Show SPORTING NEWS ME corbett is apparently anxious to get at john L L THE BOSTON BOY mitchell and Sla slavin viii are working their mouths minneapolis march 8 john L I 1 sullivan has wired liis his hacker backer to t cover corbetts forfeit the light fight to take talc place in august or septem LO bei in tile caul offering tile lar largest est purse Queens hurry burry rules winner winner to take the entire pure 10 I 1 outside het bet or first come collie fi I 1 sti served a also tso to coverall tile the blu bluffers bluff flers ers money bonev for any match during the fain same e time BUFFALO march 11 arich S Al mitchell itchell and slavin were seen this morning by a rcpt esentad ive of the associated press and asked their intentions in re regard ard to sullivans icely to mitchells mitchel is ultimatum mitchail Mitch Mitel cil icil seemed nonplussed nonplus sed anil ani asked the interviewer as to the best course po isible my ultimatum presented the case precisely ho he said mv money is up and now we walt wait for sullivan to put up his hia money money iam I 1 am ready to fight sullivan at any any ame there is is no reason why this newspaper nen fight C should he be continued I 1 am determined to fic fight li lip slavin lavin said let sullivan put ur his money mine is posted philadelphia IA barch 8 corbe t tonight to iii night L lit sent mitchell itchell iol and pul livan letters announcing C that it was teas his desire to meet them loth both rules in tile letter to mitchell Mitch cil he said you crawled out of a match with avith me 1 by stating that eliat you you would never ell engage 1 in a fini finish h fl fight lit again you now seemed anxious for a match with sullivan to a finish since you have changed your terms I 1 suppose you will wil have no objection to ta meeting me I 1 will fight figlia you any time anywhere for all any amount of money you vou may stipulate ilis his letter to sullivan states that his corbetts forfeit i up and requests sullivan to cover it ile he resents sullivans allusion to him corbett as a bombastic member of the profession the letter closes in ili your general challenge you said first come collie first served my money is up cheref therefore I 1 am entitled t to the first chance NEW yom Nf areli S W A brady manager 0 for james J corbett put up a forfeit of 1000 in this city today to day dav and issued a challenge ien e to john L sullivan to fi fight I 1 t I 1 for a side and the lard largest in gc st pure burte that a club chih would give brady brada said that lie would add 0 anakin making a forfeit of 2500 WO all as soon as lie learned that sullivan had indicated his w willingness illi to meet corbett Co rhett sullivan talks about fi fighting litin havin said aid brady but lie cannot poi possibly sibly take on oil a man mail who is already en engaged a ed I 1 as slavin is with jackson A As 4 to the mitchell Mi business it is all non nonsense ense mitchell Mitch cil will never meet the hi bh fellow and john L knows that as well as anybody jn in corbett the chain champion pi J I 1 1 will find a man who can call ruise in forty eight hours and one who has no engagement 0 corbett will sign 0 articles of agreement to fight 0 in august 0 september or whenever it suits i sullivan best we e will leave it chiefly to john L to select the time all wo we want is a gin eign from him that lie ho will make tin the match corbett Cur bett is meeting 0 all co coin miners mers at a philadelphia theatre this week it is said that lie is anxious to 13 get oua cm a match of some soine kind without waiting baitin 0 to kw L ce liow how the jackson bavm fight 0 conics comes out on may 3 30 ile HP arties ar argues t ties that should lie ile bo be beaten by sullivan lie will yet have the preference in a match with either cither the australian or jackson Jack gon |