The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-01-21
ONLY FOUR DAYS MORE
Active Preparations for the Big Inter.
national Battle.
CORBETT IS THE FAVORlTE
About S25o.ooo Waiting to Be
Placed on the Californian at 2
to mitchell Has Trained
Down TO io2 Pounds.

JACKSONVILLE, Jan. a0.-The Duyal
Athletic club managers are confident To a
degree that they will be able to pull of the
big fight within 30 miles of this city. They
declare that no power on earth, short of
the failure of one of the principals To ap.
pear, can stop them. Further than this
they maintain the utmost secrecy. They
declare that only Mitchell and Corbeu
will know in advance the spot whore the
ring is To be pitched. Bowden will ride IN
the cab OF the engine and the engineer
will be instructed 10 stop wherever he
orders. The demand made by Mitchell
that lie be given Information as to where
the contest is 10 he pulled off by Tuesday
morning will probably be denied him. IL
he is told anything at all, very likely Il
will be point far removed from the scene
of the contemplated action.
All manner of talk has been indulgcd in
Of late as 10 the weight of Mitchell. An
associated press reporter was to-day taken
to the quarters OF the Britishcr on Anas-
tasia is and, by bat" MasIerson aud saw
Mitchell mount the scales and weigh him
self. Mitchell had just finished his morn
ing exercises, which consisted Of l2-mllc
run. wrestling bouts with Fogarty, Hall
and o Donncll and light work at the punch
ing bags. When he mounted the scales,
attired only in Adams livery. he bclied
the claims which have yariously fixed his
weight at ls1 to LA. HIS hitherto
prominent paunch had completely
left him. His limbs were trained down
finely. The muscles of his back stood
out IN ridges across an eSpanse which had
been thlnned down TO ribs. The ilabby
neck and double chin were gone, and, all
in all. he looked no more like the Mitchell
familiar TO thcaIer audiences than II there
was no affinity between the two. He was
a bit backward about adjusting the
weights on the bar in the presence of the
reporter He cogltated a moment, and
then said with swaeger, IL don't care"
He dropped the index along until the
weight came 10 perfect balance. There
is the weight" said Mitchell, and the re-
porter bending over saw tho beam regis
ter l62 pounds.
Mitchell afterwards talked freely about
the fight. but throughout evinced a marked
lack of faith in the ability Of the club TO
pull il off. He intimated that If il did not
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