Prize Fight in Sydney.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 84, 12 March 1885, Page 2

Prize Fight m Sydney.

; \A. prize fight for i-500 a-side was Settled m the vicinity of Mavrickville, near Sydney, the other day. The contestants were a clerk employed m a leading colonial monetary institution and a well-known provincial boxer. The fight was arranged to come off at 5 m the morning, bat owing to the presence of the police m the neighbourhood, the contestants did not begin their- -traewletrt encounter until nearly 1} o'clock. At that hour both men 'stepped inlo a well-appointed -24ft~ringv*strip^ed to the waists* and with naked fists. The manager 6t. the institution, of which otic of the contestants is a clerk, was pffeselit, and offered;*loDg?odßs"lSto the rf>f)ve3entalive of his Wta4Aismnent. The tight is described as having been mo^t brutal, and justed ami! half-past two o'clock. ..T£he secoridYof the provincial man then Ihrew^up tb^a sponge. Their man was m a weak and exhausted condition,', arid fearfully cut and brnLsed/ His' opponent was also punished very severely. The select few who witnessed -tber^nc\>unter returned to town shortly after 3 o'clock with bated breath, aiitl wiffikfi air of innocence as if nothing beyond the ordinary had taken place, 'the result has caused seveial thousands of poundu to change hands!