Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-01-27
KNOCKED OUT.
Pugilist Mitchell Soon Done For by
Corbett.
HAD NO SHOW AT ALL.
1t Takes Three short Rounds for COrbett
HAD NO SHOW
1t Takes Three short Rounds for Corbett
to Win the Purse and Remain the
Champion had Arrangements

him out or at least given him hard
fight. was never in it.
The battle was never in doubt for a
moment. and Mitchell was clearly
knocked out the third round. after
being repeatedly knocked down.
At noon Referee John Kelley
walked jauntily into the Duval club
bank, producing the famous check, and
said rs this worth anything?"
Twenty thousand dollars in crisp
greenbacks were paid over to the New
Yorker, who put the money in his in
side pocket and prepared to start for
the ring.
The weather, which babe fair during
the early morning hours to be good,
changed for the worse and the rain
came down in sheets. flooding the
streets AMI making everything nasty
and uncomfortable. The arena, which
has no roof except direct v over the
ring and the t,bles for the newspaper
men was soon thoroughly soaked.
The soil of Jacksonville is composed
entirely of sand and the water soaked
quickly. The temperature could hard
ly have been better. 1t was about 20
degrees. with cool and gentle wind,
which made light overcoat comfort
able, but not a necessity.
The rush to the arena began early
1t was long before the time for the con-
test when streams of buggies, car.
riages and all sorts of vehicles began
to drift ont toward the arena. The
price of transportation went up with
the increased demand, and two, three
and four dollars were asked for trip
to the arena. The price carried with
it the price OF return ticket. but there
was no chance of finding the original
vehicle as the avaricious jehus snapped
up anything that had the price of a
ride and let the ma joritv of those whom
they carried out get back to town the
best they could.
by o'clock 1000 persons were pres
ent, while there We're plenty of police
to preserve order
The stream of sports toward the
arena began at II o'clock. at which
hour constant succession OF vehicles
was laboring through the heavy sand
toward the place of combat Those
who came early, however, had their
trouble for their pains, aS the club had
workmen inside the arena busily work
ing upon the suggestions made early in
the day by Dempsey and Jim Hall.
Until these preparations were made
nobody .,as Omitted to the arena and
but few of the visitors were admitted
to the grounds surrounding the club
house This treatment only intensified
the disgust. if greater intens tv were
possio ole. which the visitors had already
acquired for the management of the
Duval Athletic club.
A long row ofrail birds perched upon
the fences opposite the entrance to the
grounds and eased their impatient
minds by heaving invectives upon the
club officials inside the arena. A force
of carpenters were desperately at work
strengthening the platform and repair
ing the seats, many of which had be-
come the worse for wear during the
last month. Billy Taylor, the old time
baseball catcher, stood at the gate and
resolutely but politely told the early
spectators that they would be admitted
as soon as the repairs were finished.
The betting in the morning was
largely in Corbett's favor the general
impression being that the Englishman
would stand no show against him. This
impression. however. did not exist to
any large extent among the members
of the Mitchell party. 1t did not
bother Mitchell himself either. He
was just as cool and confident
before the fight as he has al-
WAYS been. Mitchell. in fact, has
never shown the slightest anxiety
over the result He has always acted
as though he was the person least in
terested. He climbed out of ted short
" after Z o'clock, happy and cheerful
and announced: 81 want my breakfast
and ! want it pretty quick" lie went
through short series of light eXer-
cises. was rubbed down and then turned
his attention to his breakfast of NUT
ton chops, a little steak small amount
of potatoes. toast and tea This over.
he sat quietly in his room waiting for
the lime 10 come for his departure for
the ringside.
Mitchell WAS as conservative in his
eslimate of his chances this morning
as he has always been. 81 have good
chance, my boy" he said, "a good
chance. am going to whip him il /