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ton. But Walker refused to let any one
fight Sutton except himself.
Sutton's Stock Takes a Drop.

Sutton's Stock Takes a Drop.
1.-THE fight came off. 1t was hard and
a bloody contest. for the middies never
do ANYTHING by halves. In such a fight
Branch was killed.
cat the end of the fourteenth round
Walker caught Sutton on the jaw and
knocked him out. Sutton's reputation as
a fighter took slight drop, but still he
was known as nervy though hot-headed
sort OF a man.
Sutton was peculiar sort-I think
melodramatic expresses 1t: If you knew
him we'll you liked him, though, and MS
nerve wasn't doubted.
"He sometimes had a fight in the aft
ernoon and employed the evening in writ
ing verses. He was always deficient In
modern langua ges. but not because he
was wooden for he always managed to
real test.
..The 'dago' department. though least
important of all, has always been one OF
thes hardest to get a good mark out oil,
because the 'profs' are not only civilians,
but foreigners and are treated with scant
respect by the midshipmen and return
scant marks. So when June came Jimmy
Sutton was 'bilged' and left the acad-
envy.
The Eternal Feud.
Now. let it be known here that between
the midshipmen and the young marine
officers there exists but little fraternal
regard-as far as the midshipmen are
concerned.
Most marine officers are civilian ap-
pointees. with no military training. and
are appointed after an examination in
which the highest subject is plane tr1go-
nometry. These appointees outrank
midshipman and rate salute from him
according to regulations.
At the Naval Academy the naval cadets
undergo what is the hardest and most
rigid technical course in the United
States, If not in the world, when age of
students is considered. And so under
this system the man who has worked
night and day sthiven and studied for.
say, three years, has TO salute and be
Junior to marine lieutenant appointed
yesterday from cit life.
Here lies half the mystery of the SUIT
ton case For there was hatred in
yoIyed in it that grew out of this old and
bitter feeling.
Sutton Becomes a Marine.
Sutton now being thrown upon the world
along with Rocker, Ludlow and Utley,
other former midshipmen, resolved to GO
into the Marine Corps. Although they
shared the common prejudice against the
corps while midshipmen. they shook it
off when completely out of the service.
But it is not unlikely that Sutton, al
though wearing the uniform of a lieuten-
ant of marines, still had present in his
heart part of the old prejudice against
his brother officers who came from the
ranks of 1.-The cit as all those out of the
service were called by the midshipmen.
Sutton passed his examinations and
came to the School of Application at An
napolis It should be understood that
this school is distinct from the Naval
Academy. in spite of the many mislead-
ing statements in which they are regard
ed as one.
1t did not sound very peculiar, then.
to those who know the ms and outs of
Annapolis life to hear Adams. a brother
officer Of Sutton. testify Monday before
the board of investigation that Sutton
had prosecuted him in petty ways, had
once stationed him almost under the
muzzle of the field piece at artillery drill.
and had at another time grufiy relieved
him of command of company while all
the enlisted men heard. Adams had never
heen a n1idshipman, the closest he came
was to funk on an entrance examination.
Here. then. we have part of the mystery
cleared and see how the feeling between
Adams and Sutton became SO bitter. Now
we know why Annapolitans shake their
heads when investigation is talked of.
And we'll they may, for where is the
court that impeded by the pomp of a
court ma rtial. depending on routine evil
dence, can unravel this strand of a
thousand cords. linked by ten thousand
Gordian knots tied by the hands of an
cient hatreds and customs?
Life at the Barracks.
fhe crowd of student officers. with
Sutton, at the barracks was typical
About one-half were .bilgers' from the