PRIZE-FIGHTING EXTRAORDINARY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1056, 6 July 1883, Page 2

PRIZE-FIGHTING EXTRAORDINARY.

All English gentleman whips Jem M!ace. Slade won’t fig-Ixt. The Chicago papers of 3rd Junei publish a despatch from London, giving further particulars of Lord Charles Beresford’s fight with Mace. His Lordship, it is stated, challenged the ? Maori and Mace; and a ; set-to, without gloves, was arranged. Mane accepted the challenge, and the fighters met in a specially-arranged private ijroom near the Elephant and Castle publichouse, inrthe .Borough Road. *The Prince/pf: Walesa was present, surrounded by -a large number of •aristocratic “ sports ”■ and private gentlemeri. Heavy betting was indulged in. J ’ After several exciting rounds, in. which some excellent science was displayedjan bpth. sides,■ Mace failed to come'jo time, and finally acknowledged himself badly ( beaten..; Lord Charles woii an easy .victory,., •without a i scratch;-- When; he 'blemished with Mace he invited-Slade to^ke“* v turn, but the Maori refused io’enter theming. Mace took his ■ defeat 1 quietly..' It 'is'now known that Lord Charles had'intimated to his Royal Highness that an English, gentleman could always whip a professional fighter, and he had expessed a determination to meet Jem Mace and the Maori on the first opportunity. His Lordship, it will be remetabereed, commanded tTie. Condor .gunboat tin the daring attack at close quarters with the Alexandrian forts during the Egyptian war. ' •'