Show SPORTING NEWS bat master masterson on gives the tribune his opinion 11 he e said 1 I was astonished at mitchells Kitch ells recall remarkable kable a able ability as an athlete displayed before a few of us at new ew orleans ile he weighs stripped pounds and is is a splendid specimen of the physical man his arms are larger than those of sullivan sullivaa Sul livau and his reach is long while his legs are massive and just properly por portioned to support his bulk some hornc people have charley mitchell in mind as being rather a trifle below the average size I 1 want to disabuse that idea mitchell Mit eliell stands a head bead above peter jackson who is much above the average arid and is greater in any physical pott point than corbett Cor betl ile ie was 31 years of age on novem her jer 24 1892 so BO that when lie steps step i nto the kingto meet the champion he ie will be 32 years of age and will weigh in the immediate vicinity of 0 pounds bounds about corbetts weight now just think of a man in the very hush flush of a luxurious life heated with wine and quite obese entering the gymnasium after his bath at new orleans arid and easily besting beating every expert it contained among all the athletes in new orleans at the time in every game they put up he can do all sorts of tricks on the horizontal bar uy fly rings vaulting and other indo indoor 0 r games he is a splendid wrestler and downed everybody who went against him for the fun of the thing no ordinary wrestler can put mitchella Mitchell 8 back upon the floor it would take takee evanslewis Evan van lewis or orillie roe bei tor to tl ii rai eat at i biloxi I 1 saw him sprint yards at the training quarters ot of the others fighters C in eleven seconds add to such euch a wonderful man oue of the shrewdest heads beads that was ever planted upon a boxers shou shoulders ld and masterful use of sparring and you have a dan dangerous erous man ile he is thy the only man of liis his kind ever born and lias has no duplicate today just as corbett cor belt has bas none we have never had in this country another nian man with all the skillful skill fil qualities of jim corbett but I 1 believe lieve firmly that he will lose the fight fisit another thing mitchell will do just as lie he sullivan in public at st louis if he wins the contest with corbett sullivan will cli challenge allen e liell and then the latter will withdraw in favor davoy of john L I 1 ihnow that mitchell has a great admiration for sullivan and lie ho told me himself that the sullivan who met him in r france rance was riot not the one that eliat faced corbett |