THE AUSTRALIAN RING.

NZ Truth, Issue 439, 22 November 1913, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN RING.

REMINISCENCES AND RECORDS. (By ;"Roxer Major.") Copyright: All Rights Reserved by the Author. /{CHAPTER XVIH.)

In. my mention of the BrophyCurly Ellison knuckle fight, m last chapter, I wrote "Brophy won." This was true, but- there was a qualifying factor. Two reputable persons, who saw the scrap, declaro -to me; that Ellison gave m out of >sheer humanity, and, as he thought, to save Brophy's life ahd his own imprisonment or .exile. The Qght aros& over a blow struck by Brophy, who took Ellison by surprise. Curly .was "picking up" a man named Jones, who was fighting 'one Simpson, and when Simpson waa beaten, and while Curiy, was."attending to his man, Brophy walked up and "woodened" Ellison. Curly said afterwards that he Tdid not know.a thing till he found himself stripped (Brophy was) noted for his punch), but as -he ; was the cleverest. .man of his day—"as clever as Grifto," says 6ne old-timo' sport, who, was .one of his companions —Curly soon had the awkward left-hander m such a state that the crowd ran away, shouting that it would be "another Kieler killing case"; the death of that pugilist being fresh m people's mind. Ellison, says one reliable informant, had not a mark, while Brophy was slashed to pieces. ,T I used, to.know Curly \vcll.\vhen 'he, knocked a-bout the old .White Horsy hall,* behind Larry Foley's, .hotel of that namo",. and __ have seen'him hox a prelimi-i__Jt^,tH,eiVin;..'s He was'.H-'et^'. smart,..Sjj.&iv „lhe,.,g)ov.e^,.,tbAvife^ ""at-A--that; time,.hp.had ;,allowe,d, hiujiseU.^o. become a has-been. He, is still to' be seen ai'ound Sydney. -~' ', An,old friend of the White Horse days —he was a very smart young friend then—camo to light last week with the following letter:— "Dear ' Boxer-Major,'—Reading your r rtminiscchces of'the Australian ring, which I do with great delight, you'me«biori"the Tbawson-A'gar fl^htr* also! you have-'hotvhieard-; of«^Laws©n'j since ho-ldft Australia l'ftfit^Aifriend^ of iditlts'"Wote~mc from Amctfarsointi? years'" back?: if memory tfcrVes** rat/* right, he paid Lawson —died m America from consumption; .. *•- "I ouite admired your notice of the GrifTo-Chiddy Kyan spars;, they wero a treat without a doubt. I am afraid wo will never see such "spars acrain. I have heard good judges of the game, who have' travelled tho world and saw all j the. chammons m;) their day; say -that GFirco>^n&»Kyaji< made the best boxing ' exhfbition they ever saw, by a long way. 1 ] i ' i I : '