In the same month--January, 1835--the bigger and better _Sun_ printed its first real sports story. The sporting editor, who very likely was also the police reporter and perhaps Partner Wisner as well, heard that there was to be a fight in the fields near Hoboken between Williamson, of Philadelphia, and Phelan, of New York. He crossed the ferry, hired a saddle-horse in Hoboken, and galloped to the ringside. It was bare knuckles, London rules, and only thirty seconds’ interval between rounds: At the end of three minutes Williamson fell. (Cheers and cries of “Fair Play!”) After breathing half a minute, they went at it again, and Phelan was knocked down. (Cheers and cries of “Give it to him!”) In three minutes more Williamson fell, and the adjoining woods echoed back the shouts of the spectators. The match lasted seventy-two minutes and ended in the defeat of Williamson. The _Sun’s_ report contained no sporting slang, and the reporter did not seem to like pugilism: And this is what is called “sports of the ring!” We can cheerfully encourage foot-races or any other humane and reasonable amusement, but the Lord deliver us from the “ring.” The following day the _Sun_ denounced prize-fighting as “a European practice, better fitted for the morally and physically oppressed classes of London than the enlightened republican citizens of New York.” As prosperity came, the news columns improved. The sensational was not the only pabulum fed to the reader. Beside the story of a duel between two midshipmen he would find a review of the Burr autobiography, just out. Gossip about Fanny Kemble’s quarrel with her father--the _Sun_ was vexed with the actress because she said that New York audiences were made up of butchers--would appear next to a staid report of the doings of Congress. The attacks on Rum continued, and the _Sun_ was quick to oppose the proposed “licensing of houses of prostitution and billiard-rooms.” The success of Mr. Day’s paper was so great that every printer and newspaperman in New York longed to run a penny journal. On June 22, 1835, the paper’s name appeared at the head of the editorial column on Page 2 as _The True Sun_, although on the first page the bold head-line _THE SUN_, remained as usual. An editorial note said: We have changed our inside head to _True Sun_ for reasons which will hereafter be made known. On the following day the _True Sun_ title was entirely missing, and its absence was explained in an editorial article as follows: