Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

rose from his seconds knee and NUT
tered, II 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 Langan,
who won a score of fights before he
met Tom Spring for the British cham
pionship. Spring was a much bigger
man than Langan. who scaled 16S
pounds. The fighting was desperate.
Spring broke both his hands. but in
the rs rounds Tough either knocked
or threw Langan down about 60 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 n fight of it that Spring actually
promised to give him 10 pounds in
appreciation of his gameness-which
was very generous conduct toward n
loser in those days.
When Jackson Beat Mendoza
One of the greatest English fight
ers was John Jackson. a big man and
a marvellous hitter. who beat all op-
ponents easily.
His last fight was with Dan Man
doza, the Jew. who was one of the
cleverest boxers ever known i'll Eng
land.
! The odds were two to one on Men
{ 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 published
100 Years ago:
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crahly changed, and some murmur-
ings were expressed by the friends of
Mendoza. on witnessing Jackson take
hold of his opponent of the hair. and
serving him out in that defenseless
state until he fell to the ground. An
! appeal was MADE to the umpires upon
the propriety of the action, when it
was dcamed perfectly consistent with
the rules of fighting, and the battle
proceeded"
Jackson knocked Mendoza out in the
ninth round, in 10 and a half minutes
of fighting.
After retiring from the ring Gen
tleman' Jackson became proprietor of
n notable inn, and was n great favorite
in English society, as he was a man
of good education and fine appearance.
One of his closest friends was Lord
Byron.
Jews We're SkiIIfui Boxers
There were several great Jewish
fighters in the old days in England. The
best of these were Daniel Mendoza
Tone of whose descendants has "A tailor
shop near the Brooklyn bridge in New
York today; Dutch Sam, Barney Aaron
and Abraham Belasco.
They were all noted for their skill.
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only 100 pounds. yet he won 100 fights
against men of all weights. A sporting
writer of the time about 1895 wrote
of him: "Hc was the most accom-
plished and scientific pugilist Of his
day, and his tremendous ferocIty gave
the Jews a character for milling that
it is not likely they car ever expect
to realize again.
Getting away from the ancients. We'll
come down to a bit more modern times,
when John G. Heenan, the Benicia boy.
champion of America, went to England
/, to fight Tom Savers for the worlds
. heavyweight championship.
Tom Sayers. heavyweight champion
of England, was an extremely clever
boxer and only a middleweight. like
Charlie Mitchell who afterward fought
Sullivan.
He fought for II years. His longest
battle was 100 rounds with Harry
Poulson. and he lost only one fight early
in his career, when Nat Langham beat
him in 81 rounds. The English idolized
Savers and thought him invineible.
First International Bout
John G.. Heenan was born in Troy in
1885. His height was six feet two and
his weight 100 pounds. He was a great
boxer.
! In 1860 he challenged Savers and
went to England to fight. This was
the first international ring battle to
attract wide attention.
Many American sportsmen went to
England for the bout.
Harpers Weekly sent Tom Mast, the
first great American cartoonist across
to picture the fight, and Nsast drew his
! nictures ard made his "haK nlo+"s on