The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-24
1900 WINS THE WRESTLING
THE CONTESTS AT HOPKINS GRAM- MAR SCHOOL For LAST EVENING.

Noisy Crowd of 1000 Students Enjoyed
 the Fun-Freshmen Wrestlers Win Each
 of the Three Bouts-The Class Yell of
 Freshmen-A Rush at York and Chapel
 Streets --Honors for Timid Freshies.
 The class of 1900 last evening made a glorious debut into Yale life by win ming easily the freshman sophomore wrestling contest held on Hopkins grammar school lot By o'clock a. crowd of fully 1000 people. composed in great part of students, had assem- bled at the Grammar school lot, the seniors carrying torches and exercising superintendancy over the contests of the evening. The Edgewood fife and drum corps of Westvile had been en- gagged for the occasion, and helped to
 swell the din which cracked the air on
 all sides. At. the rear end of the lot were grouped those freshmen who had turned out in spite of their fearlessness that some naughty. boisterous sopho-
 more would bounce upon them and
 carry them to that dungeon of terror, to freshmen, a hazing place.
 l A large ring was formed, on the in-
 side being the seniors with their torch
 es to light up the scene. Around the
 outside of the ring were grouped the various classes with here and there a sober, dignified looking face of some
 mighty alumnus of 96 gazing with tol- eration on the juvenile sport. After l the circle had been formed the tall fig
 ure of ex-Football Captain Brink | Thorne hove in sight. He made for the | freshman side of the ring, and the freshies having learned his identity
 quickly opened way for him to get
 to the inner part of the circle, gazing
 on him with awe as he passed.
 | The lightweight wrestlers were first called out. E. F. Parks of Westfield, Mass, responded for the sophomores,
 and Bartlett of Evansville Ill, for the | freshies. There had been some conjec- ture as to what the class yell of the freshmen would be on this occasion, but up to this tim they had not dared | to yell. Having been urged by the jun 1 iors, however, they were soon turned up and their yell was '1900, 1900, 1900" repeated rather slowly three times. In | the lightweight bout Bartlett won the first round, and the other two were declared draws, the freshman thereby winning the bout.
 | Edgar Atlxin of New York city was called out as the sophomore middle
 weight and Symond of the class of 1900 for the freshmen. Symond won two straight rounds and was declared vic- l tor. In the heavyweight bout F. G.. Beck of New Haven upheld the honor ] of 99, while MT. Jack of the freshmen I class came out for 1900. Jack won the | first and third rounds, thereby winning l the bout and clinching a good victory I for the freshmen.
 1 At the close of the wrestling the 1 seniors with their torches and the fife ! and drum corps headed a procession l which marched out High street to Elm, l to College to Osborn hall corner. In 1 front of osborn hall an attempt was 1 made to cheer the winners of the
 wrestling, but the crowd was too much
 occupied in playing football with the I LOIcT6S lO GuGeE Wllll dHy tIeB uldilty.
 After a short halt at Osborn hall corr her the freshmen started up the middle | of Chapel street in solid phalanx, the I same time marching on the sidewalk. | At the corner of York and Chapel
 streets the two parties came together 1 with a crash and for a minute an old- | fashioned rush was in progress but
 was stopped by upper classmen. A 1 negro banjo player was caught in the
 melee and after the mass of legs and arms was disentangled discovered that
 while he was yet alive his hat was not what it had been while his coat was a
 string of rags and his banjo in de-
 crepit condition. He declared that
 "the stujents is mighty pestiferous lot.
 By this time a number Jf freshmen
 had been spotted by sophomores as
 good candidates for the process former
 ly known as hazing, and the crowds
 scattered, the center of each crowd be-
 ing a freshman going to his initiation.