The evening world., 1894-01-22
ALL IS IN A MIDDLE.
Duval A. O. Mad at Mitchell
Oorbett Charged with Burglary.
Arbitration May Be Necessary To
Bring on the Fight.
Mrs. Mitchcll's Telegram Says Moth
Ing of CharIcy's Sprain.
Especial TO the Evening World. g,

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Jan. 2?.-The
Duval Athletic Club means to make
Mitchell take he full c~onsequenccs Of
his act Of yesterday In making public
the letter ~instructing him to be ut the
Club at . o'clock on the morning of the
fight. The Gu has tired of Mitcheli'e
continued opposition to it's plans, and
considering that he Intends to prevent
the fight, 1t will use every piece Of legal
machinery within its reach to punish
Element of the trouble.
The Club intends to make no further
advances, and unless It becomes more
moderate In Its Views, or a peacemaker
appears upon the scene, It seems likely
tat the Corbett- Mitchell AFFAIR will end
IL a fiasco hat will be Of advantages
only to a few Of those cracker lawyers.
The Club will probably nue. out a war
rant for Mitcheil's- arrest, alleging that
It has lost money through his failure
persons who know Mitchell do not be-
H Mtson ne m intends . to q, 60 out Of his fsht
VIII serve him In good stead later on.
Fills proposition To hight Corbett In y
room with twelve men on Q siaa may Be
ohhy " .
was for. the situation 10 decidedly worse
than It has ever been before since these
men signed the articles to fight hers,
s sna ass r eae and The san nssi f held e &
must be done by a master hand, .,.Tss
nh fun signlhcsnee OF the questions
f nS~d Says w IN Fes ARG toe M TepSf5ff + e sIesyy
enough: d you think Mitchell Is all
right and anxious to ightg.' he would
ask. He would be assured that Mitchell
GhnuyA6 ay-ARv Guidance ~ n IAufra -
get at Corbett, but that did not seem
Now, George Burbridge. one of the
the declaration that 'he Club has known
right along that Mitchell did not mean
to fight unless the contest was held In
efforts have been to get him up to the
point Of willingness to go outside Of the
The bubbles that have bothered the
been from Mitchell.
To add to all Of this woe. w. A.
Brady has been busting around town
one Of the Mayport Cottages ese from haV-
Ing Corbett arrested for burglary: II
seems that George Hartman. President
or the ~5ac in,S Mayp3rt and Pablo
fornian reached here. that the FIVE cot
tage3 on the beach were at his disposal.
One of these belongs to Mr.. Meyer, OF
This Mr.. Meyer now. on the eve OF
Corbett's departure from Mayport,. dis
covers that his cottage has been bro
h he% 'R Re can by p SssSstt' t sed s ns a1esn, wi *.
out putting, Corbett in the c%slaboose, vi
less he is "insulted'' with $500. 1t Ia a
plain case Of what the sporting men
expressed that Mr.. Meyer, who has
daughters in society here, should be q
party to such an affair,
from Yankseland have gone % s., Az:
gust!ne to-day, to talk to Mitchell. II
the Club has any one on the train the
fact has not been discovered.
In regard to the reports from Florida
pleased with Mitchell because he refused
to spend the night before the battle ~
L sl~eeping-car furnished by the Club. ana
Of Sss a a hn made sP P%Slle More ioe e'r Si,c lssifs
father-in-iaw ". SAID this morning that he
knew nothing more OF the matter than
he bad read In the papers; NOT worrv,n~
when he was seen at, the Metropolitan
Hotel. II guess Mitchell knows what
he is doing, he said: He can't be
wanting to know just when he is going
and how he will go. It's just the same
way with a valuable horse, or doS1,you
cant afford to take E any risks T,dn n and
/ expect to see a fight. As to Charley
having injured his leg. / haven't heard Q
word about 1t. and l don't credit the
story. Mrs. Mitchell got a telegram
from him late last night saying. Charley
was well. Here Is the telegram
The veteran and sport handed over q
message, which read as follows:
Welcome Shall be pleased when time arrives
to joln Won. Give no opinion to reporters, An
sWer. Well. Letter on way. With love.
II should Judge from that that Char
lev Is all right. People must have some
thing to write and talk about, you
know. which may account for these r.
ports. Maybe betting has something 70
do with them"