The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-04
A BLOODY FIGHT.
Freshmen and SOphomOres
Clash at Lake Forest.
Girls In Both Glasses Join In
the Fray.
1T LASTS TWO HOURS.
Young Men Punch Heads and
Batter Faces.
Their Sisters Pull Hair,
Scratch and Bite.
T LASTS TWO HOURS,

Chicago, Oct 4-Freshmen and
sOphomores cIashed in a bloody bat
tie at Lake Forest university yesterday
afternoon. Four score undergraduates
many of whom were girls. punched
heads, scra tched faces and pulled hair
and when the two hours engagement
ended, battered countenances and ach-
ing bones told the story of the bitterest
class fight the Presbyterian college has
ever known
Among the injured are:
John Biggs, sophomore; head bruised
and cut; taken from the scene uneon-
sciOus.
Henry McCarter. president of fresh
man class and left tackle on varsity
football team; face bruises.
STORM THE CITADEL
The field of hOStilitieS was the rooms
of the French department in College
hall, where the freshman class had as
sembled at 4 o'clock for a secret ses-
SION Seventeen boys and thirty-One
girls were in attendance The meeting
had been called for few minutes, when
loud pounding on the oak doors leading
into the corridor warned the freshmen
of impending trouble. Then three burly
sOphOmOreS at the head of thirty-one OF
their fellows, including twelve girls,
thirsting for their annual class fracas,
hurled themselves against the doors
from without, burst them from their
hinges and dashed into the room
4 ne freshmen maze STUBBORN QGI6HSe-
The girls exceeded the number of their
sex in the attacking party and had no
trouble in OverpOwering the sophomore
daughters after ten minutes vigorous
action, during which .Pysche knots, .
pOmpadOurS and silk collars were torn
from their mOOringS-
The young men INDUCED in football
and Queensberry tactics and bloody
noses and black eyes came thick and
fast. Freshman McCarter had enough
skin scratched from his face to graft
several OF his classmates. and SOphO-
more Biggs, a young DakOtan, had his
head pinner to the floor until he was
pummeled into uncOnsciOusness
During the melee, freshman girl,
whose brother was seeing stars, rushed
from the scene to the Alice DuTand hos
pital and returned at double quick with
a nurse for her fighting protector. In
the midst of the excitement the steam
fittings against the wall were 1oOsened,
recitation chairs screwed to the floor
were torn up and window panes were
broken.
FRESHMEN ARE VANOUISHED.
After two hours fighting the fresh
men were overcome and driven from
the scene, which the sOphomores left in
triumph. A few minutes later the girls
in the defeated party returned, and.
pulling the boys through the windows
from the lawn outside, the class, with
all the enthusiasm its sorry condition
would permit, again took the fort
But the ''SOphs' were back instantly
to renew hostihties and another con-
f1ict was only avoided by the arrival of
seniors and juniors, who carried the
role of peaCemakers- Among the Soph-
omores who upheld the honor of their
class were Clifford Williams, leader of
last years Glee club; Esmond Banta.
manager of the Lake Forest football
team; Victor YeOmans, Ralph Baldwin.
c. K Elden and Charles Ross Alfred
Lathrop, T. Paumbaugh and Henry Nc
Carter were prominent in the freshman
ranks.