AN EXTRAORDINARY FIGHT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3141, 22 July 1881, Page 4

AN EXTRAORDINARY FIGHT.

An extraordinary pugilistic encounter took place at Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 12, between two men named Holloway and Walker. Holloway is 7ft 9in in height, weighs 5001bs, and has been refarded as one of the strongest men living ; talker stands 7ft 9|in in height, and weighs 5501b. For a long time attempts had been made to bring these giants together in a trial of strength, but no arrangements could be arrived p.t. When at last a match was made, crowds came from all parts to witness the encounter. The men when stripped, says the N. Y. Mail, for the fight, presented a sight seldom seen in modern times. Their large and bulging muscles produced a sort of awe among the spectatois, who remained in a state of profound silence during the long and terrible struggle. The men clinched and went to work with little ceremony. All efforts on the part of either to throw the other were fruitless. They tugged until each was stripped almost naked, and until both were reeking with perspiration and covered from hand to feet with bruises. Both ffntilly become perfectly enraged, and they fell upon each other in what was now believed to be mortal combat, the ferocity of which made bystanders move back in terror, no one daring to interfere. The giants struck each other with blows that fell with weight sufficient to make pulp of ordinary bodies, each thud sounding like destruction. After over an hour of this terrific work, during which, although both were covered with cuts and lumps, neither seemed to become exhausted, Walker, by a tremendous swinging blow, planted his fist with stunning forcejsquarely uponHolloway's throat, knocking him senseless to the ground, where he lay a moment as if dead. He recovered and stood up again to fight, when Walker again disabled him with a similar blow. From the effects of this second fall Holloway did not recover for a long time. When he did at last, he gave up the fight, and went away crestfallen and brokenhearted. He subsequently refused to show himself, and started on a lonely walk home, saying he would never show his face again*