Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-29
Neither Man Able to Secure a
Knockout.
WAS A VERY TAME FIGHT
Costello Broke His Right Hand and
Greggains was Unable TO Gs, q
Decision in So Rounds.


ing the rain came down and continued
to corie down all afternoon and even
ing and many persons who have liked
to see Costello and Greggains remained
away. All the same there WAS good
crowd ready to see the fight.
The fighters in the principle affair Of
the evening were Martin Costello OF
Buffalo, and Alexander Greggalns Of
San Francisco. The men scaled at l56
pounds. Greggains who is 26 years
old and several years the junior OF
Costello, had much the best Of his an
tagonist in height and reach. The ad-
vantages that helped him to defeat
Turner, the colored middieweight;
Billy Mccarthy and La Blanche, the
marine. There WAS q preliminary
bout as usual in this club. In this case
the contestants were youngsters of ITO
pounds-Danny Mcbride and Connie
Don0van. Mcbride showed that he Is
. good one, for he licked Donovan, =
clever lad, IN five rounds and without
much trouble. 1t was clean knock
out by rignt-hander on the jaw.
Very slow At First
When the big bout came on there
were many sports in the building. who
are known the world over by name.
Think of all the men whose titles are
best known in the way of backers and
attendants at this game who come
from this part of the country and you
will have them without q miss IN your
mind. johnnie Eckhsrdt refereed the
bout. Billy Delaney and Brooklyn
Jimmy Carroll were Costello's prin-
cipal seconds, and the two Murphys,
Tom and John, did most of the work
in Greggains' corner. At ii O'Clock
Joe Choynskl came in and assumed
command IN COstello's province.
1t was an awfully slow fight for
twenty rounds. Costello won first
blood IN the fifth round by = left hand
jab ON the nose and in tho thirteenth
Greggains knocked Costello down by q
cross counter on the neck. But apart
from these cracks no damage was
done. Each man was clever and
stopped the blows of his antagonist
very nicely; yet neither did anything
Of the vicious kind. 1t was more q
sparring exhibition than 4 fight. Each
| seemed to be afraid of the other and
each stood away. The crowd remained
good natured and stood it all.
GresKains' wicked Left.
From the twentieth to the twenty
sixth round Greggains did some jab-
| bing with his left on Costello's neck,
and "Butfal0's" return with mis- right
were cleverly lodged. 1t was a tire
some exhibition. The twenty-elghth
| round was the liveliest so far. in that
| Costello undertook to force matters
and rushed, only to meet three stiff
| left-hand jabe, under one of which be
| twisted his legs and fell TO the floor.
| Costello landed one good left-hander
on the breast in this round. Greggains
| landed q right on the neck in hard
style in the twenty-eighth round, and
| Costello had to run away to avoid .
| repetition. In the thirty seventh round
| Greggains again knocked Costello down
by q right-hander on the neck. Cos
tello took his time getting up. and then
sailed into the Californian. He got IN
FIVE stiff punches, two on the body,
two on the face and one on the neck
before he stopped.
The next interesting round Was the
fortieth, when Costello opened pro-
l (CCutukS w u SOhRio VA SOitu t0SuCc
| and half dozen beautiful cracks on
| Greggain's mouth. Two lively rallies
followed, in one of which Buffalo
found himself on the floor from left
handler on the jaw. Greggains fol-
lowed 1t up with two crushers on the
breaet and Costello returned q right
/, smash on the mouth. Greggains WAS
now bleeding freely about the face but
was still on his feet and had a deter.
mined look III his eye.
Buffalo Plays for the Face.
His determination gave out in the
forty first round all the same, for he
| did not strike a blow. Costello got in
more on the nose in this round and
the crowd advised buffalo" to
keep straight at that nose
and you're all right"
hundred or more men left the hall
at the end of the fortieth round.
"Greggains can't hit hard enough to
pull that man out" they said, showing
that In their opinion the California an
had done most OF the leading, but va,
without sufficient force TO make q first
class fighter. The young mau
from san Francisco bad done
four. fifths OF the work. a. he had
been on the offensive. but he Was the
worst marked man OF the two, his noss
and lips showing II. Greggsins scored
his fourth knock down in the fifty y-firs
round when he caught Costello with
left handler on the neck. Buffalo
rose ieisurely TO his knees before h,
stood up and made no play before th'
gong sounded.
Costello Hart. ms Right
Fiddiing was the rule up 10 the SIX
ty.firet rouud, when wave of enthu
slssm swept over the house on Greg
game making ssift rush aud catan
ing Costello suii or the Jaw with rat
left Costello VAS groggy after ia
blow and chung to his antagonist. 1hel
Costello let his left 80 ia;o ,iteggsiE'
face and there Was another cteer
Gregrsln had apparently get on &
} the hght fact that Costello hsd hurt hi
right hand and sent IN 10 nnlsh th
faint.
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fosteth round. whe3 he got in shos
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