. Athletics and manly sport . t-lesson forEngland, outweighing even the brutality of abare-handed fight, in the fortitude and reservedpower of Tom King when he defeated Mace forthe English championship m 1862. Mace, a gypsy by race, was a middle-sizedman, one hundred and fifty-lour pounds weight;but he was the most famous boxer in the Avorld,and he deserved his fame. Xo man ever usedboth hands more evenly, or more efiectively, instraii>:ht bodv-blows, — the best blows for a smallman to use on a bio- one, if he know how toescape a counter on the head. King was six feettwo and one quarter inc
. Athletics and manly sport . t-lesson forEngland, outweighing even the brutality of abare-handed fight, in the fortitude and reservedpower of Tom King when he defeated Mace forthe English championship m 1862. Mace, a gypsy by race, was a middle-sizedman, one hundred and fifty-lour pounds weight;but he was the most famous boxer in the Avorld,and he deserved his fame. Xo man ever usedboth hands more evenly, or more efiectively, instraii>:ht bodv-blows, — the best blows for a smallman to use on a bio- one, if he know how toescape a counter on the head. King was six feettwo and one quarter inches in height, and traineddown to one hundred and eighty pounds Mace had won his fame with victories overgiants. He had defeated Kino himself in the 66 ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT. early part of the same year, after a tremendousbattle of forty-three rounds. He had beaten infive rounds, without receiving a blow, the gigan-tic Lancashire wrestler and boxer. Hurst, knownas the Staleybridge Infant. So when Mace. CLINCH. and King met in the winter of 1862, for a secondfight for the championship, the betting was sevento four on Mace. And the course of the fight justified the oddsfor a long time. With extreme caution both menfought; but, from the moment time was called,the champion Mace had the best of it. For tenrounds this was obviously so ; for fifteen and no A LESSOX EYEX IX A FIGHT. 67 change ; at the nineteenth Kings friends knew hewas beaten. He w\as fearfully punished about the
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