Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (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, 1719-40, 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 3 (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, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863
Miles, Henry Downes
Boxing
We examined the supposed fracture in his ribs, but
could discover nothing beyond severe contusions. It
will be recollected that Brassey closed his labours
with Caunt upon similar grounds, though perhaps with
better reason. Nick was immediately conveyed to his
omnibus, where he became prostrate in mind and body,
exciting but little sympathy in the breasts of the
general body of spectators. The fight lasted
forty-seven minutes. The ceremony of girding Caunt with
the Champion’s Belt then took place, and it was put
round his loins, with a hearty wish from those who
witnessed his unflinching courage from first to last,
as well as his manly forbearance amidst cowardly
provocation, that he might long retain it. He
afterwards went to Ward’s carriage, and offered him all
the consolations of which he was susceptible, hoping
that they might hereafter be the best friends, a
feeling which Jem Ward, who evidently blushed for the
pusillanimity of his brother, good-naturedly
reciprocated. Caunt, he said, had proved himself the
better man, and should always be an acceptable guest at
his house. We ought to have mentioned that Caunt, on
quitting the ring, disdained to do so in the usual way,
but leaped clear over the ropes, a height of four feet
six, and on his way home ran a pretty fast race against
a “Corinthian” across a piece of ploughed land for a
bottle of wine, which he cleverly won.
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