Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
STUDENTS REVEL
AFTER BIG GAME
Nearly a Hundred College
Boys and Friends Nabbed
by Police.
GIRLS JOIN CELEBRATION
AND AID IN ONE FIGHT
New Excise Law Shattered Beyond
Recognition Despite Activity
of Officers.

d d uiploild-dilu as lar as the stern and
unsympathetic police were concerned /,
didn't make a bit of difference whether
the arm band was on bona fide collie
sian or a night school student The
amount of collateral was just the same,
$40 for a riotous souse and So added If the
riot went beyond the bounds of the ordi-
nary. Old-time observers of college foot
ball celebrations In this town are Of the
opinion that last nights revel was a clas-
sic in its way, but limited to one or two
localities.
The observer who watched the patrol
wagon rush eight times to the same
lquorlng place to carry away protesting
young men who swore they We're abso-
lutely sober, or who claimed influence
of all kinds from relatives in Tammany
Hall to friends on either OF the foot
ball teams, which caused all this dis
turtance, saw that the newly framed
excise law was shattered beyond recogni-
ton.
Law Battered to Pulp.
The law was battered to a helpless,
hopeless, unrecognizable pulp. It's rath-
er hard to judge whether chap is
twenty years old or twenty-one-but by
the same token it's not a bit hard to
-year-old "collegian' whose only
claim on an alma mater is daily trans
fer on the street car lines running to-
ward Georgetown.
The Virginia outfit, which came here
with high hopes of a victory. spent a
quiet evening at the Columbia Theater,
and the GEORGETOWN team spent less
quiet evening at downtown hotel That
disposes of the heroes of the occasion.
They behaved as heroes should. But
their supporters-Good-ni
Police Work Overtime.
In the first place. the police worked
overtime gathering up nearly a hundred
young drunks, who had to put UP $40
or sleep in a cell till tomorrow
Some of them wore college bands, but
few of them had that clearness of die
tion which comes from either a classic or
scientific course in any of the universi-
ties of this fair land. Capt Hollinberger
or the first precinct kept his day men on
duty just for the purpose of enforcing the
new law which makes it necessary for
man TO be able to walk chalk line
without wavering. In front of one thirst
parlor line of police waited until mid
night. when the lights were made dim
and about twenty fine drunks spilled out
ward toward the curb.
The police determined to wait there
until morning, if necessary to catch that
gorgeous aggregation of tottering souses,
and one of them declared the police de-
partment would burn up all the gasoline
in town in one grand effort to show the
majesty OF the law It's a fine thing
for the old-time horses that motor patrol
wagons have taken their places. Last
nights efforts would have strained all
the equines in the service
Boys and Girls Drunk.
In one hotel boys and girls got drunk to
celebrate foot ball victory. The riot
started early In the evening. The drink
ing rooms OF the placeewere crowded by
s o'clock and mobs fought for possession
of the tables Police interfered now and
then when things grew too hot for the
hard working walters to handle. and the
election of drunk was monumental af-
fair, as two policemen had to battle with
upward of twenty alleged collegiates be-
fore they could haul the protest ng person
to the box. No one seemed to care for
the excise law in that particular place
Occasionally the smash of bottles and
glasses and the bang of the tray upon a
marble floor was evidence that some
poor waiter had run afoul of a bevy OF
yelping youths with a bundle of beer
aboard. waiter who dared protest ran
great danger of his personal safety AL
together, this particular hosiery turned
into a four-hour rough house, as they
say in Texas And yet the boys and
girls who stayed seemed to like it.
Big Row OF Evening.
The biggest row of the evening occurred
when about twenty youths in loud cloth
ing endeavored to rescue a small and
active man from the hands of the police.
The small one was wonderfully drunk
and in a fighting humor. He was about
as large as a six-year-old child but he
had a terrific punch; also terrific load
OF liquor. Through the overcrowded cor
ridors he reeled with friends and foes
in swarming time And young girls, some
of them surely not over eighteen We're
in that crowd of fighters, adding their
soprano laughter to the vile curses of
the men. 1t took about twenty minutes
TO clear out the mob and get this under
sized person TO the patrol wagon
He had a college band upon his arm,
and protested that he was a senator's 5
secretary and would have the Constitu-
tion invoked. However, he slept in cell
until an early hour today. A year ago
the police might have turned him loose
but this year a new excise law is in eff
feet
town was turned into an orgy. Not at
all. The celebration was limited in it's
scope, but it was warm and exciting
where it held full sway.
One Punches Detective.
Two youths who gave their names as
John Breun and Lucien Gray got into
an argument with Detective Baur during
the progress of the foot ball game yes
terday afternoon. and one of the lads
Is said to have punched Baur. imme-
diately claiming that he was iokirfg.
Baur was unable to see il that way He
arrested them. Breun's collateral was
placed at Il hundred dollars, and later.
through the intercession of friends, il
was reduced to $50.
One downtown saloonkeeper ran no
chances. He pulled down his curtains
and stationed a guard al the door ANY
one who wanted TO get 4 drink in that
place had to assure the sentinel that he
the applicant. was perfectly sober
Can you walk straight the sentinel
asked of a Star reporter who was in
vestigating the celebration
Just watch and the reporter walked
the straightest crack on F street
Let this gentleman in He's O. k
yelled the sentinel.
All. it's grand thing to be young
and wear a foot ball band.