The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-10-09
GREAT CANINE CONTEST.
Heavyweight Dog Fight for $1,000
and the Championship.
BRANDY" VS.. TYLER" OF NEW YORK.
The Pit Located In New Jersey s'iBrandy''
the Winner IN Two Hours and
Sixteen Minutes.

O'Clock yesterday morning from the foot OF Forty
second street TO Wcehawken, carried large number
OF men OF peculiarly forbidding aspect Other boats,
leaving at intervals from that time until noon. bore
crowds to JOIN the first party and occasionally car
riages and light open tr0tting wagons skirted the
borders Of the river from Jersey City northward.
The single street OF Weehawken, leading to the
river, was filed till nearly eleven O'Clock with
knots Of men talking with and shouting at one
another In way that was too obscene and pro:ane
for repetition let alone for publication. They were
on their way to witness dog fight for the heavy
weight championship and s., 900, and expectation
OF the ugly spectacle brought Satanic radiance
to their brutal physiognomes and seemed to 1ll
them with an nhuman delight.
TIE SCENE OF THE SPECTACLE.
A few hundred yards from the rivers edge, and
backed by the high bluff blasted to perpendicular
wall. stands dtapidated two story building, once
white but now defaced, and stained as much by
contact with It's requenters as by the action Of the
destroying elements OF higher nature. Adjoining
this building and extending some sixty feet to the
northward is a low shanty-like structure, white.
washed inside and out and pierced with low
small windows, to which are affixed iron screens
The lower floor OF the two story edidce is barroom
On the edge of the bluff, little way or is a
stone crushing mill, where, from early morning
till late at night, brawny industriously at
work. Standing here with the sounds of cheerful
labor falling on the ear, one looks away over
the river, peacefully and slvery In the sunlight, to
the great throne OF commerce beyond, and the
world seems very good ana very pleasant in its
earnest striving Tor human advancement.
THE CHARACTERS PRESENT.
Scores Of men, with great ugly Jaws, crushed and
staggering about vomiting Oaths and scurrility.
Many Of them are nashly. dressed and wear an
aggressive, tnsolent air. Mingling with these are
hundred or more young men, old men and boys,
Of class that may be met with any morning in
the various Police Courts Of the city. They
as happened to come in their way
and exhibit abundant evidence OF poverty. Many
OF them thieves junkies of the river ana night
prowlers, who are attending the dog light for the
purpose OF increasing their brutal disregard of
nerves to scenes or blood and slaughter. At lit
tie distance from the principal gathering several
Well-knOWn saloon Keepers and an Alderman or the
city Of New York chatting and laughing
IN THE DOG PIT.
Two hacks drive up from down the river, and
moment after their occupants descending bring
blanketed. At little distance the dogs which arc
belonging to man named Marshall, and .sTyler,s
light. The The 'V crowd at once sarges towards a
the dogs, to inspect their appearance and
condition, but they are Instantly taken into the
scales, when Brandy Is found to weigh thirty-fye
pounds and Tyler thirty-two pounds. Half an hour
q
nounced as referee and leads the way TO the low
whitewashed shed and the pit formed there. This
half leet In height and arranged in the form OF a
circle OF q dozen feet diameter. with corners
formed OF short partitions across each OF It's four
quarters.
THE FIRST BETTING.
At precisely eleven O'Clock time Is called by
Mclaughlin, and the dogs having been Invested OF
their blankets and washed are unmuzzled in the
ring. The crowd SIX deep, about the pit-the FIRST
row crouching, with their faces close to its edge,
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freely made to bet 500 to SO on Tyler.
& being h saPa ssa asv w va
have never witnessed dog fight are all, strangely
fierce, nervous air. He has more flesh than his an
tagonist, on weighing him, by three pounds, but he
has also more apparent vigor and dash.
THE FIRST 'scRArCn."
"Brandy" darts out towards "Tyler's" corner and
the dogs meet and parry moment. and, the former
quick and active, the latter stubborn, slow and
plncky, they battle with varying success. The ma
jority Of the crowd, eagerly watching the chewing
and shoulders, cry out the fortune OF the strug-
gle wayers sautng each other In vulgar phrases
nna %h WIFI A eans and to in
the death Of Brandy a frightlu stencil
comes up from the pit, mingled with the whiskey-
on. After an hour and twenty minutes the first
scratch is over. and two or three heavy betters
great odds offered on Brandy" and have driven
back to New York, not caring TO witness more OF
the disgusting spectacle
THE SECOND AND THE THIRD SCRATCHES
The dogs came to the scratch when time was
called, and as the fight went on the betting became
more even. Towards the last of the second scratch
Tyler showed how much he had suffered IRON
the fangs Of bis opponent, who was likewise weak
and almost blind But lp the third scratch ''Tyler
lay extended upon the floor half the time,
with neck stretched out and limbs writing and
brandy" staggered, bracng himself up on his legs
near him, and when famed by his trainers hat and
ard ut chi "a
antagonists throat in his fangs, munching and
choking him. Bets were even now offered OF $40
to $50 on Brandy" Tyler's owner was offered SIS
for the dog; but he said, "No; he will either
have to win the fight or dep 0IIe's
too good dog to be killed that wavlv
"Give up the fight and save your dog I" damn
him, let him die ~ were the EXPLANATIONS that ran
round among the crowd OF two hundred roughs
The call or ''time" for the fourth "scratch' was
made, and Brandy" started ont, while .rylern
turned ana retreated staggering TO his corner,
where he dropped down. too weak to stand. so
Tyler lost the light, which lasted two hours and
sixteen minutes.
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