The Washington herald., 1916-01-25
CAUSED BY OLD FEUD
Erstwhile Secretary Of Navy
Has Head Bumped on Pave
ment by Bold Challenger.
AND THEN THE NOSES. BLEED
Ringside officials Psr Combstsnts.
DR.. Cary Grayson Renders
First Aid.

Said Truxton Beale. diplomat aged 90
next March,. TO George Won Lenserk.
Meyer. Cabinet officer, retired, aged Is:
Sir, meet me outside"-and then u
started
Very shortly thereafter a distinguishes
diplomat might have been seen enthus-
isstically humping the head Of for
mer Secretary OF War on a street pave
ment about an ordinary stones throw
from the State. War and Navy Depart
ment Building-at the intersection Of
Seventeenth and H streets northwest, to
be geographically specific
When their eXtempOraneous seconds
two TO a rnan-hnalIy pried their princi-
pals apart and stood them on end. Mr..
Meyer had rapidly spreading clock"
| over one optic. Mr.. Besle WAS more or
less scratched Up about the head, and
both were bleeding at the nose.
No one knows how IL happened But
shortly before noon yesterday Messrs.
Beale and Meyer met. prior TO a lunch
con, at which Henry H. Ward was host
I
OF the National Security League. The
discussion which ensued did not relst.
directly to preparedness. OF least. not
at FIRST Friends declare o. concerned
an old New York club teud which Oh.
two men had been nursinS for years.
However that may be. LIZ. Besle sud
denly waxed truculent and invited Mr..
Meyer TO come outside In Justice 70
both. IT should be chronicied that the
former Cabinet officer beat the former
diplomat to the door and the siae~.lk
by a mustache.
] The scene was excellent ss far a.
gallery was concerned. but the show was
all too short 70 suit the night fans.
Marquis, OF Quesnsberry, rules were
honored rster in the breach than in the
observance. Reports were not invited.
but out of the tangle Of accounts. It
seems that Mr.. Beale swing heavily with
his right and missed, whereupon Mr..
Meyer planted a neat one on the pro
boscis Of his opponent tsht Immediately.
in the parlance OF the sporting writers.
''tsped the claret" Though slightly die
concerted, the diplomat came back strong
with a stin jsb to Mr.. Meyers right
eye, continuing the attack with swing
to the nose, which save him rather the
better OF the round. A clinch found Mr..
Meyer further at a disadvantage, and
WHEN the pair struck the pavement the
Cabinet minister was decidedly the
under dos"
While all this was going ont toos
less time than the reading-four members
Of the National Security League declared
for peace at any price. and, headed by
William Morrow and Henry ". Ward,
with Capt TempIin Potts, L. S y.
pIuckedD. waded into the melee and t.
stored order at the risk Of their clothes
and dignity.
DR.. Cary Grsyson. [. 5. y. the Presi-
dents personal aid. happened TO be pres
ent to administer FIRST aid TO the battered
warriors, after which Mr.. BesIe retired
from the scene, while Mr.. Meyer tsrriod
long enough to attend the luncheon be-
fore returning to his hotel for an eK-
ecutive session with a chunk OF raw
beef. Both men were out" to callers
last night.
New York. Jan. "A dispatch to the
New York Sun SAYS.
All of Washington was talking tonight
Of a fist fight which took place today be-
tween George Won L. Meyer, Of Boston.
former Secretary of the Navy. and Trux-
ton Beale Of this city who is a brctf---
in-law OF the Russian Ambassador
| II is understood that one word lCi 81
another Until the lie was passed an NJ
EesIe challenged the former Secrets y -
tie Navy TO step outside and settis H.
Mr. Never did 81, and the two wers 30
suoner on the sidewalk than they were at
each cthcr with their fists.
4 Neither would make any statemel. ~
night in regard to the affair. Mr.. MO-
/ friends said in his behalf, however. -
he had been attacked" That was the
only comment that was authorized.
Mr. Beale is a son OF Gen. George
4 Beals, one OF the famous California
forty-niners He Was United States Min
lister TO Persia, and also TO Greece. Reu-
mania. and Serbia at one time. He
member OF the Rnickerbocker and Uni