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ping blow from the elbow seemed to puzzle Jackson, His 

 mighty shoulder-hits didn't come off; he couldn't get past 

 Dan's guard, and at the close of the third round the 

 betting was 2 to i on Mendoza. 



But then a change came over the scene, and the form he 

 showed in the fourth round fairly electrified the spectators. 

 He knocked the Jew like a shuttlecock all round the ring. 

 His crashing blows from the shoulder broke through 

 Mendoza's guard time after time, and sent him reeling 

 against the rails. At last one fearful smack laid open the 

 whole of Dan's cheek and sent him sprawling on the boards. 

 This was a new style of fighting altogether. No one there 

 had ever seen anything like it before. Mendoza's science 

 seemed to be nowhere against it, and there was silence 

 among his backers when his downfall came. 



Never before had the Jew met with such unceremonious 

 treatment, and there was a smile on Jackson's face which 

 made the punishment all the more galling to the Champion, 

 who had been used to profound respect from his antagonists. 

 Shaken and dazed, but full of pluck, Mendoza once more 

 faced his formidable foe. Jackson regarded him for a 

 moment, and then strode suddenly forward, and as Dan fell 

 back shot out his open left, clutched the Jew by his long, 

 curly black hair (which Mendoza was too proud of to have 

 cut), forced his head down, upper-cut him savagely in the 

 face till the blood ran in streams from nose and mouth, and 

 flung the Jew from him like an empty sack, full length upon 

 the boards. Mendoza's backers were furious ; " Foul ! 

 Foul ! " they shouted. But there was no rule then against 

 holding by the hair, and the referee decided that Jackson was 

 perfectly within his right to act as he did ; though Dan 

 always maintained that Jackson had taken an unfair 

 advantage of him, and I think the Jew had some grounds 

 for his charge. Such an exhibition had the " Gentleman " 

 made of the Jew in these last two rounds that 2 to i on 

 Jackson found no takers. 



For the next three rounds the Jew kept entirely on the 

 defensive; but, do what he would, he could not get away 

 from Jackson's resolute attack. Smash through his guard 

 came those sledge-hammer blows, and sent him spinning 



