The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30

4dlAGu 10 get any Cl6W 10 the auLnOf OF Un6
report. Mr.. Brady denies having made
any such statement and ] add my own de-
nial to his. 1t is simply a newspaper
story manufactured for space and sensa
tion as was that of the contest being for
percentage
MIR. Brady viii have nothing further
TO say on this subject, or any other per-
tanning to the matter, as both he ana l
are tired of being continually misquoted."
Regarding Mitchell's continual slurs
| atme," continued Corbett, II have this to
say: Mitchell says he has never broken
his contracts, but / shall recall to his
mind and public recollection, three flag
rant instances well known in the sporting
world. One of these was when he was
| matched to fight William Sheriff, the
Prussian,' and backed square out Of every
signed agreement. Another came to
my knowledge when an ex-governor of
| Missouri came to my room when / was
playing in Kansas City, and said to me:
Mitchell will never meet you. When he
was matched against Slade through the
| instrumentality of his friends, he had
me stop the fight. Another occasion
when contract was a Straw bail to him,
was year ago last February, when he
was matched to box me six rounds at
Madison Square Garden, New York, and
skipped to England at the last moment,
leaving only note for me. On this oc-
casion had put up 81 100 for the hall and
was training at Atlantic City. When
Mitchell reached London he told that
was sick and could not meet him."
REMEMBERED BY M'vEY.
At this tuncture McVey entered the
room and COrbett asked him what was
the date that Mitchell skipped the fight.
February, 1892 answered McVey.
"How do you remember it so quiCkly2"
asked the reporter.
Because tried to stay against Cor
bett for four rounds, that's how"
"Now," continued Corbett, when the
| laugh at McVey's expense had subsidized,
"these are facts which are undisputable
in the sporting world, and Mitchell may
| deny them, but he can't disprove them.
| Another thing he says is that l never
| hold my friends. ] am glad that am so
fortunate in my friends that present cir
| cumstances refute that statement. /
have with me now as my guest Porter
Ashe, the man who first was my backer,
who has stuck to me ever since. Billy
Delaney and Joe McVey, my first train
ers. Edward Kearney, who backed me
| against Sullivan, has written me that he
will be down next week. Can Mitchell
say as much2 His friends not only leave
him but he leaves his friends. When he
seconded hiirain he left him to be cared
| by others and fed
in scooping the American dollar, as he is
known to have said at a supper in Eng
land that Americans were a lot of sewer
rats
Zone thing more concerning him. He
| endeaYors to become very sarcastic and
SAYS | am starring around the country as
| 'Gentleman Jim.' This is newspaper
| sobriquet and not of my seeking, but IL
| would be impossible for Mitchell to be
called Gentleman Charlie save in finest
! irony. He served at six months hard
labor in England for hitting an old man
80 years of age, and this is why / know
can whip him. No man who could be
| guilty of that act can lick an American.
Il have made this long talk, " concluded
Corbett, simply because it is the last
| time ] shall take the trouble to refute
anything Mitchell may say. He can
make any assertion he pleases, and find
some one who will believe it, but neither
nor any of my party will say anything
| further concerning Mitchell and his slurs
and innuendoes. All 1 ask is that when
these things appear the public will sim
| ply compare his record and my own"
MITCHELL ANSWERS CoRBETT.
While Mitchell and his party were
viewing the Ponce de Leon this morning,
| papers brought to the English champion
! Corbett's alleged sayings ref1ecting upon
Mitchell's record, both as a pugilist and
personally. When the plucky English
man first read Corbett's language he
| laughed; then, as his eyes saw the word
Convict" his blood boiled, and it would
not have been well had Corbett been
present, but as he looked upon the plunge
baths in the Casino, he said: "F'latu-
| lency is very disagreeable ailment, and
GentlemanJames should not feelaggrieved
at me fornfurnishing him the means by
which to relieve himself"
"Why," he continued to the MORNING
NEWS correspondent, in reply to the as
| sertion made in the Jacksonville paper
this morning, "COrbett says | failed to
keep match with Sheriff, the Prussian.
| Such is not the case / fought Sheriff
six rounds, and no other match was made
that l know of. My conduct all through
this match refutes his statement that
ran away to England to avoid meeting
him (Corbett) in Madison Square Garden
A telegram from M. A. Brady stated that
| it would be impossible to give the show
on account Of police interference. The
only running am conscious Of doing with
| Corbett was to run after him. Corbett
appears to take delight in twittng me
about doing time in England, for beating
an old man. l served two months, not
six as Corbett says, for an alleged assault
in London, and felt that displayed on
| that occasion a trait of character that
has not as yet manifested itself in Gen
tleman Jim. l took the medicine, al
though the assault was committed by one
of the party with me at the time, and
| kept my mouth shut 10 save a friend. [
have never stated in any of my
contests that my hands were broken
and that could not fight as
! COrbett did when he met the negro, Peter
! jackson, in California, as he at that time
stated to Mai. mclaughlin, when, in
| truth, his hands were then as when be-
| ginning the fight" The party are indig-
nant at Corbett's interview, and there
seems TO be an inclination to recall the
| breaking of an old janitor's jaw when
| Corbett huked in his match with Jim
| Daily in Cotton, Cal. Some one dropped q
! hint about mean tricks when Mitchell re-
! torted mo friend of his should refer to
any mans brutality to a woman, neither
should they, in his presence, mention the
| doings of Big Indian Jim"
| He simply intended to meet Corbett in
the ring and inflict the punishment de-
| served. He also suggested that Gentle
/ man Jim had better refer the public to
| Charley Stencil than 10 Porter Ashe
! believe Mr.. Stencil was Corbett's first
hacker. Perhaps the gentlemanly pugi-
/ list doesn't care TO have Mr.. Stencil
! heard on the subject. Mitchell said that
| he intended giving thought 10 nothing
| else than preparing for the contest, and
the correspondent left him on Anastasia
| Island just as he started out with his
trainer for the first sweating His quar-