BOXING BY A FRENCHMAN.
This is the account of an English b ixing match which a French newspaper gave a short time batk : —'• A spectator sits grimly watch in liand, to give the signal for each round ; another, generally a neighbouring tave< n-k-eper, linltls the Stakes. T;ie two brutes ( v-hat other name can we give them ?) stand up to each other; the man with the watch cries Times ! and then the fun begins. - It is not bad sport to black-n, and even to blind your adversary’s eyes, and to break his teeth ; but the cream ol the tiling is to knock his eye out of its socket and to break witli ..ne blow the whole frame of his chest. The combatants can see no mote ; but after a few seconds of rest the man with the Walcn cri-s limps! ann the two men are again put up. * Bravo, Tom !’ ‘At him, Bill!' cry the bystand-rs; but very often the figli ers are so far gone that they have, to be drenched with gin, so that i her inav go on till th >y drop. Ihen the one who cannot respond at all to the cry of Tim.-s is declared beaten. Il he is killed, the nun who has kil-. d him gets off with a week’s immkouUlelit,” 1
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Kumara Times, Issue 708, 6 January 1879, Page 2
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