Sporting Anecdotes, Original And Selected: Including Numerous Characteristic ...
Sporting Anecdotes, Original And Selected: Including Numerous Characteristic ...
Pierce Egan
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Jack Slack: rendered a pugilist of some prominency, by his victory over Broughton, and in being elevated to the rank of Champion!— He was a man of considerable strength and bottom; firmly made; in height, about five feet eight inches and an half, and in weight nearly as heavy as Broughton, but not quite fourteen stone. Slack was very little indebted to science, and trusted to a me- thod almost exclusively his own: his blows were generally well put in, and given with a most dreadful force. His a...ttitudes were by no means impressive; there was a want Digitized by LiOOQ LC 980 BOXEES OF THE OLD SCHOOL. of elegance in his positions to attract the attention of the spectators, and he appeared as a most determined fighter, scarcely giving time to his adversary to breathe, and beni upon nothing else but victory. He stood remarkably up- Tight, guarding his stomach with his right hand, and as if protecting his mouth with his left. Whenever Slack meditated giving a blow upon any particular part of his antagonist, he rushed in furiously, regardless of the con- sequences of a knock-down blow in the attempt.
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