Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-20
SPORTS AND SPORT.
THE GREGGAINS-C COSTELLO MILL ATTRACTING
A GREAT DEAL OF AFTEaTION.
All Eyes Turning to the Big Foot Ball Games Of
Thanksgiving Day-Fhe New York Press
Clubs Big Athletic Carnival Will Be
Great Hit-GOssip of Boxers and
Fightsrs-A Sports Big Win
ming at Faro.

thing out the great game Oh hanHo'son
field THANKSGIVING Day.
The Greggains-Costello battle, which
will take place On Monday, November
%, at the Coney Island Athletic Club,
promises to be one Of the most famous
that has ever been decided in the stake
less ring of the club by the sea. Both
men are masters Of the art OF boxing,
aud each aspires TO the middleweight
championship OF the world. The win
ner will without doubt be matched to
fight the victor in the Hall-Fitzsimmons
contest. The future of Costello and
Greggains depends upon the outcome OF
their meeting on the 2Sth, and they are
carefully preparing fer IL, Costello at
the Navesink Highlands, with Peter
Msher and Joe McGrath, and Greggains
at SauguS, Mass, under the eye OF his
manager, Martin Murphy, and HOWE
Hodgklns.
sit would be difficult to imagine a
place better suited for training grounds
for athletes than the spot at the High
lands Of Neversink, where Maher, Cos
tello and McGrath are getting in form
for their mills. The men are domiciled
at comfortable hotel just below the
turreted towers in closing the twin
lights OF the Highlands. Costello is
training earnestly, honestly and I'M
grudgingly. He fairly loves his work
and revels in it all day. He means to
get in the finest possible condition for
his fight with Greggains on the 2sth,
and if conscientious preliminary work
will put him there he will be all right
on that night. His right hand bothers
him sane still aud he is favoring 1t con-
sideraby. 1t will be remembered that
he injured it severely by falling over
chain fence at Coney Island the night
Of the Chopinski-Godfrey mill. Costello
new weighs -h71S pounds and will go
into ths'ring at I5s or 159.
Maher is going it slow in his work,
and the casual visitor would say 1ie was
indolent and averse to training. He
looks very well and says he fells all
right, but the modicum OF work he did
yesterday was poor criterion to Judge
him by. His trainer, Tom Clark, says
that he is doing all that is necessary,
and that he will be In winning form on
December %, when Goddard faces him,
McGrath is extremely lazy for little
fellow TO De coming up against such
crack-a-jack as Billy Plimmer, but he
may buckle to his work after while, and
put some ginger into his gait by the
time he meets Plimmer, December %.
Maher did little unlocked for sprint
ing the other day to get out OF the way
Of a Long Branch express on the
Shrewsbury River bridge, and ne
showed fine burst of speed, which
probably saved his lie.
Sports who have fine eye for shines"
on pugilists say Greggains will win his
fight with Costello.
And now for another batch of caloric
fighting talk. Jimmy Carroll has put
up 81, 900 to bind match between his
clever feather-weight, Johnny Griffin,
OF Braintree, and the little Senegam-
bian champion, George Dixon. Carroll
says, however, that he will not permit
Griffin 10 fight at less than 100 pounds,
and this, he adds, is two pounds lighter
than the Legitimate avoirdupois of feath-
err weights. AS Tom O'Rourke insists
Just as emphatically that George shall
not scrap at over lis, and demands the
same weight from Griffin, IL is not easy
to see that muss is a surety OF the
near future. After Dixon, Carroll says
the match is open TO young Critic, OF
Australia, Billy Murphy, Ike Weir, or
any man in the leather-weight class.
Meanwhile O'Rourke says there is 81, 900
up for Billy Murphy to cover and take
on a mill with Dixon at lis, but not an
ounce heavier. Something tangible in
the scrapping line surely ought to come
out OF all this conversation.
Phil Dryer has denied that he is Cor
belts hacker, and says that he never
backed o fighter in his life. What Is
more, he does not intend to. He adds,
however, that he is willing to advise
Corbett, and il he Is short Of money is
willing to advance him any reasonable
amount. He has announced that he will
not In the future hold any more stakes.
The several committees OF the New
York Press clubs proposed athletic car
nival at Madison Square Garden on the
afternoon aud evening of Saturday. De-
cember II, are working hard to make
the affair a success. The proceeds
Of the meeting to go to the
building fund OF the club and
it is intended to make the occasion
memorable, The entertainment COM
mittee is arranging an athletic pro-
gramme that will eclipse anything OF its
kind ever given in the city. Foot racing,
hurdling, jumping, bicycling, lacrosse,
foot ball,tug of war, wrestling on horse
back, fencing on horseback and other
equestrian performances are some OF the
sports already decided upon. The COM
mittee will aim to make the afternoon
performances particularly attractive to
women and children.
Sporting men are much excited over
a report that AL. Smith, the we'll known
soorting man, had bucked the tiger and
won SO, AGO in cold cash. or this
amount he is said to have won $4,000 at
one sitting aud 50, 400 stanother. III all
accounts are true this is the way Smith
won his small fortune: Over year ago
friend bet him 5000 that he would not
abstain from liquor year. Smith TOOK
the bet and his year expired last Sun
day. On the day following he went to a
gambling resort in West Twenty eighth
street aud began to play faro.
He STAYED there two days and
two nights, eating and drinking
at the table and taking short maps attn
tervsIs. When he arose from the table
he was $50. 900 richer and pretty well
filed with champagne. He went home
according to the story, but returned
next day and played an hour "tor car
far he won 50, 400 in that time. AL.
Smith, has been the hacker OF walking
matches and of John L. Sullivan; owns
A half interest In the White Elephant
pool room and has made money in all