The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-29
A LONG DRAWN BATTLE.
Greggains and Costello Fight For
Eighty Rounds.
THE CONTEST DECLARED A DRAW.

Coney l6laad Athletic club rather went
back on them yesterday. After a threat
ening morning the rain came down and
continued to come down all afternoon
and evening, and many persons who
would have liked TO see Costello and
Greggains fight remained away. All
the same there was a good crowd ready
to see the fight.
The easy prices Of So and IS which
have been adopted by the club, have
proved a strong incentive to attract
lovers of boxing among the many who
cannot afford to give higher price.
The fighters in the pricipal affair of
of the evening were Martin Costello, of
Buffalo, N. Y, and Alexander Greg
G aims. of San Francisco. Both men
trained faithfully for the fight. They
We're called iniddleweights, and scaled at
1866 pounds, yet an authority III pugil-
istic matters cannot be found who will
say that middleweights is an ounce over
1874. The fight was for e., 800, the winner
to receive $500.
Greggains, who is 26 years old, and
several years the junior of Costello, is
built largely on the Fitzsimmons plan
all shoulders, chest and arms, and com
paratively without legs. ffe had much
the best Of his antagonist in height
and reach, the advantages that helped
him to defeat Turner, the colored
middleweight; Billy Mccarthy and La
Blanche, the marine.
There was preliminary bout, as is
usual in this club. In this case the con-
testants were youngsters of 10 pounds,
Danny Mcbride and Connie Donovan.
Mcbride downed Donovan, clever lad,
in five rounds, and without much trou
BILE. 1t was a clean knock out by a right
handler GU the jaw.
When the big bout came on there were
many sports i'll the building who are re-
nowned the world over by name
Johnnie Eckhardt refereed the bout
Billy Delaney and Brooklyn Jimmy Car
roll were Costello's principal seconds,
and the two Murphys, Tom and John,
did most of the work in Greggain's cor
ner. At IL o'clock Joe Choynski came
in and assumed command in Costello's
province.
1t was an awfully slow fight for twenty
rounds. True, Costello won first blood
in the fifth round by left hand jab on
the nose, and in the fourteenth Greg
gains knocked Costello down by cross
counter on the neck. But apart from
these cracks no damage was done. Each
man was clever and stopped the blows
of his antagonist very nicely. Yet
neither did anythingof the vicious kind.
1t was more of sparring exhibition
than fight. Each seemed to be afraid
of the other, and each stood away. The
crowd remained good natured and stood
1t all. From the twentieth to the TWEEN.
ty-sixth round Greggains did some jab-
bing with his left ON Costello's neck, and
"Buffalo's" returns with his left and
right were cleverly lodged. 1t was d
\ tiresomo exhibition.
The twenty-eighth round was the
hveliest. Costello undertook to force
matters, and rushed to meet three stiff
jabs, under which he fell to the floor
Costello landed one good left handler on
| the breast in this round. Greggains
landed right on the neck in hard style
in the twenty eighth round, and Cos.
tello had to run away to avoid repeti-
ton. In the thirty-seventh round Greg
= gains again knocked Costello down by d
, right handler on the neck. Costello took
his time getting up, and then sailed int
! the Californian. He got in five stiff
Ipunches-two on the body, two on tho
face and one on the neck-before ht
stopped.
The next best round was the fortieth,
when Costello opened proceedings by q
couple of solid PUSHES and half Il dozeI
beautiful cracks on Greggains mouth
Two lively rallies followed, in one OF
I which Buffalo found himself on the
, floor from left handler on the ia
: Greggains followed it up with two
: crushers on the breast, and Costello re
, turned right smash on the mouth
Greggains WAS now bleeding freely abou
: the face, but was still on his feet AM
had determined look in his eyes. Hi
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r first round, all the same, for he did mo-
strike blow. Costello got in one NOR,
on the nose in this round, and the GROVE
F, advised Buffalo" to keep straight al
that nose and you're all right"
A hundred or more men left the hal
at the end of the forty eighth round
"Greggains can't hit hard enough to put
: that fellow out, they said, showing that
in their opinion, the Californian hat
done most of the leading, but withou
sufficient force to make first elias
n tighter.
J Greggains scored his fourth knock
down III the ffty-flrst round, when h
caught Costello with left handler OF
the jaw and right handler ON the neck
Buffalo rose lelsurely to his knees be
fore he stood up, and made no pla
before the gong sounded.
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