Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-29
A WONDERFUL BATTLE.
Greggalns and Costello Are More Thai
Four Hours in the Ring.

Greggains and Costello Are More Than
Four Hours i'm the Ring.
CoNEY ISLAND ATHLETIC CLUE, n. T.. Nov.
2S-The attendance at the athletic contest
| at the Coney Island Athletic Club tonight
was remarkably slim. There was not want
ing any enthusiasm even though the crowd
was small. The entertainment opened with
ten-round conte st between Danny Mo
Bride and Con Donovan. Mcbride knocked
his opponent out In the fifth round ana 70
ceived q purse of $500. Time, II minutes
The event of the evening, the contest be.
tween Costello. OF Buffalo and Greggains. or
San Francisco came next Early In the day
the betting was TO 4 on Costello. but TO-
ward evening the odds grew less as It became
known that Greggains was in good shape;
At the ring side the betting was 100 to b ana
quickly went up to loo 70 so
that Then it went to 100 to 80 and then
there were not many takers. This was the
status of affairs when the master or cere-
monies announced that the bout between
"Aleck Greggains, of San Francisco. and
Martin Costello, of Buffalo, n. Y, would be
a 2O-round contest or more" Groggains'
seconds were Martin Murphy, Of San Fran
aodgkins, of Boston, and Mike cooney,
of Boston, timer. Costello's seconds were
Billy Delaney, Corbett's trainer, Joe
Choynski and Jimmy Carroll; Jack sheehan,
timekeeper. Both men weighed at ring
side at l5s pounds, and when they stepped
into the ring they looked the pictures OF
manly perfection ana without an ounce OF
superfluous flesh on either OF them. lmme.
diately upon their appearance there was
loud applause from every side of the house
1t was 10 o'clock when they entered the
ring.
The first ten rounds we're comparatively
tame and even. In the second round Cos
tello got "irst blood" AT the end OF the
tenth round honors were-eyen and both men
fresh.
The fighting up to the 2oth round was
much brisker and Costello fought with
vigor Greggains stood of his rushes we'll
In the goth round Costello caught Greggains
twice in the stomach, Greggafns going down
twice, but the punishment was ot severe.
From the twentieth to the twenty-eighth
round Greggains began TO take the lead and
fought with remarkable Judgment. Several
rounds were SO tame that much unfavorable
comment was caused.
When the thirty third round had been
reached Greggsins had much the best OF it
and in the thirty-si1th round Costello
showed with renewed strength. The next
three rounds were tame, but in round 40
Costello forced the fighting and hammered
Greggains' nose till the blood covered his
lace The round ended By Greggains scor-
ing the first knockdown Of the fight
The fighting was varied up to the
fiftietn round, when Greggains once
first round Costello was knocked clear
down and took his full 10 seconds in order to
get a rest. For the next four rounds there
was no fighting and the crowd yelled:
Eight fghtf''
AT the sixty-second round the lights went
out and many of the audience were asleep.
There was no fighting; the principals were
simply walking round the ring. In the
sixty-third. stxty-fourth and si1ty-fifth
there was no fighting, except that Costello
got blow in on Greggains' stomach
in the sixty-fifth round. Il was rumored
that Costello had broken his hand and could
not force the fighting. In the sixty-siNth
and sixty-seventh rounds not blow was
struck. The affair was still going on when
this report closed.