Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-27
KING FOOT BALL
Has AbdIeated In Favor of Pugilism For
Brief Season-TO-MOrrOw Nights Big

Football like Santa Claus only comes
once year and Of course he Is treated
like the Monarch he is. New York
simply gets up on her hind legs and
wells for him. Everybody expected
Yale to win; but what time she mad
of it. For two years the New Haven
team have met and defeated all corners
without allowing point to be scored
against them. Last year Yale had In
many ways a star eleven but this year
there is nothing but careful training
and skillful coaching that can explain
the record made by the men who defeat
ed Princeton.
Princeton did much to lose the game
before she began it. She won the toss,
but chose the west goal and let Yale
take the ball. No worse move Ior
Princeton and no better one for Yale
could possibly have been made. III
would seem as though Princeton should
not have forgotten what happened TO
Harvard a year ago at Springfield, when
Yale started off with the ball and Nc
Chung lodged through the crimson
players for a touchdown before they
fully realized that the game had begun.
But that lesson, II ever learned, was
forgotten, and Princeton put trump
card In Yale's hands. When Yale gets
the chance to start of in a game with
the ball it gladdens the hearts OF all ner
supporters, for they know what 1t
means.
Now that the smuggling match par ex-
cellence of the year, except the foot
ball match, has been fought and won,
the adept in the knowledge OF things
pugilistic turns his thoughts to the mill
next Monday night at Coney Island be-
tween Greggains and Costello. This is
bound TO be a blinking hard night, Tor
both men are going in on their prepara-
tory work for all they are worth. Cos
tello is at his fighting weight, los
pounds, and Greggain is two pounds
under that weight. He will need all
the beef and Drawn he can safely carry
to withstand the battering ram blows
Of the Buffalo.
Greggalns has clear record OF win
ming fights. The only time he failed 10
land first money was in his battle with
his prospective antagonist, with whom
he fought fifty rounds OF terrific slug
ging, ending in draw. Greggains was
the victor in forty-nine contests during
his amateur career and the slashing he
gave La Blance, Mccarthy and Turner,
| in the professional ranks, puts him a
crack-a-jack in the middle weight class.
! Should he prove the better man next
Monday night he will find lots Of East
ern money to back him In light with
either Hall or Fitzslmmons.
Buff" Costello has but one defeat
marked down against him. That &C.
Cured when he fought Frank p. SlaVin
on the turf in Australia, and 1t Is well
known fact that he in two other meet
ings on the boards proved himself the
better boxer. Costello has record OF
thirty-nine battles in America and Aus
tralia, most Of them being with heavy
weights. II hard and honest work will
win fights, then Costello has already
| clinched the long end Of the purse. DE
has worked long and faithfully, and
when he steps into the stakeless ring al
the Coney Island Athletic Club on Mon
day night the spectators will be treated
to contest that may never perhaps be
duplicated again.
Tom O'Rourke, who is managing Geo.
| Dixon, has not seen fit to cover the
| 81, 900 posted by Jimmie Carroll in order
! to make q match for Griffin against the
colored lad. There seems to be a pretty
well defined notion among DiXon'S
friends that in Griffin he will meet his
Waterloo. There Is said to be no doubt
that O'Rourke and his portege are more
or less afraid Of the man from Brain
tree. Carroll says he has used every
means in his power in order to make
match but he has been unable to get
O'Rourke in anything like a reasonable
frame OF mind.
The latest news from "Lunnon" is In
teresting to fighters and their followers
Jim Hall is not rushing into the mil
with Bob Fitzsimmons with his eye:
closed. He wants things made nice
and plain and understood by everybody
so, too, is jim "Cagey" on the purse
question. He demands the hosting w
Of a SIS, 900 forfeit by the Crescent City
Clue, just as guarantee of good faith
as it were.
An effort IS under way to bring about
a ten-round go between Jim McAuliffe
and Mike Daily, of Bangor. The Coney
Island Athletic Club has been ap
preached with a view to hosting up 8
tempting purse. And it need not be
one of fanciful figure either, for 1t Is
said Jack turned his box down" on the
last book be made on the races and g
few modest thousands would come In
right handy.
Ike Weir, the "BeIfast Spider" is Ia
New York looking for fight. He will
fight any man in the world at II;
pounds. He says he prefers to meet
some Of the crack English pugilist'
who are said to be coming to this coun
try, but he does not object to meeting
Johnny Griffin.