Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-01-24
THE FLORIDA FIGHT.
Corbett- Mitchell Mill Cres.ing
a Great Stir.
THE MONEY TN KELLY's HANDS.

THE MONEY TN KELLYis HANDS.
Mysterious Movements of a Carload Of
Armed oncers-Troops at Jackson
vile to Prevent the Battls-an III
Junction applied For to Restrain sher-
1T Trowder From Interfering.
JACKSONVILLE Fla. Jan. "a. There
was certainly a spectacular feature in
the record Of pugilisin in Jacksonville
yesterday Nearly all the mihtiamen of
the state of Florida arrived in the city
from orders given by Governor Mithell.
Sheriff Broward has concluded that
an injunction of the court nlight prove
to be an instrument of some conse-
quence. This is the substance of what
he says today: Il want to tell you
that this fight won't take place in
Duyal county, but if the judge in the
court decides that the governor is
wrong and an injunction is right, why,
then that is all | have got to say about
it."
The manner of the official was that
of a man who was willing to admit
that he might be stopped without being
bottled up
Argument upon the bill praying for
an injunction was called in the circuit
court before Judge Call and argument
of both sides is being presented. Judge
Call is understood to be of the deter
mination to grant the injunction prayed
for if the argument presented can con-
vince him that such contest, as is indi-
Gated in the articles of agreement. is
not illegal
1t ever there was string on the purse
check of $4,000 offered Corbett and
Mitchell by the Daval athletic club
the string is now cut and the cash safe
in the hands of Referee John Kelly.
The wind has again sEifted and Mitch
ell has changed his attitude and de-
clares that he will fight and fighting
will win Honest" John Kelly. ac-
companied by Jimmy Colviile of Bos-
ton and party of sports went to the
training quarters of the English cham
pion, and after long conference Kelly
and his party returned to Jacksonville
convinced that Mitchell was anxious
to fight. was not suffering with
sprained ankle and had no idea of
wriggling out of the fight. Kelly had
gone to Mitchell ON the same errand
which carried him to the Cor bett camp
at Mayport on Sunday.
There is large sized rumor abroad
that Mayor Fletcher has agreed to
swear 900 policemen to protectthe fight
ers. This he has positively denied.
Two baggage cars, a caEoose and an
engine pulled out of sid ng in the
yards OF the Florida Central and PENN
sular Railroad company last night. In
side the two cars were packed a circus
tent and portable seats of the Frank
Gentry circus. In the caboose the
caEoOse the blinds aud shades were
tightly drawn.
each with brace of Colts AIS. Every
man of them had been sworn in as a
deputy sheriff. the oath having been
administered by the sheriff of an ad ia
cent county friendly to the promoters
of the contest between Corbett and
Mitchell. Just where the tent was
bound for no one outside the inner
circle of the Duval Athletic club knows.
and those who do for obvious reasons
will not divulgeit
Adjntant General Houston arrived
in Jacksonville yesterday to make ar
rangements for quartering the COM
panies of the Second battalion, which
will arrive today. The men will be
quartered in the armory in this city.
General Houston said that, as he was
sent to Jacksonville TO prevent the
fight, he proposed to do SO and would
use every means in his power to effect
this purpose.
Manager Bowden of the Duval Ath-
letic club created CONSERVATION in the
clubrooms in the presence of lot of
newspaper men by making the startling
announcement that the prize fighters
were going out on train to fight and
that no newspaper was to have more
than one representative free of charge
and that only the reputable papers
of the country
The Duval Athletic club has asked
for an INDUCTION restraining Sheriff
Browder from interfering The bill
was fed in the state circuit court.
Going to the Fight.
New York. JAN s4.-Pony Moore,
Jack Dempsey. Brooklyn Jimmy
Carroll, John Eckhardt, P j. Donohue,
Clarence Mccormick, Matte Clunock,
Jack Sheehan, A. NJ. Chapman of Phii-
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