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BO X I N G.Humphries and Mendoza.The battle between thefc two champions at Don-caster, having been their concluding conteft, fet on foot with a view of determining on which fide lay the fuperiority in the art of Boxing, we have inferted a more ample account of the buSnefe than is generally given to details of this nature. 4 Maintaining a mode of conduct exactly oppofite to tliat of fome of the other daily papers, who have reprefen ted the whole affair with a molt fhameful partiality, the writer of the.articlc in q.ucflion has avoided. every pofiible degree of bias or prejudice; and, in order ftill further to fatisfy the publick curioiUy, he concludes with a general ftatement of the various rounds, as they were regularly minuted down at the time of their bein'g fought.ifl Round. Sudden and violent. Both fell. .2. A rajlymg round again.' Humphries liruck Mendoza oftencP. • .They both received many blows.3. Rathe.* a longfct-to, before nnyftroke was given. They were mutually. cautious, and watched each other. Mendoza knocked’Humphries down.4*.Mendoza ftruck Humphries in the face. Humphries, returned. Mendoza knbdeed lnm down.5. Humphries aimc d a powerful blow at the.flonia:h. Men-. doza topped it. Humphries hit Mendoza in the faec.Mendoza Yeftirned it. Humphries fell.-6. Several imart Wows.: 'Humphries down. .7. H«Mphiric3 atoedtixe^ftrikblow* . .Mendoza, r^dracd,d cut 18Si down the cheek. Humphrics fell.i;‘Many blows 0:1 both fides. Humphries fell. ^^Humphries hit Mendoza cm the iide; and fell.: . ^.Humphries ftruck at Mendoza-often in the face, and.. . - ‘ • • U;-Humphries aimed a quick blow at the tomach. Mcnv doza flopped; ftruckiu the.face;-and Humphries fell.11...Humphries made.a rufH at Mendoza, and ftruck him in : -tlie face. Mehdoza' returnsd twice, and H. fell.t Mendoza ftruck H* in the face, and Humphries fell. I4. Clofbd.. Humphries fclL •'£j. Huinpbrics aimed at the ftomach. Mendoza flopped.* A finart round. Humphries fell,1$. Humphries ftruck jit the face. •. Mendoza flopped, re-\ turned, and Humphries fell/\* lj. Humphries aimed at the face. Mendoza topped, and was atout to return, wh’en'Humphries fell. (Cry of ' fnt!,fcxd /. in confluence-Ojffi.umphrics’ dropping with-... out a Wow 2_ fucceeded by* a cry of fair,fair I) it:. JVfendoeaaim^d.ai FJjmjphriet* face. Humphries fell ; .withouta blow. -•. ; ....Mendoza ftruck H. oyer thebrcaft. Humphries fell. Hb. -^endozi fitiick Humphries In the face.* Seemed to forget that he was4lt;fc Waning, and hit him twice open-. ■; handed.. HunapfariesfelLits Humphries fyrung forward^ and ftruck twice. - Menr . doza leaped backward, .and .out-reaching.the violence of . • the blcnys, flopped thenvre^turned,and Humphries fell.'%%. Humphries anned *at the ftomach; ‘ JVIeirdoza flopped, r: returned, and. Humphries fell. •23. Clofzi^v . BloYs ftn^Tnrifhis .awkward Ctuatidny.b.y, heth. Humphries hit Mendoza in ^thefaqe. Mendoza returned, and, in this' cibfe-fighting, Humphries fell.24. Clofe-fighting; Htimphies fell; Mendoza ftruck him before he wai down. . .Both ftruck. many. blow% ,in an inftant, and clofed.•; Struggled to throw each other. Mehdoza threw Humphries. - ;•An excellent round,fuftamed with rapidity and violence• oa both/Udcs. Humphi’ies fell.27. HinftphrieVftruck. Mendoza flopped,' and returned.•/ ¥|hick again, and Mendoza aded in the fame manner/'Humphries hit Mendoza, undfir, or upm the left ear, and fell.' . • v28. Several blctfs by both. Humphries hit MendoZ'a. Mendoza returned, and Humphries fell.'j*9. Several blows, t Humphries hit 'M. Mendoza returned, and Humphries fell*.....30. Several blows. Humphries received £ bIow on the fare,‘and fell.2 X Short round. Humphries ftruck Mendoza, and cut him .hear the right temple. Mendozailuick again, and Hnm-1 juries’ fell.,3*. .Humphries ftruck. Mendoza flopped it, and ftruck '*jjain. Humphriesfell. • • lt;• ;33. Clofe-fighting. Mendoza ikruok fhort blows, und Humphries fell. .....34. Be verul’ ftrbkes. Mendoza, lilt Humphries a Imart fciowon thc^fdce,aiid Humphrks«felL35... Hu*nphric« , %rur^ ivrwatd,. -and .rfhutfk. IMcndoza ftdpped, and Humpteres.fell, app.imxtly .without aAow. .36. Mcndora ftruck. Hi mphrics in the face. FQ;iowe4 it up under blow* .*i2umphries feft. -;Humphr«s *gtiQ)ed Mendoza. Scrjxck. un-• jder-Akws -with fais reight -ann, and .hts- fefc at ihis body*. Mendoza Abiding ijuiqplirie*. with. -his lef;, re-* turned in the^ace, with his^iigRt'hanc!.j -aii Hurnyhrtes being rcareft thc rails in this clofe coitttft, *fcaU 'his head hxt4gaiufbth^,and2fell. .r ...Several ineffi^iual aia.a.-attempted, t when -Mendoza touttfe^WijAricsin the iaci*, imd^Hunjphries felL 39. Tffamjftiw ftruck^ *McndasairetQmed, retreat-insi'and'Huntpiiri^fell.■ * ^ . • j, *^ r I^ wnlwftd
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Tue, Oct 05, 1790
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