The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-27
FISTIANA.
Greggains and Costello in Fine Fettle fcr
the Coming Mill.

NEW YORK, Nov. pa knowledge Of
things pugilistic turns thought toward;
the mill bext Monday at Coney island
| This is bound to be a hard fight, for botl
men are going in on their preparatory
work for all they are worth. Costello is at
his fighting weight O5S poundsl. and Greg
gains is said to be two pounds under tha,
weight. He will now have enough beef
and Drawn to Withstand the battering
rams of the Buffalo" Greggains has a
clear record of winning fights. The only
time he failed to land first money was in
his battle with his prospective antas sonist,
with whom he fought q terrific battle,
ending in a draw. Greggains was the win
ncr of nineteen contests during his anna
teur career, and the slasbing he gave La
Blanche, Mccarthy anu Turner in the pro-
fessionai ranks stamps him as a crack in
the middleweight class Should he prove
the better man next Monday night he will
find lots of eastern money TO back him for
fight with either Hall or Fitzsimmons.
Buff Costello has but one defeat
marked down against him. That occurred
when he fought Frank p. Slivin on the
turf in Australia, and it is a well known
fact that Ill two other meetings on che
boards Costello proved himself the better
boxer. Costello has record of twenty
nine battles in Africa and Australia, most
of them being with heavyweights. If hard
and honest work will win fights then Cos
tello has already cinched the long end of
the purse. He has worked long and faith
fully. and when he steps into the RUG at
the Corey Island Athletic club on Monday
night the spectators will be treated to a
contest that may never perhaps be dupli.
Gated.
Tom O'Rourke, who is managing Greg
gains, has seen fit to cover the 81 ,0O0 post.
ed by Jimmie Carroll. to make a match
for Griffin against the colored lad. There
seems to lie "A pretty well defined notion
among Dixon's friends that in Griffin he
will meet his Waterloo. There is said to
be no doubt that O'Rourke and his pro-
tege are more or less afraid of the man
from Braintree. Carroll says that he has
used every means in his power to make a
match, but that he has been unable to
meet O'Rourke in anything like reason
able frame OF mind. O'Rourke is talking
Of arranging match with the kentucky
Rosebud The Rosebud should be very
easy game for Dixon. and it will not
change the opinion of nine out OF ten OF
the sporting men, which is that Dixon
cannot whip Griffin.
The latest news from "L1nnon" is iu-
teresting TO fighters and their followers.
Jim Hall is not rushing into the mill
WITH bon fltZSlmmOD5 WITH MS eyes
closed. He wants things made nice and
plain and understood by everybody. So,
too, is jim ''cagey" on the purse question.
He demands the hoisting up of S., 600
forfeit by the Crescent City club, just a
guarantee of good faith, as it were.
An effort is under way to bring about n
1oround go between Jack McAuiiffe and
Mike Daley of Bangor. The Coney Island
Athletic club has been approached with a
view 70 hosting up tempting purse: and
it need not be one of fanciful figures eth
er, for it is said that Jack turned his box
down on the last book he made on the
races, and few modest thousands would
come in right handy now.
Ike Weir the Belfast spider, is in New
York looking for 3 fight. He will fight
any man in tie world at 122 younds. he
says He prefers TO meet some OF the
crack English pugilists, who are said to be
coming to this country, bat he does not
object to meeting d ohnny Griffin.
he news from Milwaukee that W. c.
Sanger, the crack racing man o. that Sec
ton, had deposited 500 70 bind the mnch-
mooted Sl0C coo match with Zimmerman
is received with little credence by the
wheelmen OF this vicinity. zimmerman
is known to be entirely out OF form, and
that he would risk meeting ~ this time
Is not probable.