The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-15
FATTY LA BLANCHE.
Gregsains Whips Him in Eighteen
Rounds.
Police Sergeant Coles Thought the Marine
Had Had Enough Punishment and
Ordered the Fight Stopped.

Thn monthly entertainment of the Occi-
dental Club last evening was witnessed by
very large gathering OF sporting men, who
were anxious to see II La Blanche had
made any improvement in his style of fight
ing since he appeared in this city.
Prlor TO the event of the evening, which
was contest to a finish between La
Blanche and Alexander Greggains, several
snort set-tos assisted to pass away the time
until the middle weights put in an appear
ance.
The betting I'D to last evening was about
even. but as the time for the contest drew
near, La Blanche's stock advanced. and the
betting wound up at to in his favor.
The purse was $1,000, with $500 to the
loser.
When the pugilists stripped in the ring
La Blanche looked as il he had done very
little training for the battle. Ii he scaled
l62 pounds on the night he fought Dempsey
ne must certainly have weighed at least ten
pounds more last night.
Greggains, on the other hand, doomed up
as me as racer, and was in the very pink
lie was seconded by Martin Murphy and
Patsy Hogan. La Blanche had as his
eSqulres Billy Smith and 4. Butler. Danny
Needham acted as referee.
AT THE SCRATCH.
On toeing the scratch Greggains loomed
up half foot over his stocky opponent,
who carried an every day stomach which
was kept in place by blue sash that en-
circled his body. The local man was the
first to lead with his left ON Georges
stomach. The latter assayed rush and be-
fore he got within hitting distance he re-
made him smack his lips Greggains
finished the round by landing on his OPP
p0nents stomach.
SMASHING AWAY.
In the second round La Blanche settled
down TO make short work of his lanky OPP
penent. He tried few fayorite moves and
as lie got In pretty close hs received heavy
smash on the mouth, which angered the
Marine and again dashing at Alexander he
got under the latter's guard and planted
left and right on Greggains' neck, which
made the local man look very serious. The
Marine tried another rush, but got a stopper
the force of which drove his head back on
hi shoulders. GreggaiDs escaped by a
clever duck. swinging blow that whistled
as 1t shot over the target. 1t was hot one,
but came too late. The end of the round
was all in Greggans' favor. He punched
red spots Oh the Marines stomach and
ratified the latter's front teeth with several
heavy lefts.
A HOT ROUND.
The third round was hot one. La
CUT OUT lie pace anu kept dfeR-
gains dancing ON his feet and lodging, with
his head, blows, any of which might have
ended the fight had they landed. The local
man showed great cleyerness in avoiding
punishment. The Marines stomach seemed
rs if II was a target prepared by the enemy
for glove practice q Every few seconds Greg
gains would plant his left on the delicate
spot. alternating by dropping the glove ON
Georges mouth and nose. The latter grew
desperate as the round grew to a close, and
u inv a .,fE@ Al
lines, So TO speak, he met with hot shot in
the mouth that staggered him. There was
great cheering for Greggains as the bell
sounded corners.
A CLEVER MUG"
La Blanche came up at the call of the
fourth round with blood in his eye. He
went right at his quarry and tried hard to
get within hitting range. He made few
attempts to land. but his blows fell short or
were dueked cleyerly by Greggains, who
continued to drop his left regularly on the
beefy stomach which Georgia carried. The
recelrer-general of good old hash showed
strong signs OF bellows to mend as the fight
progressed La Blanche seemed fairly
puzzled to know how to land his wicked
right; he did not expect to find such a clever
mug. as he now calls Greggains.
ON THE SAME LINES.
The fight had no material change in the
order OF battle during the first four rounds
until 1t was stopped in the eighteenth by
Sergeant Coles. La Blanche seemed un-
able to reach his cunning opponent
although he resorted to all of his fancy
moves. Now and then he made matters
very interesting for Greggains. but the latter
by quick footwork invariably got out of
harms way. In the seventh round Greg
gains happened to push La Blanche down,
and politely offered to assist him on his pins
again.
In the fifteenth round La Blanche got
pretty badly punished. He went to his cor
ner with his mouth painted bright car
mine. His stomach must have been also
very sore. as he would not allow his sec
onds to rub it,
IN THE SCRAMBLE.
During the seventeenth round the crisis
came. After Greggains had scored several
times on La Branches very sore stomach,
the latter made one of his desperate rushes
aud had Greggains cornered near the lat
ter's corner. The Marine smashed at Greg
gains head and missed, as Greggains had
ducked. The local man evidently thinking
that an upper-cut was to follow, grabbed
one OF the Marines legs and held on to that
member until the latter tried to break
to save himself he grabbed Greggains
around the neck. La Blanche fell on the
under rope with his opponent on top.
Greggaips then tried TO arise, but La Blanche
held on to his neck.
A FIsHY FINISH.
Finally, Greggains got up, but the Marine
tried to gain the sympathy Of the crowd by
pretending that he had injured his leg. He
got up eventually and hobbIed to his cor
ner. The referee ordered him to fight on,
but he only guarded himself from the
shower of blows Greggains aimed at him
by putting his hands over his head.
In the eighteenth round Sergeant Coles
stopped the fight and the referee gave it to
Greggains after the President of the club
had said that decision would be given to-
day.