The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

his motto the old maxim that there
are three things necessary to success
in life-Impudence! Impudence! I'm
pudence!" Ii is so in matters of opin-
ion, but not in the Fancy, which is the
most practical of all things, though
| even here confidence is half the bat
! tie, but only half. Our friend had
! if he wanted to grin and bully his ad
versary out of the fight. Alas! the
Bristol man was not so tamed!'-
| This is the grave -diSger!' would Tom
! Hickman exclaim in the moments of
! intoXiCation from gin and success.
| showing his tremendous right hand
| This will send many of them to their
! long homes: | haven't done with them
, YETI Why should he? Though he
/ had licked four of the best men with
in the hour, yet why should he threat
en- to intlict dishonorable chastise-
ment on my old master Richmond.
veteran going off the stage, and who
has borne his sable honors meekly?
MaGnanimity, my dear Tom, and
bravery should be inseparable. Or
why should he go up to his antag-
onist, the first time he ever saw him
at the Five Court, and, measuring
him from head TO foot with glance
OF contempt, as Achilles surveyed
Hector. say to him: What, are you
Bill Neate? I'll knock more blood
out of that great carcass of thine. this
day fortnight, than you ever knock d
out OF bullock's!" 1t was not man
ly, twas not fighter-like. If he was
sure Of the victory (as he was not)
the less said about it the better.
Modesty should accompany the Fancy
as it's shadow. The best men were al
ways the best behaved"
The fighters were matched, in this
classic affair, along lines familiar to
those who read accounts of the recent
Willard-Dempsey go. The Gas-man
resembled Dempsey in being lighter,
more aggressive: Bill Neate was a
great OK of man, somewhat resem-
DlluS w .ldTu. ne outcome, now
ever. was entirely different, even
though IIazlitt's description of the
first round might fit the same round
in the recent widely advertised con-
test at Toledo. AS the essayist re-
ports:
In the first round every one
thought it was all over After MAX
ing play short time, the Eastman
flew at his adversary like tiger,
struck five blows in as many seconds.
three first, and then following him as
he staggered back. two more, right
and left, and down he fell. mighty
ruin. There was shout, and l said,
There is no standing this Neate
seemed like a life.ess lump of flesh
and bone. round which the Gas-man's
blows played with the rapidity OF
electricity or lightning, and you imag
ined he would only be lifted up to he
knocked down again. 1t was as il
Hickman held sword or fire in
that right hand OF his, and directed
met again, and Neate seemed. not
cowed but particularly cautious 7
saw his teeth clenched together and
his brows knit close against the sun
He held out both arms at full length
straight before him. like two slcdge-
hammers. and raised his left an incn
or two higher. The Eastman could
not get over this guard they struck
vantage on either side. 1t Was the
same in the next round; but the bal
anCe of power was thus restored the
fate of the battle was suspended No
one could tell how it would end. This
was the only moment in which opin-
ion was divided; for. in the next the
Gas man, aiming mortal blow at his
adverSary'S neck with his right hand
and failing from the length he had to
reach, the other returned it with his
left at full swing, planted tremen-
dous blow on his cheek bone and eye
brow, and made a red ruin OF that
oluc VI HIS lace. me Ddb-Hlan went
down. and there was another shout
roar OF triumph as the waves Of for
tune rolled tumultuously from side to
side. This was settler. Hickman
got up. and 'grinned horrible ghast-
ly smile yet he was evidently dashed
in his opinion of himself; IL was the
first time he had ever been so pun
ished; all one side OF his face was
perfect scarlet, and his right eye was