Ulysses
—Myler dusted the floor with him, says Alf. Heenan and
Sayers was only a bloody fool to it. Handed him the father
and mother of a beating. See the little kipper not up to his
navel and the big fellow swiping. God, he gave him one last
puck in the wind, Queensberry rules and all, made him
puke what he never ate.
It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy
were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sover-
eigns. Handicapped as he was by lack of poundage, Dublin’s
pet lamb made up for it by superlative skill in ringcraft.
The final bout of fireworks was a gruelling for both cham-
pions. The welterweight sergeantmajor had tapped some
lively claret in the previous mixup during which Keogh
had been receivergeneral of rights and lefts, the artillery-
man putting in some neat work on the pet’s nose, and Myler
came on looking groggy. The soldier got to business, lead-
ing off with a powerful left jab to which the Irish gladiator
retaliated by shooting out a stiff one flush to the point of
Bennett’s jaw. The redcoat ducked but the Dubliner lifted
him with a left hook, the body punch being a fine one. The
men came to handigrips. Myler quickly became busy and
got his man under, the bout ending with the bulkier man
on the ropes, Myler punishing him. The Englishman, whose
right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was
liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came
on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out
the fistic Eblanite in jigtime. It was a fight to a finish and
the best man for it. The two fought like tigers and excite-
ment ran fever high. The referee twice cautioned Pucking