Great international fight in England, between John C. Heenan (Benicia Boy) and Tom Sayers for the champion's belt of England.
9 drawings of Heenan in training.
| Format: | Photo |
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| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
[Frank Leslie],
1860.
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Table of Contents:
- Heenan takes a ten mile walk before breakfast with his trainer, changing his stick from hand to hand
- Heenan going through "grooming" after pedestrian exercises, the rubbing down process for reducing the flesh and hardening the muscles
- Heenan developing the "forceps" by fighting the "bag" with fifty pound dumb-bells
- Heenan's exercising boots and clubs
- Heenan clad in his "sweating" clothes, rides out fifteen miles, and races the "flyer" home, loses much flesh by the operation
- One of the many ways of improving the "wind", hardening the muscles of the chest, and giving endurance to the man in "training"
- Exhilarating exercises for sweating the whole body, rolling, chasing and picking up small cannon ball
- Guard and "counter hit"-- Heenan sets-to and is struck at with left, by springing lightly one step backwars and the blow falls short.