The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-31
NOT MUCH MONEY UP YET.
Savannah Sports Waiting for Develop.
meltS in the Fight.

One Bet of Hundred Even Posted on
the Englishman-The Big Money
Held Until the Fight Is a Certainty
and All Contingencies Are Out of the
Way-A Story of Corbett's Cottage.
Havana Wants Both Fighters for a
Carnival Show.
The interest in the coming Corbett-
Mitchell fight is booming among the
sporting men who are getting all their
spare cash together to back their
choice.
THAT every start will be heat and
every heat a race cannot hold good until
it is definitely decided if the mill will ae-
tually take place. All the Englishmen
who own ranches and orange groves along
the east coast of Florida are making fire.
quent trips to Jacksonville in hopes of
showing their loyalty TO Mitchell, and
backing him with all they have got.
Savannah sports take the report that
Corbett is to l shot with a big pinch of
salt-like the anarchist, it won't wash. In
the opinion of a well-known sporting man
who always knows what's what when a
fight is on, Corbett and Mitchell are well
matched, but he thinks Mitchell will win.
He was asked by a MORNING News re-
porter how the betting is in Savannah.
AN EVEN 800 ON THE ENGL1sHMAN.
"Wel," said he, Il have Just posted
bet of 500 even money on the English
man, and when that is taken there is
more where the first roll came FROM
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any issue, and more particularly fight,
rumors by the dozen go heller SHELTER
over the country, and the large bets are not
made until the date of the fight draws
nearer. The only large bet made and
taken thus far is one of s., 900 even money
on Mitchell
BRADY, 'Pompadour' Jim's manager, is
blowing too hard, said the Savannahian,
land has been quietly sat upon by the
Duval Athletic Club. Some think that
he is only too willing to have the governor
prevent the men from entering the ring.
There is no love spilled between Corbett
and Mitchell, and if they are allowed to
light, the spectators will be treated to
rich, rare and racy show"
Zimmerman took flying trip to May
port to assist in Corbett's training, and
told number of his cycling friends that
Jim was in fine trim and thought himself
a dead sure winner. Jimmie has dots on
the subject of fine training, and his sug-
gestions at this critical period were of
great benefit to the pugilist.
coRBETT's ENTERTAINERS.
1t is rather a funny thing, says CORE
spondent, about the Wallace cottage be-
coming the home of Corbett, and the
story is made more interesting by Mrs.
Wallace, the matron of the home. 1t APP
pears that Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace and the
champions father and mother lived in
the same county in ireland. and that they
were well acquainted. Both families left
the old country about the same time and
came to America, where they separated,
the Corbetts going west, the Wallaces
coming south. Old man Wallace turned
his attention to the seas and became
seaman, and during the late war was at
tached to the confederate navy, having
for his associate, among others, Jerry
Lynch, of Atlanta, when the Alabama
was sunk.
AN OLD TIME FRIENDSHIP.
When it became certainty that the
fight would come to Florida Mrs. Wallace
read of it, and, remembering the old
friendship between the two families in
the old country, prOffered the use of her
cottage, as she was about to move to her
winter home in Mayport. 1t was in this
way that Corbett happens now TO be liv-
ing under the roof of the playmates of his
parents in their childhood days. Mrs.
Wallace is one of the most matronly-look-
ing ladies in the country, and, though de-
voted to the stars and stripes, which float
over her home at all hours of the day, is
yet devoted lover of her old land.