Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-24
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Victor, Nov. 23.--1n Dumont one day
las { week the writer was told tina. liv-
ms there was the spectator" OF the
foot ball game at Hampton whose leg
4 was broken by the high school students.
| DE will only be laid up two or three
months. In another near by town lives
the other spectator whose arm was
broken at the same time and place. He
will only lose three months use of his
arm. And yet there are captious crit
les who want to change the game of
foot ball as at present played because
of little things like those mentioned
above. Iowa is playing great bali this
year, nevertheless we are not up 10 the
times. Why don't we have some cane
rushes A special to the chicago
Tribune, dated November 10, says that
Harry G. Moore, aged 10 years, Of
Rochester,, N. ", a freshman in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
was killed this afternoon on the south
end bail grounds in a cane rush.
The freshmen and ophomores of the
tstrNtNuSloil tSS!uSis some time ago 10 lN-
augurate a series of cane rusnes for
Their own and future classes to partici-
pate in. The first one was held today
on the ball grounds. following the an
nual foot ball game between the fresh
men and sophomores. Two hundred
students We're lined UP on each side for
the rush.
The freshmen had the cane at the
start They formed a solid circle with
the cane in the center, and with two
small groups of students in front ! o act
las interference. The sophomores
formed themselves into two solid
Wedges pointed toward the freshmen
and at the crack OF a pistol the wedges
swept down upon the circle. The rush
| was last fifteen minutes. at the end
of wlelch time the class having most
hands on the cane should be declared
the winner.
When the two wedges struck the
I5circle. having literally run over9the two
groups OF interfegers, the hundreds of
spectators in the grand stand rose in
alarm. The 400 students. mostly III
foot bail toys, heaved andstugged.
The rush lasted for the full fifteen
minutes Then al the crack of the pis-
tol. every student stopped short and the.
mass slowly melted apart. On the,
ground lay young Moore. trodden under
foot and stamped upon until he was all
most unrecognizable. He was uEcon-s
scious and was bleeding from nose,
mouth and ears. Where a minute be-
fore there had been 400 boys struggling
for the possession Of a knobbed. stick.
there We're 500 hands eager to lift their
MANNED companion up out OF the mud
and sooth him back to life. The doctor,
who was in attendance in anticipation
of injury TO some student, hastily did
what he could for Moore, but he was!
beyond human aid. The ambulance.
which came in response to a hurry call,
had not reached the hospital when the
youth breathed his last.
Moore was fire young fellow and
an athlete. Today he played al center
for the freshmen foot ball eleven
That's something like fun. a a game
OF foot bail the writer witnessed only
five students We're m ore or less injured.
for life. The effeta east Kills its stu
dents. Still some parts of he west are
doing fairly Well. Out in Omaha the
medical and dental stundents of the.
Omaha Medical College met in a strug-
gle which resulted in the serious injury
of Dale Woods, son of DIR. Woods. of
Schuyler, and Joe Mccain. Woods
was thrown down a flight of stains, his
head striking on projecting wood work
He is still unconscious and may die
Mccain received severe scalp wounds
| but his injuries are not serious Many
others were bruised and roughly han
/ died. Each year the college has been
j the scene of a bitter rivalry between
/ the two departments as 10 which should
/ occupy the choice seats in the main
lecture room. A preliminary scufne oc-
Cured Al the opening session, in which
the dents We're outnumbered and
| worsted. They arrived the next Gay in
4 a body and made flying charge upon
1.-the lnedics. regardless of the lecture in
4 progress The fight waged for an hour
/ and was transferred to the hail and
| Staircase where the casualties occurred
The arrival of squad of police put ar,
! end to the conflict.
Those Omaha policemen evidently
! are back numbers To Interfere Hith a
/ little sport like this, but had the good
sense not TO make any arrests. Parents
l5in&sslecting colleges for educating their
Il sun 8siioGlN IIidhEo IlOlei OF tHSSs occur
| rences. Such cane rushes and manly
struggles for seats fit young man for
contact with the rough places in life.
Over a year ago there appeared In
4 this column an account of what the
4 Looker-On saw in GONE of our county
/ poor houses. 1t was promptly taken up
/ as a bit of sensational writing and, one
editor of country weekly advised the
writer to attend to matters at home,
the Inference being that said editor was
capable of running his paper. his post
/ Office and his county poor house. This
4 gentleman ard others who saw no need
i OF a chang in the management IF the
/ county poor house and care of the
i county insane in Iowa are invited TO
read the following special sent from
4 Des Moines last week:
The state board of control has for
4 mulated a set of rules for the govern
ment Of county Institutions whore in
sane are kept and the rules viii become
4 effective a rnoe. The last Legislature
upon hearing a report Of a special In
A YES tigation committee, in which the
manner of caring for the insane In
county Institutions Was citicised,
passed law placing all these institu.
III fars ta3 ;ctn