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
THE FIGHT.
Round 1.—Kendrick hit short with his left hand, and delivered his
right well home on Sutton’s head, but his hand was open and it did
no mischief. Sutton rushed in, closed, and threw Kendrick a heavy
fall.
2.—Sutton delivered a straight and well-directed blow with his left
hand in Kendrick’s bread-basket, which made him cry “Hem!” and drove
him back two yards. Sutton, going in to follow up his success, was
met in the middle of the head, when a rally commenced. Some blows
exchanged, and Kendrick was thrown. It was evident here Sutton was
too strong for him.
3.—Sutton put in another left-handed doubler, and followed with his
right on Kendrick’s eye, which floored him as if shot. Kendrick bled
freely from his nose and mouth.
Nine other rounds were fought, in which Sutton had it all his own
way, and Kendrick received some heavy blows and falls. In the
twelfth round Sutton hit him with the left hand in the mark, and
caught him on the head with the right as he was going down, which so
knocked the wind and senses out of Kendrick that he could not be
moved from his second’s knee. The fight lasted seventeen minutes.
Sutton was scarcely marked, his condition being very superior to
that of poor Kendrick, who was severely punished. A liberal
subscription was made for him through the exertions of Mr. Jackson,
and sympathy was expressed as it was his third defeat in succession,
and he was “out of luck.”
REMARKS.—Kendrick’s weakness was visible early in the fight; but,
without taking that into consideration, he could not in his best
trim conquer Sutton. Though without a chance of winning the purse,
he showed himself a game man. He received a tremendous hit on the
right eye, and also complained of a severe stomacher, that puffed
the wind out of his empty frame like a pair of bellows; Sutton also
fell upon him heavily. A gentleman very humanely gave up an inside
place, and rode outside a coach, in order that poor Kendrick might
be brought to London comfortably and free of expense; he also paid
other attentions to his wants. Several gentlemen proposed that
Kendrick should be sent into training, and that they would back him
against the Gas-light Man for 25 guineas a-side. With patronage and
training, Kendrick, it was thought, might become as it were a new
man.
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