The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-27
GRIFFIN DOWNS LYNCH.
A Lively Fight for the Feather
weight Championship.
KNOCKED OUT IN FIVE ROUNDS

The New Yorker Yields to the Bay
State Pugilist, Who Had the Best
of the Battle from the Outset.
Griffin Issues a Challenge to George
Dixon.
CoNEY ISLAND. Sept 27.-The fight be-
tween Johnny Griffin, of Braintree,
Mass, and Jimmy Lynch, of New York,
for 81, 800 and the featherweight cham
pionship, drew big crowd to the Coney
Island Athletic club last night. Prior
to that fight there was fifteen round
go between Sam Kelly, of the Westside
Athletic club, and Bob Cunningham, of
the brooklyn Athletic club. They fought
like demons. Cunningham knocked
Kelly down once, but the Westside man
was up in no time and made rush
which told upon the others face. 1t
was blood for blood all the way through.
Cunningham, however, did the hardest
and most effective work and got the de-
cision. The boys were both well cut up.
They had made the best fight that has
been seen at Coney Island. Kelly was
by no means a badly defeated man.
Betting on Griffin and Lynch early in
the day was from 800 to $50 to 500 to
$50 in favor of Griffin, strong Boston
ian contingent offering quantity of
money on him. Last night change
took place in favor of Lynch, and ut the
call of time the betting was $40 to so in
Griffin's favor. Griffin's seconds were
Professor Robertson, of Bay st. Louis,
Jimmy Carroll and Jack Sheehan.
Lynchs assistants were Joe Choynski,
Walter Campbell, of Philadelphia, Jack
Quinn, trainer, and Joe Lyttle.
The Battle by Rounds.
After the usual preliininaries the boys
were quickly put to work
First Round-Lynch rushed Griffin to
the ropes and punched him hard. Then
Griffin rushed his man and hammered
him hard. Lynch got in one ON Giiffin's
cheek. A clinch followed and might
ing ensued.
Second Round-Grif1in opened by lead
ing left and right for Lynch's stomach.
The hardest kind of fighting followed.
Griffin went at Lynch in terrific style
and soon had his antagonist groggy.
The fighting was furious while il lasted,
and it was one to three that Lynch could
not recover. He went against the ropes
and lay there. Griffin went at him and
thumped and hammered him. Lynch,
however, came out of it like game
cock but it was easily seen that he
wasn't in it.
Third Round-Gritfin appeared to have
cinch on Lynch. He knocked him
down four times. The first couple of
times Lynch was knocked outside the
ropes. but he always got back in time
and made good enough fight to cause
the crowd to yell like S.admen.
T-SA T
| Choynski's wonderful handling, came
out from his corner and assumed the
aggressive. Griffin was in on him with
| the left and right on the stomach, and
Lynch again became groggy, Griffin
knocked him down with right handler
on the ear and once again Jimmy sought
| the floor from left hand smash on the
neck. For the third time Lynch went
down under swing under the nose and
| the New Yorker was out of it, though
he came up gamely every time. The
house rose en- masse on every recovery
that he made and cheered him wildly
Fifth Round-Lynch came up bravely
and let go left and right on Griffins
| face, but his blows were Intellectual.
| Griffin put him on the floor three times.
Lynch got up twice, but the third time
he was done and could not do so again.
| Griffin had sailed into him with both
hands and won the fight Five rounds
were enough for the gamest man that
has stood in the arena for the Coney Isl
and club.
| Griffin was awfully tired when he got
through. He had cut eve, n bloody
nose and much punched month. Poor
Lynch had bad eye, swollen nose
and bulging lips. His stomach, too, was
red and sore.
After the fight Griffin challenged
George Dixon TO fight at 1lS pounds, to
weigh in six hours before entering the
ring the same terms that Dixon made
with Jack Skelly. Tom O'Rourke,
Dixon's manager, would not consent.
He wanted it to be 1l6 pounds, to weigh
in at the ringside,