The evening world., 1893-10-30
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
More Talk Anent the Corbett-
Mitchell Fistio Affair.
Football Now Has n Monopoly vi
Outdoor sports.

\ man who knows IA few things about
! oxers said TO the writer: Charley
Mitchell will never box Jim Corbctt at
the Coney Island Athletic club or any
other club, in fact, unless he gets one
tnird 'rake-off' OF the receipts And at
that he doesn't like the game in having
to go up against Corbett to get that
'fakc-on.'
"To substantiatc what l say allow me
TO tell YOU something. Mitchell received
a cab,egram from Atkinson, OF London
sporting Life, saying an offer of "A purse
had been made to have the contest take
place at Monte carlo. Instantly the
broad : beamtd EnGlishman said: Why
do you know. | think I'll accept
that. Here's a place where the greatest
spcnders in the world go to blow In
of money And that same ton would
have. to yield its little onr-third to
Charley.
Another thing. Mitchell never in his
Of the principles In z boxing match,
made a match that he didn't take a great
big look at the losers end of the purse.
His motto isn't both ends and the mid
die, but one end, anyhow, and that one
must be a good. decent bit, You know. |
might as well tell you, too, that ! think
the match: If fought anywhere, viii be
brought off right here in I'oney island.
Just keep tabs for about two, weeks
and then II things do not 60 right, why
there won't be any battle at all
The sporting oracle stopped. He
wasn't exhausted either, and then he
added You know I'm right. for I've
done business with both of those guys.
Charley's the greatest con man in the
business, and between you and me, jim
can play them az close as any %finanrier
| ever ran up against
The o~racle's remarks placed a new
phase on the pugilistic pastime. Purses
~i!npunity where the boxers and the club
stand in for an even division of the
receipts. The boxers might spar as
hard and az swift, where they have the
gate receipts in front of them, as they
would where a purse vas hung W for
the winner. But. both having a man
is rather difficult to igure how either
could give his entire attention to the
business of punching. Look at it any
way and It's "A puzzlins question.
"Punting" and "bucklng the centre
are the only terms heard nowadays when
speaking OF outdoor sports. Football
dominates the day and the giant-framed
rule the roost, New Workers are cui,
tivating a fine frenzy for the annual
jubilee Of jabbing and slugginG On Man
haitian Field which Invariably occurs
NhNI- dIt anu llltttDH meet on
Thanksgiving Day. Meanwhile Prince
ton and Yale are practising with second
elevens and minor teams and getting
used to being kicked in he eye and
having their heads showed into the earth.
Princeton and University of Pennsvl-
vania will meet in Philadelphia on Man
helm Field next Saturday. That will be
the first gun heard in this seasons foot
ball war. Saturdays game at Manhat-
tan Field between Princeton II Wes-
leyan was merely n warming up heat
for the Zebras. 1t was too easy.
Pennsy will give them something better.
Everybody at the entertainment Of the
New York Athletic Club Saturday night
was delighted. and the only regrettahle
features were the apology that Ferris
Dunn made for Jack Abeel and the an
nouncement Dunn made of Mayor Harri-
sons murder. That should nave been
deferred until the close OF the enter
tainment and not made between the
rounds OF a boxing contest. 1t was not
respectful. Assistant Dlstrict-Attorney
Weeks might have held the despatch a
few minutes longer.
The Boston A. A. eleven viii! meet the
Crescents at Eastern Park next Satur-
da. and Harvard will face Cornell at
Manhattan Field. 1t will be Harvard's
first APPEARANCE in this city in six years.