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Show ! MITCHELL WILL MEET SULLIVAN, i Burke or DemPe, and Would Jke the Mill to Take Place Near Salt Lake. i ' j Charles Mitchell, England's champion j pugilist, whose statuary exhibitions in I the recent minstrel performances here I were so thoroughly appreciated, may re-'turnjshortly re-'turnjshortly to Salt Lake for a more sensational sen-sational exhibition than any he treated j his audience to in this city. Mitchell has the best record perhaps of any living pugilist pu-gilist of to-day, save John L. Sullivan alone. Wlule here he met his old acquaintance, ac-quaintance, Deputy Marshal Cudihee, to whom he expressed a desire to arrange for a mill with Jack Burke, Dempsey, or even Sullivan himself, the contest to take place in or near this city, for any purse j desired. He only wished to be assured j that such an exhibition would be an un- I questionable success here, and that the I prospects were good for the event to take , place without endangering himself or his j associates. j The matter was soon noised around, and there were scores of the sports and j bloods of the town who grasped at the proposition with remarkable avidity, and expressed enthusiastic assurances of sup-" port. Mr. Mitchell, just before taking the train yesterday afternoon for Califor- ! nia, reiterated hia willingness and desire to have arrangements made for a first-class first-class meeting with any of America's ( sluggers, and gave assurances to his friend Cudihee that he would give the matter his immediate and earnest attention, atten-tion, and would open up a correspondence on tne subject. Mitchell, underneath his pleasing face, refined manners and gentlemanly deportment, de-portment, which almost dispel all thought of his being the dreaded pugilist that he is, carries an intellect which, coupled with his natural and acquired physical superiority and excellent ring education, gives him a powerful advantage over others in the profession, and gives him an even balance against many who are j very much more powerful physically. He has already demonstrated his superiority over Burke, and when it is remembered I that Burke is the only man that has been able to stand before Sullivan's ponderous thugging, it is but reasonable to infer that a match between Mitchell and America's champion would prove exceedingly interesting. |