The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-11
FISTNGHT IN COLUMBIA GYM.
GRADUATE PUTS OUT HARVARD
. MAN AFTER A QUARREL.

Set o in the Grow Room while Bask etball
Game Was Going On-FOIi0wed the
Attack by q Visitor on q HOme Player
Victor an Athlete OF Five Years ago.
There was one incident in connection
with the Harvard Columbia basketball
game in the Columbia gymnasium last
Friday evening which did not figure In the
published accounts Of that contest. II was
reported that Quigley, a Harvard forward
struck Cuthell, a Columbia guard, 80 savage
a blow that the New Yorker was limp and
fiat for about eight minutes.
When this happened some Columbia men
connected with the team as coaches and
in other capacities started out on the floor.
Recalled to a sense Of where they were,
most Of them returned to their seats before
anything happened.
A Harvard student who accompanied
the team from Cambridge to see the game
sat near the side lines. Observing the
action OF. the Columbia men he made a
sneering remark aloud about Columbia
muckers.' Near him sat a Columbia ath-
lete who played baseball and football
about five years ago. The latter leaned
oNcI W tlIO LldlN oIa hAitii bihN WIN LAAiA thoN
1t would be better to keep such thoughts
to himself.
The Cambridge collegian; a big fellow,
looked the rather small Columbia man over,
and presumably came to the conclusion
that he could carry the thing through. He
thereupon called the New Yorker IN often.
sive name.
The Columbia man asked the Harvard
man to come down stairs with him to the
crew room alongside the swimming pool.
He added that the Cambridge man could
get any satisfaction he chose.
There was O short consultation between
the mar from New England and a few Of
his friends. 1t was agreed to take up
the offer. The belligerents trotted down
stairs to the crew room, and while the
basketball game went on above they pro-
ceeded to settle the dispute,
II was a fight with bare fists, with the
removal of coats as the only preliminary.
1t was agreed not to break up the affair
in rounds, but to go straight to a finish.
The Columbia mar had boxed in his college
days and had a fair reputation as a fighter.
He was a little smaller than his opponent
and a few pounds lighter. This he Offset
by his GOODNESS and generalship. On the
part Of the Bostonian 1t was a heavy pound
ing affair, while his rival shifted n side
stepped in approved style.
II took about seven minutes for the
local man to have his rival right. The Cam
bridge College man had both eyes discol-
ored and one ear pulled away out. He was
in distress from the fast going. The New
Yorker stepped away and let down his
guard. His rival put everything into one
last, rush. As he came on the Columbia
man crossed the right to the jaw and put
the Harvard man down to the cement
floor.
He lay there and took the full count.
The Columbia nan had only a few minor
scratches to show for the bout. 1t took
a few minutes to bring the visitor back
to full consciousness. His friends took him
away to a hotel, waiting until the crowd
thinned out so that the affair would not
attract attention. Where he was taken
and how long he stayed was kept quiet.
It is unlikely, according to the under
graduates at Columbia, that an investiga-
ton Of the affair will be made. The two
Columbia men in it were not undergraduates,
and consequently are not directly amenable
to faculty rulings.