INDEX TO VOLUME III.
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BENDIGO. See THOMPSON, WILLIAM.
BENJAMIN, BILL, or BAINGE 399, 406
BRASSEY, of Bradford (JOHN LEECHMAN).
Fight with Young Langan 340
Fight with Tass Parker 344
His death 351
BRETTLE, BOB.
His pugilistic career 414
His battle with Tom Sayers 416
Defeats Jem Mace 451
Is beaten by Tom Sayers 452
Is challenged by Jem Mace 457
Adjourned fight 458
Is beaten by Mace 459
BROOME, HARRY (Champion). 1851.
Younger brother to the renowned “Johnny” 308
Born at Birmingham 308
Early glove displays 308
Rivalry of East and West. The Broomes 309
Fred Mason (the “Bulldog”) 309
Harry matched against Mason for £50 309
A prepossessing “first appearance” 310
Harry beats the “Bulldog” 311
A twelvemonths’ rest. Joe Rowe 314
A trip down the river 315
Harry defeats Joe Rowe 316
Tom Spring resigns his post as referee 319
Second battle of Broome and Joe Rowe 321
Matched with Ben Terry 323
A suspicious affair and a “draw” 324
“The Great Unknown,” Harry and the Tipton Slasher 325
Broome’s remarkable increase in weight and stature 325
His fight with the Tipton, and Peter Crawley’s decision, 327
Negotiations with Harry Orme 330
Matched for £250 a side 330
Defeats Harry Orme 333
The old “Tipton” again 336
Broome forfeits to the “Tipton” 338
And to Tom Paddock 338
Is beaten by Paddock 338
Retires from the Ring 339
Becomes a publican at Portsmouth 339
His death in 1865, aged 39 339
Joe Rowe’s “Sultan Stores” (note) 339
BURKE, JAMES (“the Deaf’un”).
His birth and parentage 94
Strand Lane Stairs. “Jack-in-the-water” 95
The Thames in the first quarter of the century 95
The old “fighting days” 96
Joe Parish. “the Waterman.” “The Spotted Dog” 96
Eminent watermen pugilists 96
The Deaf’un’s first fight 97
The butchers of Clare Market 98
An Impromptu mill. Defeats Tom Hands 98
Defeats a “New Black” for “a purse” 99
Enrolled in the corps pugilistique 99
Beats Berridge at Leicester 99
Matched with Fitzmaurice 99
Beats Fitzmaurice at Harpenden 100
Spars with Young Dutch Sam 100
Is ruptured by an accident 101
Defeated by Cousens of Chichester 101
Defeats Girdler at North Chapel, Sussex 102
“Whiteheaded Bob” and the Duke of Cumberland 102
High prizes prohibitory of prize-fights 104
A stratagem. Grabbing the wrong man 104
Beats Gow at Temple Mills 104
Bob Hampson’s challenge and defeat 105
Three battles within six weeks 105
Beats Tim Crawley 108
Tommy Roundhead and Frosty-faced Fogo 109
A Homeric battle; the muses appeased 110
“The Deaf’un’s” merits as a sparrer 110
Matched with Birmingham Davis 111
A disappointment 111
Defeats Birmingham Davis 112
Matched with Blissett 113
Beats Blissett 114
A dinner at Tom Cribb’s; and a match 115
Beats old Jack Carter 115
A “little go.” Lazarus and Jem Brown 116
An interval and a sparring tour 116
Beats Yorkshire Macone 117
Challenges from Cousens and Josh Hudson 117, 118
Bill Charles, “the Welsh Champion” 118
Claims the Championship 118
“Too heavy” for Young Dutch Sam 118
Sign articles with Simon Byrne 119
“The Deaf’un’s” courage and humanity 119
The “Irish Champion” and “the talent” 119
The day before the battle 120
The fight and fatal result 121–125
Verdict of “manslaughter” against Burke and others 126
Subscription for the Widow Byrne 126
Trial and acquittal of Burke 127
