Concerning a Dog Fight

Good read. Thanks!

 

Very nice read!

 

i wonder how many men back then, would leave a dog lie on its belly :confused: between scratches !!

 

is it not allowed? or would you call it off at that point?

 

I tell you what that mofo can lay on his back if he wants long as he went across nothing else matters

 

i say your the type of guy that talks the talk........

 

The bloke who wrote that is a famous Australian poet/story teller he wrote a few on the topic i'll see if i can dig some more up...

 

Good post. I crossposted it to FAPBTA forum.

mdoggz: if you find the authors storys please post them here too.

 

Very nice post. Thanks.

 

A B Banjo patterson was a famous Aussie poet, but wrote many books with storys, this however was the only one regarding dog matching in Australia during the first settling era. "Song of the bush" was one of three huge books in a series containing most of his work. My old man had them but i cant remember the other two.
This story was in an old AGDT mag and when i saw it years ago i was stoked to find we had a history that old with the breed here. And the person who sent it to AGDT is actually an aussie who is a member here, if he sees this he may chime in and let you know where he got it from.


Mdoggs if you can find more id be keen to see them, thought this was the only one.

 

Veryy good readd

 

Very, very good!
"Author: "Banjo" Paterson
Published May 18th, 1895"
Did not expect that. Could of been written today.
:goodposting::goodposting:

 

I enjoyed every bit of it as well

 

That was indeed a very good read.

 

awesome timeless writing good post mate

 

I found this story in the book by Jack Pollard called 'Wild Dogs, Working Dogs, Pedigrees and Pets' which was published in 1968, and sent it into Fat Bill, which is how it ended up in the American Gamedog Times.
I have since found out that it was also published in the Sporting Dog Journal in 1984. Carl Winn was the guy that sent it into the SDJ.

 

Banjo Patterson wrote another story on bulldogs that appeared in the same book. I'm not sure when it was written or what the original source was though. Here it is -

"The earnest and thorough of the dog tribe is the fighting dog. His intense self respect, his horror of brawling, his cool determination, make him a pattern to humanity. The bull-dog or bull-terrier is generally the most friendly and best tempered dog in the world; but when he is put down in the ring he fights till he drops, in grim silence, though his feet are bitten through and through, his ears are in rags, and his neck is a hideous mass of wounds.
In a well conducted dog-fight each dog in turn has to attack the other dog, and one can see fierce earnestness blazing in the eye of the attacker as he hurls himself on the foe. What makes him fight like that? It is not blood-thirstiness because they are neither savage nor quarrelsome dogs : A bulldog will go all his life without a fight, unless put in a ring. It is simply their strong self respect and stubborn pride which will not let them give in. The greyhound snaps at his opponent and then runs for his life, but the fighting dog stands till death.
Just occasionally one sees the same type of human being - some quiet spoken, good tempered man who has taken up glove fighting for a living, and who perhaps gets pitted against a man a shade better than himself. After a few rounds he knows he is overmatched, but there is something at the back of his brain that will not let him cave in. Round after round he stands punishment, and round after round he grimly comes up till, possibly, his opponent loses heart or a fluky hit turns the scales in his favour.
These men are to be found in every class of life. Many of the gamest of the game are mere gutter bred boys who will continue to fight long after they have endured enough punishment to entitle them to quit. You can can see in their eyes the same hard glitter that shows in the bulldog's eye as he limps across the ring, or in the eye of the racehorse as he lies down to it when his opponent is outpacing him. It is grit, pluck, vim, nerve force; call it what you like, and there is no created thing that has more of it than the dog"

 

man that was a good read!!!!

 

I made a mistake, it was Larry Bell that sent the story into the SDJ & it was in 1986 not 1984.

 

Great Ending