The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-10
MOST BRUTAL FIGHT
On Record Was the 37-Round Mill
 Between Heenan and Savers.

From the Washington Post
 "There never was a vocabulary so rich in spectacular expressions as the verbal coinage that glistened and besprinkled the prize ring" said the retired sport "The expressions of half a century ago that were in use throughout the puglistlo world were unlike any other language In the universe.
 Tn those days fellows planted rat tiers on each others 'nobs' or smashed a 'protoscis.' They put up their mauleys, or their dukes (meaning the fists), and blows fell heavily on bread baskets and kissing traps They played tattoos on each others knowledge boxes.' and nod dles' and much else that can't remem- Der It's so long ago that ve forgotten them" he sighed.
 But this only reminds me of the great international fight that took place be- tween Tom Savers, champion of England, and John c. Heenan Cthe Benicia Boy). Savers that day won the belt and won 1t by beating all the best men in his coun- try This particular fight took place in April, 1s60 Heenan had whipped two or three men in California, where he went in his early youth from his native place, West Troy, N. Y, but had himself been defeated by John Morrissey at Stoney Point in Canada, where they fought for s50o0 a side and the championship.
 For all that. his friends thought he was the man to engage in an information al contest with Savers for a purse of s1Og 4 side and the belt, and across the stormy ocean went The Benicia Boy to try his luck. There was some difficulty in getting together, for the London police were then in vrtuous frame of mind concerning these mills and made special efforts to prevent this one, but the Bob bies were outwitted and the fight came off in a meadow in the neighborhood of Hampshire. John Morrissey, who had de- feated Heenan, was present, not as friend or second of his former adver- sary, but with two or three other prom inent sporting men. was there as repre- sentative of the American public.
 The two principals in this fight looked at each other very curiously when they met at the ringside, as it was the first time they had seen each other. They had a little talk. but didn't waste much time. because the police, or, as the sporting papers of London called them, the Blues, were searching diligently for them determined to stop what all the good people of England, and in this country also, for that matter. were in clined to call a brutal exhibition
 "Heenan's colors bore the motto, May the best man win, and Savers hung out some sort of the many flags they have over there in England. They were soon tied to stakes in their respective corners, and the men went at each other hammer and tongs.' Heenan was doing some lively work early in the game, and the Yankee contingent was wild with their cheers of encouragement. Savers went down twice before the fifth round. and the friends Of the American wer offering odds of to on him. The Englishmen were looking very crestfallen, can tell you.
 "The seventh round of that fight, which lasted thirteen minutes, was one of the greatest rounds in prize lore annals. Heen- an often took refuge. when pressed hard