Presentation of a service of plate to the Editor of Bell’s Life in London 128
Challenged by O’Rourke 128
And by Young Dutch Sam for £500 (!) 128
And by Jem Ward for £500, but not less than £100 a side, 128
O’Rourke’s challenge and departure for America 129
The Deaf’un’s “ancient statues” 129
Harry Preston and “the Deaf’un” 130
Plays at Sheffield in “Valentine and Orson” 131
Burke’s “farewell,” and high stakes for prize battles 131
A maximum stake of £200 voted 131
Sails for America 132
His welcome in the New World 132
Sails South to meet O’Rourke 133
Riots in New Orleans, and escape of “the Deaf’un” 133
Returns to New York 134
Battle with and defeat of O’Connell 135
The New York Herald and the P.R. 135
Burke’s arrival in Liverpool 138
The “big ones” of 1838 138
A general challenge from “the Deaf’un” 138
The school of “Tom and Jerry;” a trip to France 139
Returns, and is beaten by Bendigo 139
“The Lament of Deaf Burke” 140
The Deaf’un again in the field, and matched with Nick Ward 141
Beaten by Nick Ward 141
The Deaf’un’s oratory 142
Indicted with Owen Swift, Ned Adams, Dick Cain, Lord Chetwynd, and others 143
The “Battle of Bedford” and Parson Cautley 143
Address of Deaf Burke to the Grand Jury of Bedford 144
The trial and its result 148
Receives forfeit of £15 from the Tipton Slasher 148
Night-houses in the Haymarket 149
Bob Castles and “the Deaf’un” 149
A match between Old Ones 149
The voyage to Rainham Ferry 150
The fight. Burke the conqueror 151
“Triumphant epistle of Deaf Burke to Bob Castles” 155
Dissipation, disease, and death 156
C
CASTLES, BOB 149
CAUNT, BENJAMIN (Champion) 1841.
A native of Nottinghamshire 47
Hucknall Torkard and Lord Byron 47
His first defeat by Bendigo 47
Beats William Butler 47
Beats Boneford 48
Second match with Bendigo 48
A mail-coach Journey to Doncaster in 1838 48
The road to the fight 52
The combatants “interviewed” 53
Incidents and mishaps 54
The fight; a magisterial interference 56
The fight won by a “foul” 58
Remarks on the battle 59
Caunt receives the stakes 60
A new match for £100 a side and a forfeit 60
Challenges by Brassey and Caunt 60
“An heroic epistle from Brassey to Caunt” 61
Estimates of the men 62
Newmarket and its neighbourhood 64
A battle of “big ’uns” 66
Caunt the victor 69
Claims the Championship 69
Challenged by Nick Ward 69
Loses with Ward by a “foul blow” 70
A second match made 70
Stratford-on-Avon the rendezvous 71
The field of battle, Long Marsden 72
The Champion’s new belt 73
Caunt defeats Nick Ward 74
Caunt “Champion,” sails for America with the “Belt” 77
A “buncombe” challenge 77
Charles Freeman, “the Giant” 78
“The Michigan Giant” and “New York Baby” 78
Returns to England, March, 1842 79
Caunt’s “Champion Cup” 79
Challenges Bendigo, Tass Parker, and the Tipton Slasher, in six months, each for £200 79
Bendigo again in the field 80
Caunt loses his third battle with Bendigo 80
A dreadful domestic calamity 80
Caunt and Nat Langham; a silly feud 81
Matched for £200 a side 81
Ben’s challenge to Tom Sayers 83
Misgivings as to Caunt and Langham’s encounter 84
The battle 86
A “draw” and a “dispute” 88
The “dropping” system 92
Caunt in retirement 93
His death, Sept. 10, 1861 93
H
HURST, SAM (“the Staleybridge Infant”).
His battle with Tom Paddock 307
Matched with Jem Mace 459
His battle with Jem Mace 460
Defeat and retirement 463
J
JONES, AARON.
