The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-31

to decline issues where they involved
punches on the hard surfaces Of Mitch
ellis body. There we're two fights which
Corbett wanted to win. One in which
personal resentment was the stake
and the other which carried with it a
good-sized purse and side wager.
The former had already been wiped
of the calendar and COrbett started in to
pass on the other Mitchell was slow
in coming up. Corbett going straight for
him. Mitchell led his left in an attempt
to keep Corbett at arms length.
1t was the last lead Mitchell made.
Getting inside of the lead the men
clinched, Corbett brushing the alleged
strong man off as if he were a boy As
he pushed him away. swift as flash
crashed in the deadly right of the Amer
lean 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 non
chalantly walked TO his corner. He sat
down and watched the writing form Of
his adversary as towering Kelly called
off the Hateful seconds. Mitchell had
not fallen. nor did he remain down to
escape punishment this time. The pow
erful right of the American had landed
right. 1t might have felled an OK as If
with mallet. The idea that Corbett
dissipated, vanished six seconds after
ward. Mitchell writhed about under the
ropes and finally labored to an upright
position. Corbett thought that the fight
had already been won.
Terrific RIght-Hnnder.
The referee stood between the recum-
bent form of Mitchell and Corbett, and
when the former struggled dizzily to
his feet Kelly stepped aside so as to
not obstruct the champions view. call
ing his attention 10 the fact that the
Englishman was in a fighting attitude.
Corbett leaped from his seat and, with
a bound. flew at Mitchell. The latter
was fifteen feet away. dizzily leaning
up against the ropes. Corbett came al
him as II out of d Catapult. 1t was a
rlght-hand swing which next was
brought into play. and il was delivered
while at full speed.
The added weight Of Corbett's own
running weight was lent to the blow,
and when il landed il fell sQuarely on
the point of the jaw. MitchelPs head
fell forward on his breast. his lower jaw
dropped, his left hand fell Imply to his
side, the right falling under his body
IN the descent. His body reached the
floor, face downward. and he lay there
as nteleSS as one dead. There could he
no further doubts. There was not one
chance in a thousand that he would re-
cover inside the prescribed ten seconds.
His face turned slightly to the right
and from his mouth and nostriis oozed
the blood In tiny streams. Kelly had
counted the ten seconds slowly enough,
and in mis- deliberation about the matter
there was much of mercy. When the
time had finally run its limit with
wave of the hand toward Corbett's cor
ner. he shouted: "Corbett wins at the
same time reckoning the seconds or
Mitchell to their man.
Asleep Nineteen Seconds.
Pony Moore, Jim Hall and Steve
O'Donnell stopped down over Mitchell,
O'Donnell applying a bottle of ammonia
to the nostrils of the Englishman. He
lay there despite this and the three
picked up the limp body and slowly car
ried it TO his corner. Here the bottle
was again put to Mitchell and nineteen
seconds after the last blow had been
sent in the eyes of the man from En-
gland opened dreamily. You're out"
said Pony" Moore. Mitchell made no
response verbally. but shrugged his
shoulders as If he was thinking of the
spilled milk story His long English
bathing gown was forced over his arms
and he was slowly led from the ring
to the draSsing-room.
Corbett in the meantime was being
besieged by crowd of his friends. They
fairly wrung off the arms of the victor.
His first act after the fight had been
won and lost was 10 throw his still
gloved hands about the waist of his lit
tie manager and hacker and the two in
dulged IN what sounded very much like
a kiss. Kelly shook COrbett by the
hand, ffourished the $4,000 roll of bank
bills, and told him that il belonged to
him on demand and the international
battle. which has kept the fstic world
agog for nearly a year, was over.