The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-29
TAME SPORT In THE RING
The Greggains-Costello Fight at Coney
Island a LODg.Drawn.0ut Affair.
Though h e"Buffalo" Was Repeatedly Knocked
Down he Held Out Till the Eightieth
Round When O Draw Was Declared.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
COMFY ISLAND. Nov. 2S.-The Greggains-
Costello light tonight was q long-drawn-
out affair. After a threatening morning the
rain came down all afternoon. and many
persons who would have liked to see the
''milp remained away. All the same there
was q good crowd present The
fighters in the principal affair of the
evening were Martin Costello. of Buffalo,
and Alexander Greggains of San Francisco.
The men scaled at 156 pounds. Greggains,
who is twenty-six years of age and several
years the junior of Costello, had much the
best of his antagonist In height and reach,
the advantage that helped him defeat
Turner. Billy Mccarthy and La Blanche.
the Marine. Greggains's seconds were Mar
tin Murphy. of San Francisco; Johnny
Murphy, of Boston, and Howey Hodgkins.
of Boston; Mike Cooney, of Boston, timer.
Costello's seconds were Billy Delaney, Cor
belts trainer. Joe Choynskl and Jimmy
Carroll; Jack Sheehan, time-keeper. john
ME Eckhardt was referee.
It was awfully slow for twenty rounds.
Apart from a knock-down by Greggains In
the ninth and first blood for Costello In the
fifth. no damage was done. 1t was more of
q sparring exhibition than a tight. Each
seemed to be afraid of the other.
and each stood way. The crowd re-
manned good natured and stood 1t all.
From the twentieth to the twenth-sixth
round Greggains did some jahbing with his
left on Costeilo's neck ana the Buffalo
mans returns with left and right were
cleyeriy lodged. 1t was q tiresOme ex-
hlbition. The twenty-eiRhth round was
the liveliest SO far. in that Costello under
took to force matters and rushed, only to
meet three stiff left-hand jabs, under one
OF which he twisted his legs and fell
to the floor: Costello. landed one
good left-hander on the breast in
the neck in hard style in the twenty.nlnth
round, and Costello had to run away to
avoid q repetition. In the thirty-seventh
round Greggains again knocked Costello
down by a righ.-hander on the neck, Cos
tel!o took his time getting up. and then
sailed In TO 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
by o couple of solid PUSHES and half q
dozen beautiful cracks on Greggalns's
mouth. Two lively rallies followed, in one
of which Buffalo" found himself on the
floor from a left-hander on the jaw. Greg
gains followed it up with two crushers
on the breast and Costello returned a right
smash on the the mouth. Greggains was
now bleeding freely about the face. but
was still in his head. and had q determined
look in his eyes. His determination petered
out In the fOrty-first round. and he did not
strike q blow. The crowd advised "Buffa-
10" TO keep straight at that nose. and
you're all right"
A hundred or more persons left the hall
at the end of the forty-sixth round.
'GregRains can't hit hard enough to put
that man out" they said. The young man
from San Francisco had lone four-fifths
of the work that had been done ON the Of
fensiye. but he was the worst marked man
of the two. his nose and lips showing
it. Greggains scored his fourth knock.
when he caught Costello with aleft.handeI
on the jaw and a ~right-hander on the neck.
"Buffalo" rose leisurely to his knees before
he stood no. and made no play before the
gong sounded.
first round, when a wave of enthusiasn
swept over the house on Greg.
gains making q swift rush and catch
ing Costello full on the jaw with
the left. Costello was groggy after the
blow. and chung to his antagonist. Then
face. and there was another cheer.
Greggains had apparently got on to
the fact that Costello had hurs his right
hand and went In to finish the fighting.
Costello's injury came in the fortieth
round, when he got in five
time did the enemy discover the we aknees
The Californian let the succeeding rounds
go by without daring to 60 up against Cos
tello's left.
Nothing much occurred up to the sixty
ninth round, when GregQains landed 3
made a rush but was stopped. The fight
ing was kept up ina way till the eiRhtiett
round. when the contest was declared Q
draw.