Co9l write up I found: 'The remark was then made to Heenan that Sayers was a great little man. "He is a great MAN," said Heenan; "but a 'little man' do you call him? I wish you could see your 'little man.' That's a strange idea some of you have about Sayers' size. Why, I tell you, he is two inches broader across the shoulders than I am (glancing at his own immense chest), but not so deep, and when we are both stripped Sayers seems the larger man of the two of us. I don't know how it is, but it's so." In answer to many interrogatories, and with that modesty which has always distinguished him, Heenan said that he lost his left hand in the third round of the fight. After that he had to close it before he left his second's knee, and then some one would holler, "You've got something in it," and he would have to open and close it again with his right hand. He could not strike hard with it, and every time he did strike the pain went to his heart. It was in the thirty-ninth round he got Sayers under his arm to give him a squeeze, since he could not hit him with his left hand. His other arm was over the rope, with which it got entangled while he was trying to hit Sayers. Then they cut the ropes, hit him with clubs, and cut him from head to foot. Shepard hit him with a club, in spite of Bob Brettle's flourishing a whip and threatening to knock Shepard's brains out. Then they pushed Sayers up, only to be knocked down and caught in chancery again. Welch then tripped up Heenan, everything being in confusion, and howling away. When Heenan went back to his second, he told him what Welch had done, and that now he should whip not only Sayers, but "the whole bloody corner." He went to the scratch, and called upon Sayers to come out or throw up the sponge. Sayers was leaned up against a stake in order to stand erect. Welch came between Heenan and Sayers, and Heenan knocked Welch down, then Broughton, and then hit Savers, who fell half over, supported by the stake. Then he took a chair at the scratch, and if any referee had been there he would have had the fight.' - From Sacramento Daily Union, 4th August 1860 This content is protected
