Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-26

Mitchell was slow In coming up, Corbett
going straight for him. Mitchell led his
left In an attempt to keep Corbett at arms
length. ID was the last lead Mitchell
made. Getting inside of the lead the men
clinched, Corbett brushing the alleged
strong man of as II he were boy. As
no pushed him away, swift as a fash
crashed in the deadly right Of the Ameri-
can clear to the Jaw. Mitchell went down
under the force of the blow.
In the fall he swung across the lower
rope, poised there an instant and then
slipped off to the rosined floor. Corbett
turned about after delivering the blow
and nonchalantly walked TO shis corner.
He sat down and watched the writhing
form of his adversary as Kelly called of
the fateful seconds. Mitchell had not
fallen nor did he remain down to escape
punishment this time. The powerful
right of the American, had IL landed
right, might have felled an OK as II with
mallet.
Mitchell writhed about under the ropes,
and finally labored to an upright position.
Corbett thought that the fight had al
ready been won. The referee stood be-
tween the recumbent form Of Mitchell
and Corbett, and when the former strug-
gled dizzily to his feet, Kelly stepped
aside SO as not to obstruct the champions
view, calling his attention to the fact that
the Englishman was In a fighting atti-
tude.
Corbett leaped from his seat and with q
bound few at Mitchell. The latter was
Is feet away, dizzily leaning up against
the ropes. Corbett came at him as IL out
of a catapult. 1t was q right hand swing
which next was brought into play, and II
was deliver ed while at full speed and
landed squarsly on the point Of the jaw.
The windup.
Mitchell's head fell forward on his
breast, his lower jaw dropped, his left
hand fell Imply to his side, the right fall
Ing under his body In the descent. His
body reached the floor face downward,
and he lay there az lifeless as one dead.
His face turned slightly to the right, and
from his mouth and nostrils oozed the
blood In tiny streams.
Kelly had counted the 10 seconds
slowly enough, and in his deliberation
about the matter there was much mercy.
When the time had finally run its limit
Kelly, with a wave of his hand toward
Corbett's corner, shouted "Corbett WINS"
at the same time beckoning the seconds
of Mitchell to their man.
"Pony" Moore, Jim Hall and Steve
O'Donnell stopped down over Mitchell.
O'Donnell applied a bottle of ammonia to
the nostrils of the Englishman. He lay
there despite this, and three picked up the
limp body and slowly carried H. to his
corner Here the bottle was again put to
Mitchell and 10 seconds after the last
blow had been sent in the eyes of the man
from England opened dreamily.
you're out" said Pony Moore. Mitch
ell made no response verbally, but
shrugged his shoulders as II he was
thinking of spilled milk story. His long
English bathing gown was forced over
his arms, and he was slowly led from the
ring to the dressing room.
Corbett in the meantime was being be-
sieged by a crowd of his friends. They
fairly wrung off the arm Of the victor.
His first act after the fight had been won
and lost was to throw his still gloved
hands about the waist of his little man
ager and backer and the two INDUCED in
what sounded very much like kiss
Kelly shook Corbett by the hand,
fiourished the $4,000 roll Of bank bills
toward him, and said that It belonged to
him on demand, and the international
battle, which has kept the political world,
as well as the fstic world, agog for nearly
year, was over.
A Great Record.
James John Corbett was born in San
Francisco Sept. /, 1866, of Irish parents,
md received good education in the pub
lie schools of that city and at the College
of the Sacred Heart. When boy in his
teens be was employed in a bank, and
later held a clerksbip in the same insti-
tuition.
His first instru ction in boxing was re-
ceived from Professor Watkins of the
Olympic Athletic club. In 1884 he made
his first appearance in professional way,
his opponent being Dave Eiseman, whom
the Californian disposed of very easily in
two rounds. He then defeated Duncan
Mcdonald OF Butte, Mon, In four rounds.
Corbett afterward defeated Choynski in
enc round, and later, In q hard fought
battle Of "a rounds, he knocked him out
second time, breaking his own hand In
The snoountsr. This latter victory by
Corbstt had been preceded with the
knocking out Of Mike Brennan, the Port
Costa Giant" and with a. aght-rsupd
bout with Jack Burke, which was de-
slared drew.
Corbett was then only 10 years old, but
he went On fSom thumph 10 triumph, de-
fss>ing, In rapid succession, Jim DAILY In
two rsundS Fra / Smith In tIrso George
Atkinson In twV, aud Frank Glover In
two. After his barge battle With
Cheynski there was four-round meet for
points between Corbett and Joe Nc
Auliffe, IN which the former easily got
the decision. Professor John Donaldson,
who has been one Of Corbetts trainers for
this contest with Mitchell, was easily de-
feated by the Californian, while the lat
ter was still an Instructor In boxing at
the Olympic club, aud not long after this
Professor VIII am Miller, the famous
Greco- Roman wrestler, went down be-
fore him In four rounds The only other
victory Of any Importance prior TO Cor
belts battle with Jake Kilrain was that
over Dave Campbell Of Portland, Ore.
On Feb. IL, 1890, Corbett met Jake
Kilfsin Of Baltimore In Q six-round glove
coatest before the Sootkern Athletic club