Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-28
SPORTS AND SPORTING.
FIstic Facts-Fancies and Predictions
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Gossip of the Turf and Field.
Ed. Dorney, one of the olden times pu-
gilists, still lives and keeps sporting
house in Chicago.
Two pigeons recently few from Hayre
de Grace, Md, to Newark, n. j., dis
lance of 1859 miles, in Oh. 4S1{m.
A congress of bicycle riders was re-
Gently held at Leipsic, Germany. Huber,
the champion rider, covered 81 miles In
19m. 5s3Ss.
Tug Wilson still keeps shoe manufac-
tory in Leicester, England. He says ne
would not come to America again II ne
got all the Bank OF England.
The stakes in the great prize fight be-
tween Jem Ward and Tom Cannon were
81, 900 ($5, 000). The battle was fought on
a stage erected on Shank's estate, near
Warwick, Eng, July 10, 1925. Cannon
stood feet 81 inches in height. w ara
stood one inch over Cannon. Ward knock
ed Cannon out of time in ten ROUNDS,
fought in 10 minutes. The finishing blow
Ward delivered knocked Cannon sense
less and nearly ended his life.
Joe Goss, the noted pugilist, is still liy-
ing in Boston. In an argument recently it
was claimed that he only fought Jem
Mace twice. Mace and Joe Goss fought
three times. In the first fight Mace won IN
nineteen rounds, lasting hour 5513 MIN
utes, Sept. l, 1868, for 1000 $4,000. The
second battle ended in draw; one round
was fought in 1 hour IA minutes, May "a,
1866. The third battle was fought In To-
foot ring, Aug. 6, 1865, when Mace won IN
twenty-one rounds, lasting 80 minutes.
Jack Boylan, the Irish champion, who
was in this country in 1873, and who
whistled the ''Rocky Road to Dublin"
when he went to the scratch in his light
with Pete Croker at Sands Point, L.. l., now
keeps sporting drum at Dublin. Boylan,
after being whipped by Croker, sat on the
beach at Sheepshead Bay and said, as
he washed the blood from his battered
countenance: "Well, boys, did please
YOU GIl?' Boylan's head at this time
was three tilnas its natural size, while
his left eye was closed and the right side
of his face was terribly battered,
George King, the English pugilist, came
to this country May 7, 1859. He came
into notice in England when he defeated
Ned Donnelly, Oct. 20, 1857, after plucky
fight, which lasted 2 hours and 80 min
utes. King fought another great battle in
England. 1t was with Jem Clarke, of
Liverpool, for EOS, at Duntord Bridge.
After one hundred and twenty-five
rounds, in 10 minutes, wrangle and
draw ensued. In August, 1858, King and
Clarke fought a second time, for &lO0, in
the Liverpool district. After siXty-ssven
rounds, in 115 minutes, Clarke had to give
in, as it was jug-handle fight for King.
After the twentieth round Bill Hayes
threw up the sponge for Clarke. King
was seconded by Jenny Massey and
Jack Lawley.
The announcement that Jem Mace is
again to return to this country recalls to
mind the Gypsy's match with Ned O'Bald-
win. They were TO have fought for s., 900
and the championship of the world in
Virginia, Aug. Is, 1872. Both men were
arrested in Baltimore, Nd, and bound
over in $1,000 each, and the steamers
chartered were stopped by injunctions
being placed on their Captains on Aug.
IA, 1872. The stakeholder, VIM. McMul-
len, of Philadelphia, ordered the pugillsts
to meet at Golfers Station, w. Va, on
Aug. u, 1872. Mace and O'Baldwin APP
peared in the ring stripped ready for the
battle, attended by their seconds. Barney
Aaron and Joe Coburn being behind Mace,
while Johnny Dwyer and Tom Kelly, of
st. Louis, were O'Baldwin's seconds. The
pugilists could not agree upon a referee.
Mace was willing to have two referees,
Tom Hughes, of Pittsburg, and John
Leary, of New York. O'Baldwin would
not agree to any referee, and the stakes
were finally drawn.