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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English and Yankee "International" prize fight. (search)
n his daily excursions he was also generally accompanied by Bill Royal, who is matched to fight Mace for the championship in December next, and who is also training at Newmarket. King has also gone into training; but we have not yet heard of the locality he has selected, or who are his mentors. Jack Macdonald, the staunch friend and second of Heenan, will be with the latter during the last two weeks of his preparation, to put the final polish upon him for the great encounter on the 8th of December next. The last deposit ($500 a side) of the stake of $10,000, was fixed for the 19th inst., when the whole amount would have been deposited. Both men have issued their colors — an expression which requires a word of explanation. In England it is the invariable custom for the principals in a prize fight to dispose of a large number of silk neckerchiefs of various fancy patterns, which are termed their "colors" among their respective friends, under the expressed condition that if succ