His fights with Harry Orme 253, 262
Ditto with Tom Paddock 283
Beaten by Tom Sayers 237, 287
Fight with Bob Wade 245
Challenges Tom Sayers 419
A renewed match with Sayers 431
Surviving in 1881 358
K
KING, TOM, (Champion) 1862.
His birthplace, Stepney 490
Adopts a sailor’s life 490
Voyages to Africa 490
A foreman in the docks 490
His inoffensive character and courage 491
Disposes of a “’long-shore” bully 491
Introduced to Jem Ward 491
A challenge for a small stake 491
A forfeit from Clamp 491
Matched with Tommy Truckle, of Portsmouth 491
Beats Tommy Truckle 492
Arrival of Heenan 494
Matched with Harry Poulson, of Nottingham 494
Challenges Sam Hurst for Championship 494
Matched with Evans (Young Broome) 495
The Championship and Circus quackery 495
Ring performances of Young Broome 495
King defeats Young Broome in two Rings 496
Large stakes for little fights 500
Matched with Mace 500
A tedious interval 501
The approaching day—anxiety 501
A clerical “tip” 501
The journey to the fight 505
King defeats Mace for the Championship 505
King resigns the belt 509
A telegraphic message corrected 510
Heenan again in the field 510
Agrees to meet Heenan 511
Articles for £1,000 a side 511
Heenan in training 512
His pedestrian feats 512
Difficulties as to the place for combat 513
Three nights of watchfulness 513
Scene at London Bridge 513
The “roughs” at fault 513
A morning ride 514
Speculation; arrival at the ground 514
The ring at Wadhurst 515
The fight 516
King defeats Heenan 516
Remarks 517
Conclusion 518
L
LANGHAM, NAT.
His qualities and “unlucky” weight 234
Born at Hinckley, Leicestershire 234
His first fight 234
Comes up to London 235
An impromptu battle. Defeats Tom Lowe 235
Challenges Joe Bostock 235
Beats “Doctor” Campbell 236
Challenges; matched with Gutteridge 236
Defeats Gutteridge 237
Nat receives forfeit from Angelo and Gutteridge 238
Matched with Sparks the Australian 238
A trip per steamer and a strategic movement 239
Nat defeats Sparkes 240
In want of a customer 242
Matched with Harry Orme 242
Beaten by Harry Orme 243
Goes into business at Cambridge 243
Alec Keene, Tom Sayers, Harry Brunton 243
Nat matched with Tom Sayers 244
A trip per Eastern Counties Railway 245
A model mill; Nat defeats Tom Sayers 246
Tom and Nat, rival pubs 251
A ridiculous match. Langham and Ben Caunt 251
“A draw.” Nat dies at the “Cambrian,” Sept. 1st., 1871 252
L’ENVOY TO THE READER.
The extinction of the Ring 518
Fabricated accounts of Prize Fights 519
The Crusade against the Ring 519
The noble supporters of Boxing 519
Ages of the Champions from Broughton to Tom King 524
Parliamentary discussions 524
Railway directors and special trains 525
Anecdote of Lord Palmerston 526
Cant and cowardice versus manly courage 527
Farewell to the reader. Finis 528
M
MACE, JEM (Champion).
