Remarks on the contest.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1836, 28 February 1863, Page 4

Remarks on the contest.

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Although it is our general custom to give elaborate observations on the different phases of fights- for the championship, our labours are materially shortened on this occasion, not only by thebrevHy of Hue combat, but by the paucity of objects for comment. King certainly fought better and more confidently than on the former occasion, and, were he only a little steadier, would prove a very dangerous customer to any man breathing. He is fresh, youug, strong, and a Very hard hitter, but the anxiety he displays throughout to be doing something, is so, great. that it frequently leads him into mischief, which a little lrioie consideration and fore* thought might avoid. Of Mace little is required to, be. said; -No one who saw the mill will doubt that he lost it by a' fluke. He had the game almost entirely in his own hands until the nineteenth sound,' and haclhe not been so overconfident, we believe must have won. It will be a lesson to him in future not to hold too cheap' an. 'opponent who, however, deficient in science, may still have a dangerous hit in him, which, even by. accident, or something akin to it, asm, this, pase, may, confound the most experienced {actician, and bring him to grief.