The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-02

gan to think things were going too slowly and so marshalling their forces with the fife and drum corps at their head they marched to the freshmen side of the field guying the freshmen and yelling for '9S.
 | As they neared the freshmen pha- lanXes one bold freshman seized one of | the big Soph. hats and made dash | across the field. He was followed closely by a yelling mob and soon the | side lines were deserted, the entire crowd having forsallen the game for the more interesting scrap, which was | eminent Soon hundreds of students of l the two classes were mingled in push ing mass of hundreds, from which the yelling and noise was like pandeuon- ium, This scrap was finally ended. Lut it was only for short time, as the freshmen next tried to capture the ."9S battery" that is, the goat which the | sophomores led. Then the rush was renewed with the result that '99 cap- tured the goat, which was Immediately recaptured by '9S. From this time on until the close of the game there were scraps and rushes every few minutes, clothes being torn and limbs bruised. Every one was, however, in good hu- mor and despite the many hot scrim- images very little i'll feeling was evi- denced, every one taking his bruising in good part These scraps delayed | the game, as the crowds swarmed over the field, making ball playing out of the question, The game was finally called at the close of the sixth in ming with the score 4 to 3 in favor of the freshmen.
 | Just before the game closed the fresh men made an attempt to capture the 1 old coach of the sophomores and start- ed across the field in a body after it. The driver, however, saw them first and whipping up his horse he dashed away just ahead of the yelling mob out of the gate and down Chapel street,
 making good his escape.
 At the close of the game the sopho-
 mores lined up in fine shape to march from the field, but their plans were somewhat upset as the freshmen seeing
 a chance here as they thought to have
 some fun darted ahead and locked the
 big entrance gate For time it look d ed as if the Sophs. were fairly trapped.
 but they soon formed solid phalanx
 with locked arms and dashed against the gate, which crashed through. As they came through daring freshman snatched one of the big sophomore hats
 and started on a run down across the
 meadow along West river He was hotly pursued and to evade capture jumped into a small but deep and
 muddy ditch. He wore white ducks and as he emerged from the ditch he
 was sight, being covered to his waist
 with black mud. which dimmed the glory of his white trousers. He was finally captured and the hat taken from him, so that the coveted souvenir will not adorn his room, as he intended. Just below the bridge over West river on the right hand side of the street was a. large board sign, one of the sort so numerous about the sub urbs and on this was painted in large blue letters an inscription consigning '9S to very warm place, to which Yale has recently been likened This reused the sophomores to further eff
 forts and rushing to the large sign
 which was about ten feet high by six
 teen long, they soon demolished to
 kindling wood.
 l A llIlle Idl tlltl pll et llSSlltlthi pcttiN ed car on which were riding crowd iof sophomores. The innocent looking freshman stood on the side step of the open car very unconcernedly when sud- denly when the car was going rapidly
 he snatched sophomore hat and as quickly jumped to the ground. He
 was followed by the owner of the hat
 with a crowd of friends. A large ldm-
 Der of freshmen were also nearby and
 the two parties were soon engaged in a rough and tumble melee. Back and forth the mass of struggling arms and legs swayed, much to the alarm of sev-
 eral ladies on a piazza near by. The sophomores finally overpoWered the
 freshmen and the hat was regained by it's owner This was the last scrap of the afternoon and the students during
 the rest of the way down to the cam
 pus contented themselves with singing
 college songs and cheering.
 The next game in the interclass series
 will be played between teams of '96 and '97. The date has not yet been arrang-
 ed.