Athletics and manly sport (1890) (14773074221)

Identifier: athleticsmanlysp00orei (find matches)
Title: Athletics and manly sport
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890
Subjects: Boxing Games Canoes and canoeing
Publisher: Boston, Pilot publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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six hours, fifteenminutes, James Kelly and Jonathan Smith, near Melbourne,Australia, Xovember, 1855. Longest bare-knuckle battle in England â six hours, threeminutes, Mike Madden and Bill Hayes, Edenbridge. July 17,1849. Longest bare-knuckle battle in America â four hours,twenty minutes, J. Fitzpatrick and James OXeil, Berwick,Maine, Dec. 4, 1860. Longest glove fight â five hours, three minutes, forty-fiveseconds; seventy-six rounds, Wm. Sheriff and J. Welch, Phila-delphia, Penn., April 10. 1884. Largest stake fought for in America â $10,000, Tom Hyerand Yankee Sullivan, Rock Point, Md., Feb. 7, 1849. Largest stake fought for in England â£2,000, Tom Kingand John C. Ileenan, Wadhurst, England, Dec. 10, 1863. First ring fight in America â Jacob Hyer and ThomasBeasley, in 1816. Sullivans superiority as a boxer. 81 If Sayers could not knock out Poulson in onehundred and eight rounds, with bare hands, whateflect would he have had on him in four roundswith laroe soft-oloyes ?
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CKOSS-COU>TER. As Sayers, witli bare hands, was to Poulson(an inferior man) in one hundred and nine rounds,so is Sullivan, with large gloves, to the best manin the world in four rounds. That is the sum inproportion. 82 ETHICS OF BOXIMi AM) MANLY SPOKT. To show the progress in boxing betweenBroughtons day and ours, the reader is referredto the Appendix for the best code of rules too^overn olove contests that has ever been drawnup. They are the product of a Boston man, Mr.David Bkmchard. XV. BOXING COMPARED WITH OTHER EXERCISES. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. Thisnoble exercise ousfht not to be iudo:ed bv thedishonesty or the low lives of too many of itsprofessional followers. Let it stand alone, anathletic practice, on the same footing as boatingor foot-ball. Putting: prize-fiohtino^ alto2rether aside as oneof the unavoidable evils attending on this manlyexercise, the inestimable value of boxing as atraining, discipline, and development of boys andyoung men remains. All ot