Evening journal., 1892-11-29
CONEY ISLANDS FIGHT
Costello and Greggains Srrug-
gle in the Ring.
FOR $4,000 AND A LITTLE FAME,

Thousands of Sports at the Ring Side
See the Bloody Struggle of Middle
weights-They Fought Eighty Rounds
and Both Were Badly Battered.
CoNEY ISLAND ATHLETIC CLUB, N. Y,
Nov 29.-After fierce fight Of eighty
rounds. in each one of which honors
were about gevenly divided, the lGreg-
gain Costello fight was this morning de-
clared draw. Both men displayed
much science and great power Of .endur-
ance.
First Round. .-Greggains tried with
his left, landing lightly on the mouth.
Costello essayed TO counter, but the San
Franciscan guarded well. They spared
again until just before the gong struck,
when Greggains sent his left to body
and missed the face with his right
Second Round. .-Greggains led for the
st tomach. Costello followed suit a
moment later with two lefts aimed in the
same direction, which ..also fell short
Then Costello swung his left and grazed
Greggains' nose enough to draw blood
Costello landed lightly on the chest,
missed right-hand swing, then put a
straight right hghly on the stomach.
Third Round. d.-They spared for a
minute and Greggains put his right on
Martins ribs. Costello, however, got in
one with his left, but Martin stepped
aside Just in time to avoid the right
hand swing which followed. Costello
got his left on the wind.
HonOrs were about even until the
twenty-seeond round, when Greggains
rushed Costello against the ropes and
tried to nail him with his right Cos.
tello fell to avoid punishment. Now
came much tedious sparring About
once a minute a blow would be struck,
This sort of thing went on through the
twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty
fifth and twenty-sixth rounds. Mex
began to go out as the theatre between
the acts.
Round forty was Of the hurrican,
order. The crowd had just begun q
whistle "Home. Sweet Home, wheI
suddenly Costello swung IN a left hant
counter on the nose that started it bleed
ing frightfully. Then Costello swung tire
mendous right crack on the jaw, tw,
more left swings on the nose and one ol
ths neck. The blows were heavy enougl
to kill bulls, but beyond a great flow o
blood Greggains showed no i'll effects
Costello rushed in to finish his man
They clinched, and Costello slipped an
fell Up aud at it again, and anothe
clinch. simultaneously with the clan
of the gong they broke away, and Greg
gains put in a short left swing on tn
neck amid roars of applause
In the forty third round Greggain
came out of his corner as fresh as
whole bunch of daisies and began (
force, not the fighting, but the sparrinl
D Greggains caught Costello with a har
left straight in the neck as he came
{ swinging for the head. This was in th
forty-ffth round. Neither the forty
Z fourth nor the forty-sixth resulted
anything serious.
{ In the clinch in the forty y-sevent
g Greggains landed his left ON the necl
4 During the forty-eighth round a fev
e hundred men hissed and all the res
| whistled "Home. Sweet Home.
/ In the fifty first round the men ~
peared to be playing for ga draw. Tw
of the lights over the ring went on
After the fifty-four round many spect,
4 tors left the building
4 The men fought on and on, neithe
gaining any headway untilithe' eightiet
+, round when the referee declared it
draw.