His merits as a boxer 444
Degeneracy of pugilists and Ring-patrons 444
Birth of Mace 444
His parentage 445
His travelling propensities 445
His first Ring fight 445
Matched with Bill Thorpe 445
Rapid increase in weight of some pugilists 445
Mace beats Bill Thorpe 445
Comes to London. Proposals for matches 448
Returns to Norwich, and matched with Mike Madden 449
A dispute and a disappointment 449
Six months’ quibbling 450
A new match and a “bolt” 450
Reappears as “George Brown’s Novice” 450
Matched with Bob Brettle 451
Beaten (?) by Bob Brettle 451
Appears as “Bob Brettle’s Novice” 452
Matched with Posh Price of Birmingham 452
Defeats Posh Price 453
Becomes a publican 454
Challenges; matched with Bob Travers (Black) 454
Career of Bob Travers 454
Beats Bob Travers (an adjourned fight) 456
Quarrel with Bob Brettle 457
Match for £200 with Brettle 458
Beats Brettle in an adjourned fight 459
Matched with Sam Hurst 459
The “Staleybridge Infant” 459
Defeats Sam Hurst 460
Mace hailed as Champion 462
Tom King challenges the title 462
Mace defeats Tom King 465
Heenan returns to England, 1861 468
Mace in business as a publican 468
Brettle backs “an Unknown” against Mace 469
Brettle receives £25 from King’s backers to retire 469
Mace defeated by Tom King 469
Matched with Joe Goss, of Wolverhampton 469
Mace stakes £600 to £400 on the part of Goss 469
Match-making “considerably mixed” 469
Fighting career of Joe Goss (note) 470
Precautions against police interruption 471
Riotous conduct of roughs at railway terminal 471
An early journey into Wiltshire 472
The “referee” difficulty again 472
A police intervention 473
A disappointment, and return to town 473
An adjournment “down the river” 473
The fight on Plumstead Marshes 474
Mace defeats Joe Goss 474
A “side-light” on “bogus” stakes 475
The anti-pugilistic press 476
The Morning Star and Dial 476
The Saturday Review: reflections on the fight 476
A “champion” from the New World 477
Mace and Coburn matched for £1,000 477
Cavilling negotiations 477
A sketch of Joe Coburn 477
Edwin James & Co. 478
Contrast of olden Ring “patrons” and modern Ring “agents” 478
Lord Shaftesbury an admirer of boxing (note) 478
Provincial tours 479
A journey to Dublin 479
A public “secret” more Hibernico 479
Press men in Dublin 480
Irish arrangements 480
A London celebrity 481
A scene at the rendezvous 481
Goold’s Cross, Limerick, named 481
A shindy, and the match “off” 482
A farce, and the a stakes claimed 482
The stakes drawn 482
Irish humour 483
An archiepiscopal hoax 483
Comments thereon 484
Colours and “good faith” 485
Mace offers to fight Coburn for £100 486
Degeneracy of the Ring 486
New “big ones” and the Championship 486
“Train-swindles” 486
Mace and Joe Goss’s second match 486
A “no-fight” 487
A new giant, O’Baldwin 487
O’Baldwin claims the belt 487
Mace’s “Unknown” 487
O’Baldwin and Joe Wormald for £200 487
O’Baldwin loses his way 487
Forfeits £200 to Wormald 487
Mace offers to fight O’Baldwin 487
Mace arrested and held to bail 488
Sam Hurst brought on the stage 488
Flight of the Champions to America 488
Their “doings” there 488
Mace beats Tom Allen at New Orleans 488
Returns to England 488
A publican at Melbourne, 1881 488
MASON, FRED (“the Bull-dog”) 309, 311
O
ORME, HARRY.
His birth. Harry an “East-ender” 253
His brief but brilliant career 253
Aaron Jones of Shrewsbury 253
Orme defeats Aaron Jones 254
Is matched with Nat Langham 256
Beats Nat Langham 257
A second match with Aaron Jones 259
The “ring,” at Newmarket 259
Hazardous ground. A shift 260
Fight No. 1 262
Fight No. 2. A second interruption 263
A misunderstanding. Jones refuses a third meeting. The victory awarded to Orme 266
The stakes given to Orme. Legal proceedings 268
Orme viewed as the “coming Champion” 269
Matched with Harry Broome 269
Defeated by Harry Broome 269
Becomes landlord of the “Jane Shore,” Shoreditch 269
His death, June 9, 1864 269
P
PADDOCK, TOM.
