Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-11
.FRESRIES SCORED
ON BY The SCPHS
Latter Hold Banquet at Mon
mouth, Having as Guest
Rival President.

Augustana sophomores scored {
great strategic victory over the fresh
men yesterday. Not only did the
sophs hold their annual class banquet
at Monmouth. 90 miles away. but they
also forced the freshmen president
Knute Erickson TO grace their feast
by his presence. BY a queer coinci
dance. the freshmen also held their
banquet last night, but the Colonial
! hotel in Rock Island was the scene OF
much gloom, with their president miss
ing and in the hands of the hated
sophs-
BY a strange turn of fate, the sophs
I narrowly escaped being the Inundated
class. The freshmen had evidently got
wind of the sophs' banquet plans, but
/ they guessed one day too soon. Early
Tuesday morning the freshies began
rounding up sophomores, under the
/ impression that the big feed" was TO
| be held that night. Four men were
taken prisoners and held captive until
late Tuesday night when it became evil
dent that no sOph banquet would be
/ held.
The sophs, meanwhile, were des-
perate. Fearing that the freshmen
would repeat their attack again on
Wednesday. the real day of the feast,
they determined on bold counter at
tack. After their own men had been
released late Tuesday night. they
divided into three groups and began to
round up freshmen. BY midnight they
had succeeded in capturing five fresh
men, each being whisked away in a
taxicab to a cottage on Campbell's is
land. The five captives were Arthur
Benson. Elmer Benson. Harold Lund-
gren. Emil Johnson and Joe Youngs-
strom.
The sophs, however, were not salts
fed. Early yesterday morning one of
the scouting parties saw Knute Erick-
son. whom they suspected was presi-
dent of the freshmen class. enter a
restaurant on Seventh avenue AS he
was finishing a cup of coffee, he was
seized and bound after a hard fight in
which a show case was broken.
Erickson was also rushed to Camp
bells island in a taxi.
At noon yesterday all the sophomore
men had gathered at Campbell's island
with the six freshmen prisoners. At
that hour il was decided to make the
start for Monmouth. Taking two of
The freshmen prisoners with them,
Erickson and Youngstown, they left
the other four tied hands and feet in
the cottage. When East Moline was
reached, they liberated Youngstrom in
order that he might return to Camp
bells island and release his class /
mates. Erickson, however, was
brought along.
When the sophomores passed I
through Rock Island on Third ave I.
nue. car, party of three freshies dis /
covered them. One OF them, Arthur
OldstrCm. boarded the car and was
Immediately seized. The other TWO
spread the alarm among the freshme.
md q party OF 30 started in pursuit OF
he sophs The latter had barely
boarded a Rock Island Southern spec
al car when the freshmen rescue
,arty arrived. Although the car was
lot ready to start. the doors were
ocked AMI the freshmen We're forced
o ,ook on, helpless to rescue their
resident.
One sophomore, J. r. Johnson, had
cen left behind, being engaged in hav-
ne menu cards printed in Davenport.
When he reached the interurban car in {
taxi and finding it surrounded by
reshies. he directed the chauffeur to
rive TO Milan, where he succeeded in
citing aboard the Special unmoIes-t
d. and the sophomore class was
omplete. One of the freshmen pris- !
ners, Oldstrom, was released when /
Ionmouth was reached and given car
ire to return to Rock Island Knute
rickson, the freshmen president, was d
stained a prisoner, however. and as z
s.ed in presiding at the banquet. I
rickson took his fate good-naturedly Il
nd delivered a humorous speech to o
Is captors Paul Hut, president of the a
lhomores, was the POSTMASTER. Il