The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-06
PugiIistlc Cadets.

IN TIIE TwENTY-F0UI-F00T RING WITH ALI
THE ACCEssORIEs-A RIGID INVESTIGATION
UNDER WAY.
[By telegraph to the New York Herald.J
NEwBuRG. n. Y. August 4.-Thc mo-
notony OF routine life at the military post,
West Point, has Just been varied by gen
nine priZe-fght between two cadets, with
seconds and referee. The mill occurred on
Wednesday morning between 10 and ii
O'Clock, and the principals were Cadets
Frank a. Cook, eighteen years old, and
Edward n. Scudder, twenty-one years old.
Scudder was Knocked out in true Sullivan
style, and was carried to the hospital in an
insensible condition. Scudder was ap-
pointed from Mississippi and Cook from
Rhode Island. The former is iourth-class
pcbe and Cook is third-class man. The
referee was Alfred B. Jackson, who be-
longs TO next years graduating class, and
is from Massachusetts. There are two re-
ports regarding the difficulty out OF which
sprang the fight. One is that Scudder
got into trouble with an officer OF his
company. who cursed him. This he would
not submit to, said that they could do any
thing else, but he would not stand that
consequently he challenged the officer to
fight, but the latter refused. and, according
TO prevailing custom, got another to do the
fighting for him. To this Scudder assented
and the mill followed.
Another report says that Scuddor AMIGA
bly settled the dispute between himself and
the officer, and that the trouble between
him and Cook, with whom he fought, was
an entirely different difficulty, the nature
OF which is not vet revealed. Whichever
-I,t no ~ arfe in l. lot
the fight took place in artistic prize-ring
style on Wednesday morning.
Scudder and Cook, accompanied by Re-
fierce Jackson and two cadets rs seconds,
whose names the reporter could not ascer-
tain, went up the back road to near an old
blacksmith's shop, ali prepared for the
fight. Everything had apparently been pre-
arranged, and when the five reached the
green sward on the side OF the road be-
tween the New Observatory building and
Fort Putnam, the ring was struck
and the bcligerents went to work.
The result Of the fight was that Scud-
der was completely knocked out, although
he is not only the oldest, but much the
largest Of the two. One report has it that
Scudder stood the terrific punching for
three quarters Of an hour before he gave
up, while another says he succumbed TO
Cooks batteries in three OF four rounds
He is badly bruised and marked up, while
Cook is said to be comparatively unin-
jured.
While Scudder was lying inscnsiblc Jake
Foster, OF Highland Falls, drove along,
and was hailed and asked to take him to q
hospital, which he did.
Hospital-Steward Hill says that when
Foster drove up TO the hospital, Scuddcr
was piled on boxes in an insenslbe condi-
ton, with cadet on each side OF him. Six
men, three besides Foster and the two ca
diets, carried him in. Hill says that Scud-
der was such horrible sight he took him
for an injured Westshore laborer, and first
said to the party, "Take him away; |
don't want him at the cadet hospital. As
soon as he was laid out OH the bed hewa
taken with a sudden spell, which enabled
the other cadets to escape before Hill iden-
tilted them, his attention being given to the
sick and injured man. He is now attended
by DR.. Alexander, the post surgeon. The
affair is the only topic Of conversation now
at the post, rs it is the first fight since Gene
raj Howard was appointed.
4 rigid investigation is TO be made. The
officers are not inclined to talk, but il is
known that the two seconds, Cook and the
referee Jackson, are all under arrest and
will be held to await the investigation.
This is already in progress by Judge Nd
vocate Woods, and will, OF course, lead to
court-martial and probably dismissal from
the Academy OF all connected with the mill.