The evening world., 1911-06-10
IS YALE YOUTHS
IN FLYING WEDGE
BATTLE At C0NEy
Free Fight Starts When They
Demand an Explanation OF
Election from Luna Park.
ONE GETS NOSE BROKEN
SAYS He Is Son of Former Cor
poration Counsel and Wants
Warrant and Secrecy.
ONE GETS NOSE BROKEN

Surf avenue was about 10 shut up
for the nigh, at $40 O'Clock this morn
ing. when fifteen youths with tempera-
mental haberdashery formed a hylns
wedg. for the stree, with a lot OF concS
Island huskles close on their tran
Football tactics were seemingly Tor
gotten In their eagerness TO get our OF
the neighborhod intact. II was a home
run AFFAIR, or might have been u the
stslwart young chaps hadn't been over
AIKEN by some OF their pursuers ana
given battle in the middle o, me
street.
II was lively while Il, lasted. Noses
were punched. eyes were blackenen'
and the latest designs In neckwcar ana
hesdgear few about In unrestrained pro-
fusion. wild cries snote the air and
&, was thought that amid them could
BE- heard the Yale college yell. but IL
was not n shout Of victory. The 'Heg'
Rube!' had don't Its work. and IL was
q saa cortege thai wended Its way TO
the consy Island police station as soon
az the brave fifteen could collect theh-
sci, es. The main battle was at SURF
av,nue and West Tenth street
one battered young bellig-rent had a
A alp wound, decorations OF the face, n
his nose had been so altered as TO IN
cuce the Coney Island hospital sur
geon who dressed 1t to believe II ~
broken. His sar:orial splendor had
vanished and he was mad about 1t ALI
WENT BACK TO LUNA PARK FOR
EXPLANATION.
The police ray he described himself
a. Ed Bayard Rives OF East seventy
ninth street. Manhattan. a son OF a Tor
m,er Corporation Counsel. h YOUNG
man said ne ana his fourteen COM
psnions were Yale students. V +,
some had been witnessing the polo
match, some were stopping over on
thslr way to see the Yale Princeton
baseball game and others Just came
rnsy had a basket party" n de-
cided to 60 10 Coney Island.
In Luna Park, the young man de-
elared, they were elected quite early
In the evening. They had done abso-
iutsiy nothing. not even the gentle little
things that college boys usually do
when they so out for a good time.
There was another crowd that was
cutie boisterous. out never = peer from
II grieved them very much to be put
out. but they went to other attractions
on island. Before going home 1;
wa unanimously decided that they Rc
back to Luna Park. which was closed
and demand an explanation Of wins
they had been ousted They went back
- ... H-- VAeelnu
ready to 90 home.
Ne explanation was forthcoming. Blu
In q short time something happened II
the middle Of the street that .loked Tx
free-for-an night. Brawny men from
places along the line rushed out an.
Joined In the fray. and the football snt
baseball stars didn't rave q chance.
While many eyes were darkened ii
youth calling himself Rives was tn
only one hurt badly enough &c nece1i
tate q doctor.
Rives WANTED A WARP. III
AND SECRECY.
lie told Lieut.. Conboy he wanted
warrant for his assailart and WAS tolt
TO come back to-day. He was yer!
anxious that news Of the AFFAIR be sup
pressed. saying he was willing to pa!
any amount In reason TO keep q recor,
OF Il on the blotter. lie seemed great
y peeved whea Told 1t would have t
20 on the blotter. and that the blotts
WAS available TO new spaper men.
While the doctor was patching him u
HE college friends sat or the steps out
side and smoked cigarettes or lolle
around inside to watch the surgeon wit
his little needle and thread. They a
said they could identify the man VIII
dSfigured young Rives. Two OF thei
gave their names as Reginald Room'
Ne. ii East Fifty-seventh street an
James 4. Williams. Tarytown.
Manager Fred McClelland Of Lun
Park said that a crowd got boisterou
during the evening and was ordere
on the grounds. as the managemer
viii not stand for that kim Of bus
moss. He said he didn't know VIII
they were or whether they were frol
Yale, but 1t wouldn't have made an
difference. a. improper conduct Is n,
tolerated from any one. lie said /
understood somebody came back lat,
land tried TO get In after the place hs
been closed for the night but hat en-