Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-03
CHARLEY MITCHELL
WOULD FIGHT FITZ.
English Boxer Has Notion There
Are Few WalIops iu
Him.
BRlTISHER IS IN EARNEST,
And Says He viii Wager S. 900 That
lie Gao Put it all Over the Lanky
Cornshman,

A New York sporting writer sends out
the following
II certainly might look funny ON
Broadway three-shcct, but It's sur le
tagIs for all that
Charley Mitchell VS. Bob Fltzsim-
mons. any number Of rounds. any place
convenient to the safe receipts any time
In the immediate futmo'
TO laugh? Not on your real thought
fulnoss. Not according TO M Mitchell
Aud no denial from the outlying Ntl.
The castwhie boxing champion Of Eng
land corgaled me last night IN tho pink
room " tho Dolavau, ana before / Could
escape impaired 10 me in emphatic
chunks, smuthCrod DER with the soft,
sWrling of his native tongue, the hope
that he and the Bald Buster Of Benson
hurst might impinge within the queens
berry ropes.
"Tnero's a good aght left I'm me, old
chap quoth Mr. Mitchell at amt the
scads I'm after, I've got them a-plcnty.
But ia like to get IN the ring once again
to see what | could do III bog tltlsim-
Inons-thorc's no one ia rather take ON
than hlm-any number Of rounds Ia
wants, and I'm bet him 5000 ON the side
that [ beat him"
Suppose we anayzc the proposition.
Aud from the point of view Of the
patron " pugilsn. IT may be taken iu
am seriousness. Mitchell, ! know Is very
much In earnest. 10 has the money 10
mako good his threat 10 nct-MitChcu, in
fact is q wealthy man.
Many glimpscs of the time recording
moon have blmkCd and gone out since
Charley drew ON "a pair OF boxing gloves
10 chase the wolf from the door FltZ,
ON the contrary has been IN active ring
harness practically mp 10 the present.
Apparently. a point I'm Ftz's favor. But
although the Britishcr has not trained
nor fought. he has taken care OF him
self and is today I'M very good physical
condition, He Is heap .ggcr than whom
ho came here stripping OF 40 pounds
and bumped into the giant Sullivan, but
II is not the nabby fat Of age, or In
activity II Is size to he sure but hard
size, the heft Of which Is rather an
advantage than handicap I'm a passage
at arms governed by the rules laid down
by the late Queensborry person.
II may oven be- that the training under
gone by the continually lighting Fit2 and
the damage 10 his internal anatomy Incl
dent 10 the thunps ~ an adversary. have
set the Frockled one back to a degree
greater than the long period OF rost en-
ioyed by Mitchell
Rest to an athlete has IT'S victories no
less renowned than to much training.
Mitchell declares that he can get IN
shape for a fight In month, And he
looks the part AZ 70 their respective
material Fitz Is 49, Mitchell a.
Regarding RITZ at present here are a
few facts, irrespective Of any coy dis
chalmers the old ring hero may see Mt
10 make;
saw him I'm Detroit last winter, He
was Inasticating SCENERY IN "A Fight for
Love- ! saw him again I'm Chicago, stu
cutting ont paper Williams, and latterly
when he returned 10 New York. He was
hobbling along with painful steps In a
vain eudcavor 70 control the uncertain
movements Of very small terrier evil
IDENTIFY tho property OF Mrs. F'tz,
"Why don't you get shoes TO ut you,
Bob2" ! asked The shoes, by the way,
were Of a particularly vivid yellow, ac-
companled by a Prince Albert coat and a
tall hat,
ITS me feet" replied Fitz with a
grjmace. SHOES are all right. There's
something the matter with me feet, ana
can't get en- right no how"
Yes, II WAS his feet Fltz's underpn-
ming and hands are IN a very bad way.
Both these important eXtremitles failed
him when he fought George Gardner, and
as everyone knows who saw his pitiful
ondeavor on that OCCASION 1t was only
his foxy fighting head and Gardner's
lack Of gamenoss that gave him thin
skinned victory.
Put Mitchell and F'itz side by side to-
day and Mitchell Is the better insurance
| risk.