A "PURRING" MATCH.
BRUTAL EXHIBITION OF SHINKICKING. Nii\v York, March 10.—A sickening shinkicking, or " purring" contest, wns held in a barn at East Orange, N.J., lately, the brutes participating being Jack Fawcett and Will Wilson. They wore canvas jackets, knee breeches, no stockings, and shoes with wooden soles, the tips of the toes being of iron. Each man grasped his competitor's coat collar, and after some minutes' plunging and parrying, Fawcctt landed his left toe upon Wilson's leg, laying open the flesh to the bone. This elicited a round of applause from the spectators, which was renewed when shortly afterwards Witeou retaliated upon his antagonist's shin. The sport then continued without any interruption, each thud of the iron-toed ahoes upon the quivering flesh being followed by applause. 80 it went on for ten minutes, when Wilson began to show signs of weakening, and Li« kick became less vicious, while he was unable successfully to parry Fawcett'a blows. Five minutes latter he fell powerless to the floor I and Fawcett stumbled over him, Fav/uett 1 was declared the winner.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7650, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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