Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (of 3): Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863Miles, Henry Downes
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Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (of 3): Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863
Miles, Henry Downes
Boxing
REMARKS.—In the eighth round Carter was evidently distressed, and
showed he was much out of condition. He had been living freely, and
his milling capabilities must have experienced a drawback, by his
having a very painful and inflamed leg. In fact, it was rather a
surprise match, and the money hastily deposited on the part of
Carter when he was not in the most temperate state of understanding.
It was a ridiculous wager altogether, and such a man as Robinson
appeared to be in this last fight with Carter, would require the
tremendous finishing hits of a Cribb to beat the man of colour with
anything like a certainty in thirty minutes. The face of Robinson,
never an Adonis, was a little spoilt as to its former character, but
the light was far from being taken out of him, and in the tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth rounds he changed his mode, with an appearance
of going to work in earnest. He is not to be vanquished by nobbing
hits alone. Could Carter use his right hand in any manner to second
his left, few men, it is urged, would be able to stand any length of
time before him. He appeared not the least hurt from the conflict in
which he had been so recently engaged; and Robinson also was in a
wagon viewing the fight between Curtis and Lazarus, with all the
indifference of a mere spectator.
The Lancashire and Carlisle friends of Carter now rallied round him, and
he was at length matched with Oliver. In the metropolis Oliver was
everything; and Carter, in opposition to him, only named with derision
and contempt. But time, which proveth all things, thus narrates this
milling event:—
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