A DETAILED account of a furious dog fight in The Tything, Worcester, a century ago this week was recounted in highly amusing terms by Crowquill in his Journal comment column of 1901.

"There was a sporting dog fight in The Tything on Friday last - and a still more sporting intervention by a policeman.

"A bull dog and a collie started a hullabaloo. Their jaws were soon interlocked, and there was a triumph of dust and fury for several minutes. The collie's owner belaboured the bull dog with a stick but the animal would not relax its hold.

"However, the courageous constable then arrived. He seized the hind leg of the bull dog which still hung tenaciously to its foe. The officer dealt the bull dog a couple of raps on the nose with his truncheon and it let go.

''However, lest the brute should transfer its grip on to his own limbs, the officer swung the dog round and out of reach with a great sweep. The dog staggered and reeled like a drunken man and crawled away ignominiously. It was suffering from probably the nearest canine approach to a headache.

"Wild horses will not drag from Crowquill the constable's name for fear the owner of the sweet, gentle, inoffensive bull dog should nurse a spirit of resentment."