The Championship at the appearance of Tom Paddock 271
Tom fought the best men of the day 271
Born at Redditch 272
Beats Pearce, of Cheltenham 272
Defeats Elijah Parsons 272
Nobby Clarke 274
Paddock backed against and beats Clarke 274
Second match with Nobby Clarke 276
Clarke loses by a “foul” blow 276
Paddock as Johnny Broome’s Unknown 276
Loses the fight with Bendigo by a “foul” 276
Forfeit with the Tipton Slasher 276
“Draw” with the Tipton Slasher 276
Receives forfeit from Jack Grant 277
And from Con. Parker 277
Is beaten by Harry Poulson 277
Beats Harry Poulson 277
Convicted of “a riot,” and imprisoned ten months 278
Letter from “Lydon” on the affair 279
A third match with Poulson 279
Beats Harry Poulson a second time 280
Is a matched with Aaron Jones 283
Beats Aaron Jones 283
Aaron Jones’s qualifications 285
Paddock challenges the Championship 287
Receives £180 forfeit from Harry Broome, who is arrested 287
The late Mr. Vincent Dowling 288
Renewed match with Aaron Jones 288
Beats Aaron Jones 290
Harry Broome’s challenge 294
Preliminary proceedings 294
An excursion by the “Eastern Counties” rail 295
The fight; defeat of Harry Broome 299
Sympathy for the loser 302
The Tipton Slasher again 304
Tom forfeits to the “Tipton” 304
Challenges Tom Sayers. Alec Keene’s letter 305
Caunt challenges Sayers 305
Paddock’s serious illness; kindness of Tom Sayers 306
Paddock’s recovery. Match with Tom Sayers 306
Beaten by Tom Sayers 306
Beaten by Sam Hurst 307
His death, June 30th, 1863 307
PARKER, TASS.
His battles with the Tipton Slasher 191
His fight with Brassey of Bradford 347
Ditto with Harry Preston 351
PERRY, WILLIAM (“the Tipton Slasher”).
His birth at Tipton 157
The Slasher’s coup d’essai 157
Beats Tim Dogherty, near Chelsea 158
Returns to the “Black Country” 158
Fights and beats Ben Spilsbury 158
Matched with “the Gornel Champion” 159
Beats Jem Scunner, and becomes “a lion” 159
Tass Parker, Harry Preston, &c. 159
Forfeits £15 to Deaf Burke 160
Johnny Broome “manipulates” the “Tipton” 160
Charles Freeman, “the American Giant” 161
Theatres, the Circus, and the P.R. 161
A challenge to Freeman by “an Unknown” 161
William Perry is declared as “Broome’s Novice” 162
Matched for £150 against Freeman 162
The Giant “in training” 163
Description of Charles Freeman 164
Comparisons of bulk and strength of men 166
The journey to the field 167
A contrast 168
The fight interrupted by darkness 170
The return and its incidents 173
The adjourned battle; magisterial interference 176
Stanzas: “The unfinished fight of the American Giant and the Tipton Slasher” 177
A trip down the river agreed upon 179
Freeman’s benefit at the Westminster Baths 179
The voyage to the fighting ground 180
Aristocratic Ring-goers: “the Bishop of Bond Street” 180
“A shave:” Joe Banks, “the Stunner,” Jem Burn, &c. 181
The fight and defeat of the “Tipton” 182
The return: Dick Curtis’s benefit 185
A challenge to Caunt 185
The stakes given over to Freeman 186
Death of the American Giant, of consumption; infrequency of deaths from Ring encounters (note) 186
Johnny Broome and the “Slasher” 187
Tass Parker and the “Tipton” matched 187
Unsatisfactory result; police interruption 189
The adjourned battle 190
A railway “excursion” 190
A squabble about the referee 192
The fight: the “tumble-down system” 194
Johnny Hannan’s good conduct 195
The stakes given to the “Tipton” 196
Third battle with and defeat of Tass Parker 196
Challenge to Caunt, who declines to fight under £500 a side 199
Candidates for the Championship (note) 199
Tom Paddock 200
A forfeit, and a match with Paddock 200
A trip per South Western Rail 200
A day misspent: Wiltshire and Hampshire tabooed 201
A mill by moonlight 201
A “pig-shearing” excursion, and a “foul” blow 203
The Tipton claims the belt 204
Johnny Broome’s “Unknown” and the “Slasher” 204
Harry Broome “the Veiled Prophet” 204
Defeat of the “Slasher” by “Young Harry” 204
Receives forfeit from Harry Broome 205
Perry becomes a publican 205
Rise of Tom Sayers and his challenge of the Championship 205
Defeat of the “Slasher” by Tom Sayers 205
Death of Perry, in January, 1881 205
R
ROWE, JOE.
