The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-11-07
Those Smuggling Matches
Disgraceful Acts of Brutal Fighting
Among A. & M. Students
Black Eyes and Broken Noses Tell
the Tale-Seniors Adopt Resolu-
tons of Disapproval.

Raleigh News and Observer. Nov. list.
Broken noses, blackened eyes and
minor bruises are incidents in the Off
cially endorsed fights Ell masse in the
open at the 4. & NJ. College between the
freshman class and the sophomore class.
These free-for-al encounters,
countenanced by President Winston and
| the college, came as a result OF the desire
to put stop to hazing of any kind. Re
! Gently Cadet Hewlett, a new man, was
| badly handled and his head shaved by
| sorhOmores, presumably, and President
| Winston addressed the cadets about this
| affair in which he denounced the method
| Of the hazing OF one man by q number,
and commended an open, fair encounter
without amin osity; that it would be
much better for the boys to line up in
the old-fashioned way, and going at
each other to settle the matter, in place
OF a number skulking around in the dark
to do some act of meanness. In speaking
of the matter OF the first encounter he al
forwards stated that the juniors and
seniors were present to see that fair play
went on and that Commandant Young
was present to see that things did not
get too rough.
As the result OF President WinstOn's
talk the sophomores on Wednesday sent
O note to Commandant Young, signed
Ok. X. X, requesting him at dinner to
give notice to the freshmen that they
were invited to meet the sophOmOres
after dinner on the athletic field. The
sophom ores were there, the freshmen
came, and the contest waged vigorously
as line rushed into line, in the mix-up
legs and arms and heads and bodies get
ting all together, the struggling mass Of
young gentlemen raising the dust might
lily. Cheering the contestants were some
$50 cadets who looked on with shouts of
delight, while as each combatant had
his dose he cried enough and was out
of it,
Twice these class fights have taken
place, and at the second OF these yester-
day there were hundred and thirty
cadets engaged, sixty-five freshmen and
sixty-five sophomores The two oppos-
ing forces formed in lines on the A. & NJ.
athletic field and then rushed at each
other As they closed in there was in
discriminate fighting, jostling, punching,
a regular Denny brook Fairevent barring
the shillelahs, but fists were used freely.
After the first rush single encounters
went on, and when a man was down
Lieutenant Young or some Of the junior
and senior men, some Of whom were in
uniform, would rush in and stop the
on the ground.
Yesterday the challenge came from the
freshmen to the sOphOm ores for the sec
Ond encounter, in which I'M Ties were
the feature. In order to equalize the |
forces Lieutenant Young reduced the |
freshmen to So and there were 65 sopho- |
mores in line. The sOphs. were on the |
field when, with shouting and cheering |
and yelling, the freshmen charged in
force, the fray beginning at II minutes
TO 2. The opposing forces fought in O
cloud OF dust, and there was tumble after
tumble. The indiscriminate combat
soon changed to the man to man fight.
Jhe end coming at O'Clock, when the
BATTLE ceased and cheering over a drawn
light the forces left the field, some to
seek the attention of physicians and
others to themselves remedy bruises and
scratches
The fight in force yesterday lasted for
5welve minutes and was a hard fought
,np, though the cadets, injured and I'M
INJURED, emerged from it in good spirits
md with cheers, neither side having con-
luered, the contest being an even one
is one of the results the noses of two
men, Anthony, Of Shelby, and Wilson,
re broken, while there is report that
wo other noses are in the same shape.
While there are some black eyes and
cratched faces also in evidence The
manly art OF fighting in the open" has
rought with it injuries which are not
nioyed by the injured, but the men who
id the scrapping did so of their own &C
ord, and some of them are in the hos
itai as a. result