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
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27.—Stringer in endeavouring to bore in upon his adversary ran
himself down.
28.—Stringer now made a last and desperate effort. His seconds kept
as it were urging him forward, telling him “to hold up his head.” He
continued to fight till he was sent down.
29th and last.—This round was, in point of execution, the severest
ever seen. Stringer received so tremendous a hit in his body, from
the right hand of his opponent, that he was only prevented in the
act of falling on his face by a quick repetition of it, which caught
Yorky’s nob, and instantly floored him on his back! He was carried
out of the ring by his seconds in a state of stupor. The battle
lasted thirty-nine minutes.
REMARKS.—A more determined man was never witnessed than Stringer
proved himself. He put in some desperate blows, and his confidence
never forsook him; indeed he laughed several times. On being asked
how he felt himself within the last two rounds, he observed, “he was
as hearty as a buck!” As a “Receiver-General” he stands almost
without an equal. It was a truly desperate fight, and might stand
comparison with the battle between Symonds and George Maddox.
Stringer was most ably seconded by Richmond and Shelton. His nob was
completely metamorphosed. Stringer looks like a man of forty, and,
it would seem, he has commenced pugilist too late in the day to
attain any celebrity. He is able to beat any rough commoner. From
the exhibition of Spring in this battle, he bids fair to put all the
“big ones” upon the alert. It is true, he wants improvement in his
mode of fighting; nevertheless, he displayed those sound requisites,
which, when united with experience, must ultimately constitute him a
first-rate boxer. His strength is unquestionable; his game by no
means doubtful; and he possesses a tolerably good knowledge of the
science. Spring was not once distressed throughout the above battle.
He never bobbed his head aside to avoid the coming blow, but stood
firm as a rock, and stopped or parried. His generous behaviour also
to Stringer, in four or five instances, when he might have
administered additional punishment, was so manly and humane that it
cannot be passed over, nor ought it to be forgotten. Spring has a
prepossessing appearance, is well made, and weighs more than
fourteen stone.[1] Both of the above boxers have stood at the Royal
Academy, as “studies” for the artists. The frame of Stringer is
considered to possess great anatomical beauty.
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