His fight with Harry Broome 314–321
In business, 1881 (note) 339
S
SAYERS, TOM (Champion).
His birthplace disputed 359
An Irish pedigree 359
Born at Pimlico, near Brighton 359
A bricklayer on the Preston Viaduct, at Brighton 360
Comes to London. First fight with Aby Couch 360
Matched with Dan Collins 360
First fight interrupted by darkness 361
Tom beats Dan Collins 361
Various challenges. Matched with Jack Grant 361
Beats Jack Grant 362
Matched with Jack Martin 365
Beats Jack Martin 366
Matched with Nat Langham 368
Tom’s first and last defeat 369
Langham declines a second encounter 369
Match with George Sims; £50 to £25 369
Beats George Sims 370
Proposes to go to Australia 370
Harry Poulson of Nottingham 371
Jem Burn, his backer, and Bendigo his trainer 371
Sayers defeats Poulson 373
The Championship in sight 379
A new belt and its claimants 380
The Championship in suspense 380
Sayers and Aaron Jones for £200 380
A change of route 381
A voyage down the river 381
Sayers fights Aaron Jones 383
A “draw” and darkness 386
Renewed battle with Jones 387
Sayers beats Aaron Jones 387
Challenges the Tipton Slasher 392
Excitement in the sporting world 393
Preliminaries of the battle 393
Sayers defeats the Tipton Slasher 395
Challenged by Tom Paddock 399
Paddock’s illness 399
Matched with an “Unknown” for £200 399
Bill Bainge, or Benjamin 399
First battle with Benjamin 400
Recovery of Paddock and his challenge accepted 401
The “Three Toms” 401
Anecdote of Alec Keene 402
Sayers defeats Tom Paddock 403
Tom Sayers against “the field” 404
Second match with “The Unknown” for £100 and the belt 406
Bill Benjamin once again 407
Sayers announces his intended retirement after his battle with Benjamin 408
Extraordinary rumours 409
The second defeat of Benjamin 410
Bob Brettle, of Birmingham 412
Sayers fights Brettle £400 to £200 412
£200 to £20 that Brettle was beat in ten minutes 412
Mr. John Gideon’s “arrangements” 413
A “monster” train 414
Bob Brettle’s career 414
Sayers defeats Brettle 416
Silly imputations on defeated pugilists 419
Aaron Jones returns to England 419
Defeat of Heenan by Morrissey 419
A challenge from America 420
Negotiations for an international contest for the belt 420
Aaron Jones in the field. He retires 420
A match proposed for Heenan and Sayers 420
Correspondence between New York and London 421
Arrival of Mr. Falkland. Preliminary arrangements 423
Heenan and Morrissey. Heenan lands at Liverpool 423
The day fixed, April 17th, 1860 423
A rush for “tickets” 423
Two monster trains 424
The journey down 424
A distinguished company 425
Appearance of the men 426
Pictorial representations of the battle (note) 426
The fight 427–432
Conflicting reports of the result 432
Departure of the referee 433
Return to town 433
Condition of the men 433
Humane decision 434
Two belts ordered 434
Circus buncombe 434
Subscription for Sayers at Stock Exchange, Lloyd’s, Mark Lane, &c. 435
Sayers a partner in a circus 435
Free living and its results 435
Sayers’s last appearance in the Ring 435
The needs of consumption 436
Last illness 436
His death 437
£1,000 invested for his children 437
Tom Sayers’s personal appearance 437
His grave and monument in Highgate Cemetery 438
The Combat of Sayerius and Heenanus—“A Lay of Ancient London” 439
T
THOMPSON, WILLIAM, of Nottingham (“Bendigo”).
