Note 22 — Chapter VII · DAN DONNELLY, CHAMPION OF IRELAND.

This is the account in “Boxiana,” and faute de mieux we must adopt it. We suspect the much-vaunted Sir Daniel was simply a big clumsy “rough,” despite his defeat of Old Tom Oliver, who was a game boxer, but “slow as a top,” as Spring often in a friendly way described him. Cooper, too, had already been beaten by Oliver, and was in anything but good condition when he met Donnelly.