Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-22


lclrh5AdeU, buiknecked EnElsrM&n Ha IS
small. stocky and solid. lie. las boxed since
ne ives four years old, comes Of hghting
great ferociousness and bloody result. He is
said 70 be able to take more punishment than
any other man in the ring. He certainly got
lot OF u last night, and was not killed, though
ne looked very much as if he wished himself
dead several times. The agreement was in
one sense, all in Wilson'S favor. He had all to
gain and practically nothing TO loose snlli-
van agreed to give him 81 900 and one-haR the
money taken in at the door if he CWilson)
could stand up before him for four rounds,
Marquis OF Queensbury rules If Sullivan
knocked him out so that he was too weak to
stand up for the fifth round Sui
Ivan was winner. but If Wilson should
be able to stand up for the fifth
round, no matter how feeble he might be; the
money all went to him. Sullivan took all the
risk, and he fought ike Trojan to win
When the men faced each other the vast
multitude almost stopped breathing. They
looked like mighty sladiators. Huge lunches
of muscle, and great breadth and depth of
chest Heads that sat on necks Of immense
SIZE, and legs built up from the feet with the
frmneSs Of iron They shook hands and fell
toto position, Before Sullivan could get his
hands up Wilson Sprang from the hips
with both hands half out. and slipped
a stunning blow in on Sullivans nose.
Sullivan leaned back almost TO
q crouching position and Sprang forward like
shot, at the same time letting out bis right
arm. Wilson has been in many bloody fights
and is champion pugilist of England, but he
coulu no more stop that blow than he could
stop locomotive. He threw up his arm. but
Sulllvan's terrible fist crashed by his guard as
though il were an infants and landed on the
Enghshman face and neck. Wilson didn't
stagger or fall, he simply shot to the earth eS
though he had been struck by a Ncyclone He
landed with thud that was almost sickenino
and lay quite still for a few seconds, aud then
staggered blndly to his fe-t and reele1
to the scratch from the force Cf
his nature, which gained him the name
/ OF Tug" He never gives up. When
he got fairly on his legs with the first
CLEAN of the bull dog pertinacity on his face,
| Sullivan saw that he had hard road to travel,
| and went at it with terrific force. Once more
his terrible right arm went out and again VIII
son went to the floor like a shot with every
gigantic bone in his body shaking but he stag
| gered up again only TO receive more OF the
| singing blows. He went to earth eleven times
| from the blows of the ung giant, end when
| the two minutes allowed for the round were
ended he fell into his seat looking more dead
than alive, and painting as though half suffo-
| Gated He was spOnged and famed into
state of more consciousness, and his trainer
whispered earnestly in his ear Then he came
/ forward and began to fight in the sly and
artful style that made him successful in
/ England He approached Sullivan cautiously,
but not cautiously enough, for he was caught
by smuggling blow before he touched Sullivan
| and went to the earth with the same rush. He
| got up very slowly and Sullivan sent him down
q second time. He rose slowly again and was
| sent down four more times in succession with
/ the same mercileSS vigor, but, when he got up
| again, he managed to get out of the reach of
| Sullivan's heavy swing and put in few hearty
| blows on his opponents body, which made the
| American champion pant. He saw another
one Of the big hits coming and quietly fell
| down, the blow went over his head, and the
reaction made Sullivan pant harder than ever.
| When Sullivan bits out with his whole
strength, and the blow meets moth
7 ing but the air, it has a disastrous
| effect on his strength. and il was this that
Wilson was plainly aiming at. According to
| the rules, he must stand up for four rounds be-
| fore Sullivan-each round to last two minutes
with a minutes rest between rounds. When
man was down he was allowed ten seconds to
get up in, and if he failed to stand up in that
time the match was to be declared In the
| others favor. Wilson was wise enough to see
that his only chance lay in evading Sullivan's
/ fists and falling constantly so as to take up
more time in getting up. In the third round
| he showed how we'll he had kept his brains
about him by his style of fighting. When they
met Sullivan rained down blows with terrific
| fury on the Englishman, who fought him back
| for moment and then fell. He got
up very slowly and before Sullivan was aware
Of his intention, the Englishman got within his
| guard and throwing his arm about Sullivan's
neck clnched him and hung his whole weight
on the champion. Sullivan rained half arm
| blows on Wilson's face, but with the gloves on,
he did little damage. When it became too hot
for him, Wilson would drop to the floor or
allow himself to be knocked down, and then
| slowly get up and clinch the champions neck
again and hang dead weight. This began to
| tell on Sullivan, who, giant as he was could
not stand the double effects of hitting himself
out and being dragged down by the pugist
from England, and when the men
staggered to their corners they
painted and blew fercely and showed
| by their faces how grave the struggle had
| been. When they came up for the last round
| their blows were feeble and their heads some
what unsteady, but they met gamelY, and
| when Sullivan let out his right it had enough
| of its famous power left to send Wilson reel
| ing over the ropes and almost on the heads of
the crowd But Sullivan had grown so weak
/ that the inertia of the blow carried him on top
| of Wilson, and it was nearly ten seconds be-
/ fore the men could get on their feet. Then
| Wilson chung 10 Sullivan again, and tn
/ fought feebly till the end of the round. By
| this time it was apparent that Wilson was
| bound to win, for his tactics had so
| worn out his huge opponent that he
| pumped and painted wildly for breath, and
| his arms were almos5 nervelesS. Wilson came
| up to the scratch at the fifth round, which was
| not fought OF course, and thereby won about
| S11 900, besides what he made at his private
| bets. They have been matched to fight with
| bare knuckles within four months for s., 900 a
| side. and the event will decide who is the
| champion pugilist of the world Meanwhile
| ten thousand New Workers, more less, are
| boasting that they saw the greatest glove fight
on record, and it is still the one topic of con-
| versation among all classes of people.
| HALL HAYNE.