Fencing . length towards the this may have been, Entellus was certainly at faultin one of the elementary principles of the art. His feet were*all wrong, and his attitude so bad that in missing his man hetoppled over bodily, and fell very heavily, amidst tremendousshouting on the part of the adverse faction. Every one jumpedup—long battles wxre evidently most unusual—and the fallenm^ns second at once ran in to pick him up. Surprise wasmanifested at the fact that the pugilist was neither damaged nor* dismayed! He goes to w^ork with a will thenceforth, anddrives the smaller man ^all o
Fencing . length towards the this may have been, Entellus was certainly at faultin one of the elementary principles of the art. His feet were*all wrong, and his attitude so bad that in missing his man hetoppled over bodily, and fell very heavily, amidst tremendousshouting on the part of the adverse faction. Every one jumpedup—long battles wxre evidently most unusual—and the fallenm^ns second at once ran in to pick him up. Surprise wasmanifested at the fact that the pugilist was neither damaged nor* dismayed! He goes to w^ork with a will thenceforth, anddrives the smaller man ^all over the ring,raining his blowsboth with right and left like hail on the discomfited there is a summary interference on the part of the masterof the sports, who charitably attributes the mishap of his fellow-countryman to the influence of some god or goddess. Theveteran, baulked of his full revenge—for he meant to finish offhis man in complete style—fells with a blow between the horns. FiAiire IV.—Retreat in good order THE HISTORY OF BOXING 131 the ox which was to be his prize, and offers it up as a sacrificeto Eryx, thus sacrificing as he says ^ a better hfe in lieu of thatof his intended victim. Why Dares did not * go down to savehimself from punishment, it does not appear. Entellus, in truesporting style, * having won the belt, retires. It remains, before dismissing the boxing of the old world,to mention what was its chief characteristic, the use of thecaestus, or glove. In its first origin there can be little doubtthat this apparatus was used as a protection to the arm or the practice of round-arm and downward hitting, which isnatural to unskilled pugilists, there is much danger of bruisingor breaking the bone of the forearm. Even amongst the mostexpert performers, where one of them is much overmatched inheight and weight, it is often dif^cult to avoid this result, as wasamply proved in the greatest prize fight of modern times,^ whenTom Sayers
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