San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-15
GRIT AND ENDURANCE.
The Way Some Men Have Fought
After Fearful Punishment.

Now, here" said the old sport, look
Ing over his glasses and jabbing vicious
ly with fOre-finger at u paragraph In
the paper he had been perusing. sis the
sort OF thing that makes me sick. just
listen tOit." And he read:
His left hand had been severely in
iured in the third round, and In the
seventh round his right was completely
disabled by striking a stake. Neverthe-
less he fought on bravely, and after hVe
more hardly contested rounds, won the
fight, having punished his antagonist
terribly"
The old sport threw the paper aside
with a snort of disgust, and, taking of
his glasses to gesticDlate with. COM
mented: "Oh, yes! And after while
they will be giving it to US that
after a mans arm, legs and back have
been broken, he danced nibly around
the ring, outfought his antagonist at
every point, battered him to jelly, and
won q glorious victory! The fact Is that
a game man will stand a deal OF pun
ishment before he is knocked out;
but there Is limit to every
Thing. and the man who has both
hands disabled, isn't going to do much
punishment, unless he is allowed TO KICK
which Is against the rules. A clever
fighter with lots Of nerve and savage
resolution to back him up, will do some
terrible fighting with only one hand;
but he must have one, or his sponge
might MS well be thrown up. John Z.
Heenan, in his great fight with John
MOrrissey. fought dozen hard rounds
after his right hand was smashed and
completely disabled by striking a stake,
which was Just little harder than Nor
rissey's head. Tom Sayers had his arm
broken by a blow like a mules kick
from Heenan's fist, and went on fight
ing for an hour afterwards with his
right. Eventually whippedr Yes, OF
course he was Hammer Lane also
had his left arm broken in fight with
Yankee Sullivan, but went on fighting
bravely long time afterward TO be
whipped at last. Greenfield broke his
right arm, or II WAS broken for him in
his fight with Tug Wilson only about
three wears ago, but fought on until
draw was declared half an hour later.
The most desperate injuries men re-
ceive in the ring are not, however, the
breaking Of arms or hands, nor are those
punishments, severe as they undoubt-
eddy are, the ones under endurance OF
which continued lighting is most won
derful. 1t is when man is beaten nearly
o death and stands up and fights, or at
least takes his punishment, as long as
he can stand up long. enough to be
knocked down, that he shows the grand
grit of born fighter. There was that
memorable fight in 1858 between Charles
Lynch and Andy Kelly, for one. Andy
Kelly had to be killed to get him whip
ped. He died on the steamboat coming
back to the city from the fight, VIII ch
was up on the Palisades, If ] remember
Alright Just now. His ribs and his lungs
and head were all stove in, and yet he
fought on. He was SO mashed up when
the fight was over that John MOrrissey
turned from the sight OF him, saying
that it made him sick, and walked away,
unable to look at him. He fought as
long as he could stand up. and his nerve
enabled him to stand up until he was
practically dying. Andy Kelly was one
of the gamest men that ever lived. And
there was another old time fighter, Jack
Mccoy, who was literally killed in the
ring by Chris Lilly, in 1912. His hackers
begged him to leave the ring while there
was yet a chance of saving his life, but
he refused to do so. 1--we come here to
fight until I'm killed or win,' he said, or
words to that effect, and killed he was"