The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-24
A SLIM SHOW FOR A FIGHT.
Iud6e Call Not Expected to Grant an
Injunction.

Second Battalion of State Troops
Reaches Jacksonville 200 Strong.
Good Reason to Believe That the
Club viii Throw Up It's Hands on
Failing to seoure an Injunctioni
corbett Not at Mayport.
Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. 23.-"The fight
&c practically off," said w z. Harding,
the sporting editor of the Police Gazette,
this evening. This opinion of Mr.. Hard
ing is based on the attitude Of the gover-
nor the trouble about the check for that
$4,000, and the mismanagement of the
athletic club in general.
Nearly every thoroughbred in the city
shares the opinion of Mr.. Harding that
the fight is practically off. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Blake, who is the only
member of the club that knows even a
little bit about prize fights, is also of the
opinion that the odds are 100 to l against
the Duval Athletic Club pulling off the
match between the famous heavy weights
Of course, the club people are still talk
ing fght-they can always be depended
on to talk, that is, Bowden can-but then
talk does not pull off prize fights, at least,
it doesn't when the governor of a state
gets his back up and quarters battalion
Of state troops in city to see that the
fight does not occur. And that is Just
what Gov. Mitchell has done.
ARRIVAL OF THE SOLDIERS.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon the second
battalion of the state guard, 200 strong
Mai c. p. Lowell i'll command, reached
thecitv The troops had to march nearly
the entire length of Bay street, the prin-
cpal thoroughfare of the city, to reach
their quarters The sidewalks were lined
with hundreds of the short-haired gentry,
and as the soldier boys went tramping
past these people broke out with hoots
and Kisses. But steadily as old veterans
Of the guard the soldier boys marched on,
looking neither to the right nor the left,
nor giving any sign that they heard
the hisses The soldierly bearing of the
soldiers had its effect on the sports who
lined the sidewalks, and before the bat
talon reached its quarters the kissing
aud hooting mad ceased. The battalion is
composed of four companies, as follows:
Company A, of Ocala, Capt. r. B. Nc
Connell; Company B, of Leesburg, Capt.
B. Smith; Company G, of Orlando, Capt
P. Brewson, and Company E, Of Sanford,
Capt. LefeVre.
LOOKED EVERY INCH LIKE SOLDIERS.
The boys look every inch like soldiers,
and there is no doubt that if ordered
they would use their guns. The battal-
ordered to Jacksonville two years ago to
aid the local troops in quelling riot.
They quelled it, too. They are what is
known as crackers, - and know nothing
save to obey orders, even if those orders
are to wait till you see the whites of
their eyes and fire lown
Adit. Gen. Houstoun accompanied the
battalion.
THE INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS.
Tba l. I Ill,
yesterday asking for an injunction re-
stralnlng Sheriff Broward from interfer-
ing with the contest came up before Judge
Call of the circuit court at 10 o'clock
this morning. The attorneys for the club
We're ON hand, but Judge Call was asked
oy the representatives of the
state to postpone the hearing
till tomorrow in order to give
Attorney General Lamar. the highest law
oncer in Florida, an opportunity
10 arrive. The attorneys for the
club fought the motion for a con-
tnuance, claiming that the attor-
ney general had had ample time to get
mere and that the club wanted the mat
Ter settled Immediately as continued
aoQot IN regard to the fight was very in
!Gnous. Judge Call, however, granted
lhe motion for a continuance, and so the
matter will be disposed of tomorrow.
THE CHECK NOT TURNED INTO CASH.
In spite of the statements by the club
people that they would accede to the de-
Mands OF John Kelly in regard to the
Check Tor 1000, they have not yet done
50. Inc string is still tied to the purse.
Ferhaps 1t would be nearer the truth to
say that the club has cable attached to
the check and so far has made no move to
remove 1t and turn the money over to
Kelly
there was a stormy meeting in the club
rooms This evening, in which all the mem
ueIs participated, and the subject of dis
cusslon was whether Kelly's demands
enouid De acceded to and whether the
cneck should be made payable to him un-
condltionally.
circular Joe Vendig urged that the
money should be turned over to Kelly,
put he was opposed by every other mem
oet Oh the club. They said that they did
noI propose to cut the cable attached to
sudV check Just vet they wanted to know
now Judge Call would decide the applica-
Su Sou lor an Injunction before they moved
IurIher In the matter. So Vendig was
oEerruled and Kelly's kick about the
ISneck stlll goes. Kelly says that he must
nave $4,000 in cash, or he win not referee
backing him.
NO INJUNCTION, NO FIGHT.
Inc truth is that if Judge Call to-mor-
t ~" refuses to grant the injunction asked
~ OHo CIuD Will immediately throw up
rue TIe sponge and declare the contest off
tLe hue club have claimed all along that
oney Will be law-abiding, and would be
koyerned by a court decision. There
t,GGre, II Judge Call decides against them.
ttLhey VIII quote these assertions and
StnroW up the match, which has proved to
oe a white elephant on their hands They
Fay however, that if Judge Call grants
suG injunction they will have the fight in
splLe OF Gov. Mitchell and the state
Shoops quartered here. While Judge Call
,r las glven no hint as to what his decision
ogIu "ouIu be, the Southern Associated Press
oUUIiespondent learned tonight from good
@tiu1.uorlty that he would grant no injunc-
yia Ton, What ever may be Judge Calls
,rS mSSWs as to the legality of prize fights
IiaI,n5 Iinen ne was county solicitor, it is not be-
tHbVStu Wv mat, as judge, he will seek to tie
6ro,Ilnos SrG nanos OF the governor in his effort to
fbo.e1J the fight, when it is well known
may, nSs Ihe governor has been advised by
f,,It. -Ju. oers Of the supreme court that prize
III i5u's are IN violation of the laws of Flori
fS5, SI, Judge Call may not declare prize
~, tSu'S Vlolative of the law, but it is said
oras.l nIo. ne Will manage to dodge the whole
5se oSi'on and leave Gov. Mitchell free to