The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-02
A STUDENT QUALIFICATION
HIGH TIMES AT THE IN1ERCEA
 B.iSEBALL GAIIE YESTERD1Y.

A Fantastic Parade-Two Cannon and a
 Battalion Armed With Shot Guns-other
 Rushes-Edward Atkin Shot With n
 Powder Charge-Freshmen Won the
 Game-Sophs Penned Up-Incidents of
 the Afternoon.
 Rah! Rah! Rah! '9S, and Rah! Rah! Rah! '99 were the yells which, mingled with the blowing of horns, booming of shotguns and miniature cannon, and such noises as only students know how to make, rent the air In the vicinity of Yale field yesterday, and it is doubtful if the atmosphere in that neighborhood has yet settled into it's usual fifteen pounds-per-squ square-inch pressure, The tympanums and lungs was the first of the baseball games for the interclass championship, the contestants being the teams of '9S and '99
 The spring game between the two lower classes is always an occasion for an overflow of fun, and every device imaginable Is resorted to for the sakc of making one class more conspicuous than the other
 The sophomores had laid their plans to excel not only the efforts of '99 in this direction, but also to throw in the shade all previous demonstrations of this sort, and they succeeded remark ably we'll
 At $50 the SophomoreS to the number of between three and four hundred as sembled at the Hopkins grammar school lot to have parade previous to the game. At 3:45 the parade started and it was at once apparent from their actions that there would be fun before the afternoon was over. At the head of the line were six sophomores on horseback, each one wearing on his
 breast letter or numeral, so that in the order in which they rode the letters spelled out in large blue capitals Yale 'a8" Next came a division of about fifty sophs as a sort of van guard. At the head of this division were four stu- dents dressed in policemen's uniforms and carrying large clubs, and just be- hind the "cops" came a gallant soph supporting on either arm an apparent ly gay young female, but these were in reality Cowan '9S and Scheftel '9S. who looked stunning in their feminine make up.
 Smedleys big tally-ho coach had been pressed into service and crowd of t1f- teen students blowing tinhorns from one foot to six in length helped to in crease the frightful din. A large black dog, the '9S mascot with the class nu- morals painted on his back and a big cowboy hat on his head, was conspic-
 uous feature. An extremely antiquat- ed old hack drawn by an equally an- cient horse, one of the "hat-rack" spe- cies, cut an amusing figure with it's load of students.
 | A large battalion of about fifty stu dents carrying shotguns and two small cannon, added a Warlike but at the
 same time the desired farcical appear
 ance to the procession. One of the
 cutest features of the parade was the
 '"99 heavy artillery as it was desig-
 mated on large white banner This battery consisted of four sophs and for
 ordance a goat, no doubt a good bat tery at that.
 | The parade moved out High street to | Elm down Elm to College, out College to Crown, down Crown to Temple, out | Temple to Chapel, and up Chapel to l Yale field. Every man in the parade wore white duck trousers with black
 stripe down the side and broad brim- med linen hat Hundreds of students
 who did not care to march in the street | followed along on the sidewalk and al- | together the crowd of students number l ed nearly one thousand, the largest | number seen together in New Haven l for many years As the procession
 neared the Hotel Majestic a large '39
 banner was thrown across the street | from an upper window of the hotel and
 called forth a prolonged cheer for '9S.
 Music was furnished for the parade by
 large fife and drum corps composed
 of students and the Old Guard band Of l this city.
 | As the crowd moved up Chapel street | the sidewalks were lined with specta- tors and the windows and piazzas along
 the street were filled with pretty girls
 watching the jolly boys. From the l piazza of the residence of Pierce N. | Welch, whose son is a sophomore, was
 hung a large blue '9S banner, and as
 the parade passed the long "Bek-Ke- | Ke-Kex'' cheer was given by hundreds
 of good strong voices.
 | As the crowd neared the field it was
 seen that the sophomores had already
 been there, as a large '9S flag, about
 fifteen feet long, was flying from the fag-pole of the grand stand. On reach 1 ing the field the sophs, supported by the seniors, took up their station at the
 left of the diamonds, while the fresh men, encouraged by the juniors, lined
 up on the right hand side. The troops l at once opened fire with the shotguns, | cannon crackers and the cannon.
 When the band began to play Cowan '9S and Scheftel '9S, the two sophs dress | ed as dashing females, with gallant
 partners started a waltz, much to the | amusement of the ladies in the grand | stand.
 | The game was rather closely contest ed, but there was no very brilliant playing and in many respects it was very slow. No very brilliant plays were made. Each class endeavored to rattle the pitcher of the opposing tes m, the sophomores by firing their guns as he was about to throw the ball and the freshmen by yelling and throwing the sun in his eyes with a mirror. The | latter scheme was however stopped by Umpire Trudeau '96. Everything went