Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-29
CHARLIE MITCHELL AND PARTY.

CHARLIE MITCHELL AND PARTY.
They Spent an Hour and n Half Here
Enroute To New York.
Charlie Mitchell and party were in WASH
ington on Saturday night The escort to
the pugilist comprised some of the best
known sporting men OF Great Britain and
a number Of New York newspaper friends
1t was jolly. good-humored, bie-hearted
and open-fisted crowd Everybody was in
a CHEEKY mood, and nobody was down in
the mouth. OF course. the boys might have
been Jollier had they been on the sunny
side Of the fight but despite losses and re-
verses. their countenances Were bisected
with broad-gauge smiles. and their clothes
mad plenty Of green goods I'm them. The
party remained In Washington one hour
and half, and proceeded to New York.
There they will probably remain till they
go back TO Florida next month 10 stand
trial On the way south Ii Is very probable
That Mitchell will have a pillow and love-
tap bout with Gentleman Jim before q
Washington audience While here. they
TOOK supper and refreshed themselves with
exilarating huidities. Nobody in the crowd
was half SO tough as scores of people net
with In some parts of this city. The Star
man was very well satisfied with the
crowd, and that fixes their standing so far
as this city is concerned.
Mitchell Described.
Mitchell is a right good fellow. No Just
judge OF human nature would put him
down as bully or a b-uiser. His accent
mas a flavor from across the sea- and he
walks with quick step and a heavy swing
from his hips up. which on sundry occa-
sions has been mistaken for a staggering
gait.
He is apt 10 torture you somewhat when
he shakes hands with YOU real earnestly
and your shoulder joint might creak just a
ntue, but all that goes. He is frank and
orasaue with strong throat voice. bright
eyesa tanned and rudy skin Mr. Mitchell in
quite conversationalist. Perhaps his ut
terances at times have not been diplomatic,
put The Star man found Charlie Mitchell a
hrst-rste fellow. He was not bunged up
when he and The Star man smiled with
each other. He has a red mark about the
SIZE OF a silver quarter on his left cheek
lust unoer The eve This was the part OF
MN on which he fell to rise no more inside
of ten seconds. This is the only facia,
wreckage which was apparent He was not
the horrible example of a smashed-up VIC
tim which the reporter had been fooliny
for. Patting his nose he said: This is the
same nose wore in the ring, and haven't
changed II since l left jacksonville. Is 4.
h he,y mnen broke The Star man felt It.
IL mad been in the path OF a cyclone.
The Match n Mistake.
Mr. Thompson, the manager of Mitchell,
is well-built. handsome man, with a pleas
ant manner and way of speaking. H1said:
The match was a mistake Charlie could
not be restrained. His courage had been
impugned. and any one who knows Charlie
knows how unjust a charge Of that KIM is.
He would have fought Corbett or diei, IL
was a very unequal match. Corbett. had
the advantage Of youth. strength. hAshx,
reach and weight. He outreached Chafffs
nv fonr mob. -
forty pounds We haven't anything totsay
ABOUT the night excepting that the best rss:,n
won. Corbett is the greatest fighter fhe
world has ever seen. He can whip any nan
on earth In the science of the ring he ms
begun where the other men left on Jack
son does not stand any show Cerbett il
the cleverest fighter I have ever seen We
have not decided on plans for tho future
The most important thing lust now is the
trial which is to come off at Jack sanvrls
next month. That may be a more serious
matter than we have imagined. / have rot
the slightest idea TO the outcome CT IT,
Charlie Will return 20 England and settle
down. He is out of the ring forever Ne
Will never fight again. OF course This ioss
OF the stakes was an item. but Charlie. you
know. Is rich"
Pony Moore.
Mr.. Pony Moore. the father-in-law OF
Mitchell and a celebrity himself. kept in
touch with The Star man. Mr. Pony 10
what is what is usually called quite q
character. He is an eccentric gentleman.
OF a nervous. fidgety temperament and a
pressure Of verbal steam. which. could il
be applied to locomotion, would give cleo
tricity a shock. Notwithstanding Lis sex.
his age is very difficult thing to get at.
He must have seen at least sixty summers
and corresponding number of winters,
ana yet his mustache and locks are as
black as the dyer's art can make them He
Is small. light man. piercing black ewes
ana movable countenance. He chatters
with 1erkiness that would derail a cable
car and a speed that would have made
George Francis Train. even in his palmy
days. sick. He likes to tell stories and TO
burlesque other folks. Even though he has
thrown away the bones, punched the bot
tom out of the tambourine and washed or
the cork which he wore as a minstrel in
the days gone by, he is a minstrel still,
When the original Christie Ministries were
exported to England Mr.. Pony actal az
their manager. Then he organized a Chris
tie Minstrels on his own hook lie has had
a varied and prosperous career. lie took
the reporter away back into the recesses
of his confidence and told him many little
stories. He thought that the management
of the Jacksonville mill had not been as
regular" as it should have been. People
We're permitted in the ring who had no
business there.
Newspaper Mems Views.
Mr.. Acker. the horse reporter of the New
York World. said that the fight was all
right and the result was a foregone con-
clusion from the moment the men appeared
In the ring. Mitchell had been overmatched.
Mr.. Harding OF the Police Gazette said
substantially the same thing. The party
played poker pretty nearly all the way
from the forests OF orange bloom to the
gray plains of concrete, and IL is said that
Mr.. Acker realized a four-1gure amount.
After telling The Star man all he wanted to
know the party left for New York.
Two Socialist Leaders.
From the London Daily News.
Our Vienna correspondent reports that
two female socialist orators Were sentenced