three to an
| animal, and galloped after. The blacks had an
| opportunity Of not only witnessing the fight,
but earning an honest penny, the women in
selling corn bread and coffee and the little
ones in dishing out water at picayune glass.
The battle-ground was on the Oakland place,
! long the property, before the war, of the Ken
ner family, and one of the grandest Of Louisi-
ana's many grand old sugar plantations. The
ring was pitched in front of the sugar-house,
at the end of the negro quarters. The propri-
etor sauntered down through the grove of
corn trees from the old mansion, fast going
looking advance guard, headed by John G.
Heenan, saw there was nothing to be gained
\ by any objections, and Immediately consented
that the fight should take place there, simply
requesting that they should not disturb his
property It remained for Allen to come over
| here and whip some of our so-called cham
pion fighters, to show Us what could be done
| fight; and then for Mace to give us some idea Of
| hrst-class fist work. In reality only those in
| this country who had seen Sayers, King and
Mace fight In England, have had any idea all
along Of what could be done by Mace, the
master, when he should face any fighter on
placed any reliance whatever on their judg-
ment, stood ready to bet at odds that Mace
| would serve Allen as he has served him.
The fight showed Mace towering genius
! inside the ropes, trained to the point of per-
fection, with more schools OF lighting IN his
head than all the fighters Of this country COM
bined had ever dreamed OF. man whose face
could not be touched, and whose hands and
forearms were always ready to anticipate al
most any character OF blow; wrestler who
could fall when it was necessary, and yet bring
showed Mace general who could stand his
opponent off all the time, lead at pleasure, pro-
woke counter, and yet keep his right fist al
ways in reserve. 1t Is believed that Mace was
afraid to strike Allen with his right, or to use
it often, save In stopping blows, because that
would have given the latter chance to rough
it may, Mace had no occasion to throw his
right out often. He was whipping his man
surely, and speedily enough, and that was suf-
fcient for each round After the second
round Aliens eyes were in bad way, the
right rapidly closing. and the left sure
long fight. All this time Mace didn't
object to taking the sun In his eyes, al
though he had the choice of corners. AS they
came up to the scratch each time, he allowed
Allen to force him to face the sun, because, as
he did so, Aliens eyes were sure TO catch the
little air that was stirring, and thus close the
more rapidly. In only one thing In the fight
was Mace frustrated. he wanted very much
to hit Aliens nose and latten it out; but Allen
was equally determined that he should not,
and managed to stop or divert every blow
aimed for that object Mace could have struck
Allen many more blows than he did, had he
not feared Aliens body punches. Early in the
fight, Allen put these in so strong ana iast'
that Mace was twice made to gasp for breath.
and when the battle was ended Mace showed
his fore-arms all black and blue from the force
Of those blows that he had stopped. Several
he stopped with his right hand and arm rest
ing on his stomach, and 1t was to two of these
blows that Jerry Donovan, one OF Mace's sec
onds, cried "Foul," when Mace himself
didn't seem TO think there was any any io4i.
The only remarkable events Of this fight
were in the second, fifth and tenth rounds.
1t was in the second round : that the
most terrible blow of the battle was struck.
when Mace put his left bang against Aliens
right eye The blow must have been square
on the eye, for 1t made Allen wild. In the
rush that he made for Mace then,, he missed
him BY two feet, whirled around threw his
right hand up to the eye, thought the eye was
''Sonen forever, uttered an "0h !" and drop
ped. In the fifth round Mace got Aliens head
under his right arm and punched him five
times in the face before Allen could squirm
down and catch him for throw; and then
when Mace fell he still held Aliens head and
neck, and as Aliens body and legs went into
the air. the top of his head struck the ground
with Mace's arm still around 1t, and shud-
der went through thousand men with the
idea that Aliens neck was broken. And it
was remarkable, indeed, that he escaped short
of that The conclusion OF the battle was
similar fall by which the muscles of Aliens
right shoulder were so paralyzed that for
tWenty-four hours after he had no use of his
arm. Mace was trained to perfection. His dark
skin seemed as tough as sole-leather, and
the brown cuticles Of his face could have stood
as much cutting as Aliens received without
third the swelling. That Allen was not very
good condition was shown by the pulling OF
his face whenever it was cut. Had Mace had
few more rounds al him his face would have
been q blood-pudding and his sight would have
been gone-barring an out-of-time blow, Of
course. If the fight had been close, Allen
would have been at disadvantage in the hand
ling. His seconds acted very clumsg, and
seemed incapable entirely Of giving him any
advice. Cusick and Donovan, on the contrary,
knew their business In handling their man.
and Cusick, one OF the best posted men in the
country, was fnl Of good suggestions ii Mace
had needed them, which he didn't. The
crowd around the ring was. IN the majority.
respectable. It was quiet picnic party, with
a general disposition to have perfectly fair
fight, and with the sympathy largely in favor