The Peer ana the PUGILIST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 180, 6 July 1883, Page 2

The Peer ana the PUGILIST.

THE PRINCE OP WiLLES AT A PRIZE FIGHT,

I ■ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) San Francisco, June 9. i The Chicago papers of 3~d June publish a despatch from London, giving further particulars of Lord Charles Beresford's fight with Mace. Hi 3 Lordship, ie is stated, challenged the Maori and Mace, and a seUto, with gloves, was arranged. Mace accepted the challenge, and fighters met m a speci-ally-arranged private room near the Elephant and Caste publichouse, m the Borough Road. The Piince of Wales was present surrounded by a large number of aristocratic " sports" and private gentlemen. Heavy betting was indulged m. After several axciting rounds, m which some excellent science was displayed on both sides, Mace failed to come to time, and finally acknowledged himself beaten. Lord Charles won an easy victory, and almost without a scratch. When he had finished with Mace he invited Blade to take a turn, but the Maori refused to enter the ring. Mace took his defeat quietly. It is. now known that Lord Charles had intimated to his Royal Highness that an English gentleman could always whip a professional fighter, and he had expressed a determination to meet Jem Mace aud the Maori on the first opportunity. His Lordship, it will be remembered, commanded the Condor gunboat ia tin daring attack at close quarters with the A.lexanJria forts-dur-ing the EsrvntUn w.-tr.