Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-04-22
TT WILL BE STRUGGLE
Mitchell Talks About His Fight
 With Corbett.

| It is with extreme regret that l leave
 for England. I am completely overrur
 with business matters which l have
 here in America to attend to. When
 speak of business affairs do not refer
 to any attempts at acting, faking or
 masqueradi' g in anything but my true
 guise. What I really mean is that
 have real business mat ters to look after,
 the same as any broker ins Wall or Broad street, or any merchant in the dry goods district. I'll let other cham
 pions attend to acting" such as "Gen-
 tleman Jack" and the like.
 I will stay in England until Septem- ] Der and do little, if any, work ttere, as I i believe too much work makes a man ' stiff and stale, l will be back in AmerIca 1 the first week in September and train | three mon's sssiduously near the club ! house where the contest will occur. I will get into the finest possible shape | for battle and will have no excuses to offer should,the tide go against me. All | ask for IS a fair field and no favor and | that the better man win. l sincerely
 trust that my prospective adversary | feels the same way. If he does, the American public will. l confidently predict, be treated to battle which will satisfy them from every standpoint. Now a word as to the battle. It will not be the easy, one sided affair that the partisans of each side look for, On the contrary, it will be a hard determin- ed struggle, and scientific throughout Ccrbett has the advantage of me in height and reach. In other points I think we are about equal, although so eminent an authority as John l.. Sul- livan, who has fought us both, says that l am the harder hitter. Other things
 being equal, skill, speed and shiftiness, hard biting sometimes offsets superior height and reach.
 Much has been said about Corbett's wonderful left and, like that of Peter Jackson, many regard it as impenetra- ole, and think that an adversary will run up against stone wall should he try to get past it. This Is the veriest of nonsense. No man, no matter how clever he may be, has an impeuetrable left. Tom Savers was only feet 81S inches, yet be could get by the great left hands of Bill Perry, the Tipton Slssher, and of John C. Heenan, the American champion. Both were about six feet, two inches in height. Savers whipped Perry and fought draw with Heenan. He got under their lefts and punished them terribly about the their | bodies, Jem Mace did the same to | King, who lowered SIX inches above him, | and whipped him handily at their first | meeting. Mace was whipped by fluke | by the big fellow a their second meet ing when he had his man all but out. | Even your humble servant has bested | men who were as tall and as a strong as Corbe,t, art ough l will admit they | were not by any means as clever.
 If tall men could by merely tn rowing out their left hands stop their adversa- ries and keep them at distance and | out of harms way themselves, you would never see any matches between six footers and champions of ordinary height. Nature, however, So ordained it that the smaller men, who are gene rally thicker in buhd ard stronger in to their size, are better in- fighters and more capable of execution about the body. This in a measure offsets the punishment the smaller chap must necessarily receive about the head and face. ButI am going on at too great length. Some day in next December will determine whether my theory is right or wrong.
 CHARLES w. MITCHELL.