The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-26
FRESHMAN WRFSr1ERs wIN.

Wrestling Last Eventng-The English
Athletes Cheered--Yale Songs Galore
Fifteen Hundred Students Watched the
Contests.
Down in front! Down in 'front.'!
Lightweight '9S. Lightweight 49,"
These cries, intermingled with Yale
cheers rang through the air at High and
Wall streets last night when the Yale
boys assembled for their annual soph-
freshie wrestling. A jolly crowd led
by seniors and juniors formed in line at
Osborn hall at seven o'clock, and head
ed by the Governors Foot Guard band
marched to the Hopkins grammar
school, Captain Thorne, of football
fame. acted as time keeper, while Ives
was referee,
When the collegians reached the cam
pus several hundred sophomores had al
ready gathered on the battle field, and
when the calls for warriors echoed
through the street nearly 1900 Yalen-
slams and their train of admirers crowd
ed the ground and lined the fences
which surrounds two sides of the en-
closure.
The light weight wrestlers were call
ed first, and cries of "Green go"
Green 99n Holland '99r' Holland
99v' rent the air for ten minutes before
two muscular sons of Levi Yale enter
ed the ring and stripped to the waist
for the fray. Kellogg responded for
'9S, and Grace for go The dozen fell
lows who managed the affair helped
their respec i've class champions to strip,
a
word was given.
Two men, clad only in trousers and
shoes, their white shoulders and backs
glistening in the Pickering light of
torches, entered the circle and fac
+ ing each other after the prelimin-
airy handshake, stopped forward and
walked stealthily about for moment,
then. seeing an opening. they clinched.
Their bodies swayed in the uncertain
light for a few seconds amid a breath
less silence and then came a heavy
fall The struggle was continued on
the ground each mans muscles stand
ing out on his arms and chest like huge
bands of steel. Now Grace, now Kel-
logg, gained slight vantage, and each
class sent up cries for its favorite. Fif-
| ty-two seconds by Trainer Thornes
watch the contestants struggled for SUI
lpremacy and then, with a mighty effort,
Grace downed his man.
Ear-splitting shouts rent the air for
several seconds and then all was quiet.
The second round resulted in draw,
much to the dissatisfaction of the
crowd. The men locked on the ground,
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neither able to down the other.
The third round was good battle.
and was won by Grace; time 1:2S. Cries
| of Down in front" drowned the noise
| of the contest part of the time, while
| those in the outer rows of spectators
were unable to see because of the multi
| tude in front
| In the middle-weight class the boys
| who constituted the front ranks sat
down and there was then comparatively
no difficulty in seeingjth the contest.
Clark '98 and GlocoVitch '99 were the
competitors and their battles were more
| tests of Turing power and endurance
than scientific moves and weighty
strength. All three rounds were draws.
| Alternately one man would be under
meath always face down, and his oppo-
| lent could not turn him over. The war
riors were roundly Missed and shouts of
| ''Get up," "Give him a show" "Stick it
| out, fresh,'' and the like filled the air.
| The bout in the midde-weight class
was battle royal. Both men were
powerful, and when they met the shock
| was heard all around the enclosure.
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| wrestlers and when they met they
clinehed and Immediately fell heavily.
They kicked and tumbled about the ring
| a few seconds, and then worked their
way to one side falling and kicking on
the edge of the crowd. The spectators
in the immediate vicinity sprang to
| their feet to give the wrest1ers room.
| The contestants soon separated and
| went to the center of the ring again.
A second time the same thing occurred,
| this time the wrestlers falling on a diff
| ferent side Of the ring.
The third time they went at it, and in
| four or five seconds Monks had his
man down on his side, and in fifty
three seconds from the start he had won
a down.
Then Captain Thorne called for a
cheer for the Cambridge athletes before
| the crowd separated, and his request
was answered with a mighty cheer
Forming in line the boys marched
| through High street, singing the good
| old college songs so familiar to New
Haveners. They marched through
High, Elm, York and Chapel streets to
Osborn hall, where they disbanded, after
a final song and cheer.
A MEETING HELD