The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31

his seconds knee and muttered. "r
won't fight any more"
! The Englishman. unable to see
but striking at the sound OF the voice,
landed the last blow.
A game Irishman was Ned Lam
! gan, who won a score of fights be-
! core he met Tom Spring for the
! British championship. Spring was a
| nuch bigger man than Langan, who
ieaied lbS pounds, The fighting was
desperate.
Spring broke both his hands, but
In the rs rounds fought either
sixty times. often falling on him as
he fell, This was part OF the game
under the old rules.
langan was knocked out, but
made such fight of It that Spring
actually promised to give him 10
pounds in appreciation OF his game
ness--which was very generous CON
4uct toward loser in those days
When jackson Beat Mendoza.
one OF the greatest English fight
'crs WAS John jackson, a big man
and marvellous hitter, who beat ali
opponents easily,
HIS last fight was with Dan Men
doza, the jew who was one OF the
eleverest boxers ever known in Eng
land.
The odds were two 10 one on Mem
doza Jackson out-boxed Mendoza
and Knocked him down four times
each knock down ending the round.
The fifth round is described like this
in BoXiana. a boxing chronicle pub
lished a hundred years ago.
"Fitth-The scene was now com
sidaraDly changed. and some MUIR
murlngs We're expressed by the
friends OF Mendoza, on witnessing
Jackson take hold OF his oppon-
ent by tho hair, and serving him
out in that defanseless state until
he fell to the ground. An appeal
was made TO the umpires upon
the proprIety OF the action, when
II was deemed perfectly consistent
with the rules OF fighting. and the
battle proceeded"
Jackson knocked Mendoza out in
the ninth round, in ten and a half
minutes OF fighting.
After retiring from the ring Cen
tleman' Jackson became proprietor
OF a notable inn, and was a great
iavorite in English society, as ne was
a man OF good education and fine
appearance. one OF his closest
friends was Lord Byron,
jews Were SlSlllful Boxers.
There were several great Jewish
fighters in the old DAYS In England.
The best OF these were Daniel Men
doza cone of whose descendants has
a tailor shop near the Brooklyn
bridge in New York today; Dutca
sam, Barney Aaron and Abraham
BelaSco.
They were all noted for their skill.
Dutch sam (aliss SamueD weighed f,
only 1870 pounds. yet he won 100 |
nights ga ms { men OF all |
weights, a sporting writer OF the |
ume about 1795 wrote OF him: He /
was the most accomplished and sci /
enttftc pugilist OF his day, and HIS |
tremendous ferocity gave the news a .
character for milling that It !s not /
llkey they can ever expect TO realize
again."
Getting away from the anclents,
Wen come down 10 bit more mod
srn times when John c, Heenan. the
BenIcla boy, champion of America.
went to England to fight Tom saw,
eS Tor the worlds heavyweight /
championship.
Tom Sayers, heavyweight cham
pion Of England. was an extremely
clever boxer and enly e middle
weight like Charlie Mitchell, who
tfterward fought sullivan.
lie fought for IL years. Hts long
ast battle was l09 rounds with Harry
Foulson, and he lost only one fight.
early in his career when Nat Lang
nam beat him in 81 rounds. The
English idolized Sayers and thought
him invincible.
John c, Heenan was born IN Troy
n 1885. His height was six feet