His birth: one of three sons 5
Nottingham Lambs. Puritanism and Pugilism 5
Early battles, and first fight with Caunt 6
Challenged by Brassey (John Leechman), of Bradford, and others 7
Beats Brassey 8
Receives forfeit from Jem Bailey 8
Comes to London 8
Proposed match with Molyneaux, and forfeit from Flint of Coventry 9
Defeats Langan of Liverpool 9
Challenges any 12 stone man in England 9
Looney’s challenge replied to by Jem Ward 10
Looney declines Ward and is beaten by Bendigo 10
Challenges from Tom Britton, Fisher, Molyneaux, &c. 12
Matched a second time with Caunt 13
Beaten by Caunt 13
Caunt forfeits in a new match 14
Deaf Burke returns from America, his challenge accepted 14
Burke goes to France and the match falls through 14
Stanzas from Bendigo to Deaf Burke 15
Burke returns and articles are signed 16
Narrow escape of Bendigo 17
Shrove Tuesday at Ashby-de-la-Zouch 17
The road to Appleby 18
Bendigo beats Deaf Burke 18
Challenges from and to Caunt. Benefit humbugs 22, 24
Bendigo in London. A serious accident 24
“The fine old English Pugilist;” a fancy chaunt 25
Bendigo redivivus appears at Jem Burn’s 26
Matched with Tass Parker 26
Arrested at the instance of his brother and held to bail 27
Caunt returns from his American tour 27
Renewed negotiations and “A Valentine from Bendigo to Brassey” 27
Third match with Caunt 28
Preliminaries of the fight 29
Bendigo defeats Caunt 30
Disputed result and decision of “the Old Squire” (Osbaldiston), the referee 36
Caunt and Bendigo shake hands 37
Pretenders to the Championship 37
Bendigo accepts Tom Paddock’s challenge 38
Defeats Paddock 39
Receives the battle-money and retires from the Ring 45
Bendigo’s eccentricities. Takes “the pledge” and becomes a preacher 45
Beelzebub and Ben Caunt; an anecdote 45
True etymon of the nickname “Bendigo” 46
Dies from the effects of an accident, aged sixty-nine 46
TRAVERS, BOB (Langham’s Black).
His Ring career 454
Beaten by Brettle 454
Beaten by Jem Mace 455
W
WARD, NICHOLAS.
His claims to a place in this “History” 206
His birth in East London 206
His maiden battle with Jack Lockyer 206
Matched with Jem Wharton (Young Molyneaux) 206
Arrested and held to bail 207
A journey to Moulsey and a disappointment 208
A black job: Sambo Sutton 209
“Nick” is defeated ignominiously 210
“Brother Jem” backs Nick for a second trial 210
Misgivings: a “Beak” at Bicester 210
The Philistines out 211
Drawing a badger 212
A fight and a fiasco 212
Matched with Jem Bailey 212
A trip to Woking: an interrupted fight 213
A second match; Nick forfeits to Bailey 214
A match with Brassey “no go” 214
Articled to fight the “Deaf’un” 214
A trip to Stony Stratford 219
Adventures 220
Nick defeats “the Deaf’un;” a wrangle 221
Challenges Ben Caunt 223
The stakes awarded to Nick Ward 224
Matched with Ben Caunt 225
A long journey and its vicissitudes 226
Hostility of the “beaks” 227
The fight: a bloodless victory for Ward 229
A chaunt of the Ring: “Nick Ward and Caunt” 231
The stakes given to “Nick” 232
Second fight with Caunt, and defeat 232
Death of Nick Ward, Feb. 17, 1850 233
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