DEATH OF "TOM BROWN."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 9

DEATH OF "TOM BROWN."

,-— »___ — ... OLD VICAE'S MEMOEY OF A FAMOUS .FIGHT. ■■■.;•■ One of the most famous fights recorded in fiction is recalled by .the death on September. 30 of the Rev. Augustus Orlebar, .vicar of .Willington, in Bedfordshire, at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. Orlebar was the original of Tom Brown in '"Tom Brown's Schooldays," *nd the result of his fight at Eugby with "Slogger" : Williams as described in the .story has been the subject of endless speculation. \ Judge Hughes, the author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays," left the.result of the fight open. "The Slogger," he says, has the better at first,' but condition tells afterwards in:favour of Tom. "The Slogger" is put down for the third time, and 'both'boys are on the knees of their seconds waiting for the signal to restart : when Dr. Arnold comes in and all is over. The fight, of course, actually took place at Rugby. The combatants were the Rev. Augustus Orlebar and the Rev. Chancellor Bulkeley Owen Jones ("Slogger" Williams). Although he was undoubtedly the original of one of the contestants, the Rev. Augustus Orlebar was not drawn upon by Hughes for his hero in any other respect. ■• Giving hss opinion solely on the fight is recorded in the story, Mr. Eugene Corri, the well-known boxing authority, decided • in'favour "of .Tom Brown, who wori on points. The opinion of the Rev. Augustus Orlebar. was that neither could claim the victory, because when Dr. Arnold entered the hall and stopped the fight both combatants were so badly damaged about the face that he did ' not recognise thein. "Slogger." however, when interviewed in North Wales last year, maintained that he won because when Dr. Arnold caught them Tom Brown had fainted.,

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