Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-19
NORWICH BOYS IN
 "sT. PATRlck's SCRAP
Several Figured Prominently In An.
 ffuaI Event at Trinity.

The annual St. Patricks scrap was held at Trinity College, Sunday and
 was one of the best in years. A large proportion of the heros of the fight
 were local boys. Seymour S. Jackson.
 Robert F. O'Hearn, Austin A. King and Frank F. ,Murthas Jr., were towers of strength for the sophomores who won the fight, while Harold F. Slattery the only freshman to pierce the sopl1o- more line graduated from the Acad- emy last June, being captain in the military battalion there In speaking of the fight the Hart 1 ford Courant said:
 Jackson. Casey, O'Hearn and Mur- tha, Keney and Hohenthal were re- sponsible for the victory of the sopho- : l n1ores over the freshmen in the St.
 Patrick's Day scrap at Trinity Col lege yesterday morning.
 The fight, one of the best ever staged on the campus of Trinity Col lege, came at 7;30 o'clock in the morning. The freshmen had estab- l lished headquarters in downtown hotel
 unmolested by the sophomores, who l stayed in the rooms of the college
 union. The sophomores slept while l the freshmen were busy clustering the town with their class numerals. One 1 capture was effected by the freshmen, 1 who succeeded in handcuffiing L. L. 1 Hohenthal of South Manchester. He 1 was confined in the hotel handcuffed 1 and chained to bed. He waited. In the early morning hours the freshmen starting on their march to college left fhim in, this condition, and gave in- l structions to the fotelkeeper to release him after 8 o'clock. He shattered the 1 bed and found an officer willing to re- [ f11a the aid of a taxieab he succeeded ir | reaching the campus of Trinity Col lege long before his one time captors had.
 i The freshmen found the sopho. 1 nores surrounding the designated tree from which the freshmen would have
 to keep their banner afloat for ten con. 1 secutive minutes if the scrap was tt be theirs. Seymour Scott Jackson o
 Norwich was the leader of the sopho more class in their defense of th. f tree, for twenty minutes Jackson stoot
 in front of the line battering down in
 nuratrabie assaults made by the fresh
 men. Only one freshman sueeeede, in getting past the defense that Jack
 son and his cohorts had established This was Harold T. Slatttry, a fellov
 townsnan of Jackson. But Slattery'
 success in getting on the tree was 0 Il no importance for it was soon realize, by the sophomores that he was no
 one of the two banner bearers. How
 ever, sophomore, Robert G. Bruc : l of Berlin, soon climbed the tree an 8 fight between Bruce and Slattery i the branches of the tree followed } Neither succeeded in dislodging tn other one from the tree, as their f1gh continued during the next fifteen min : utes.
 : King, Casey, Murtha, O'Iearn an Hol1enthal were kept busy furling tn : freshmen to the ground as they dres
 near to the tree, while Jackson batti
 ed with those who escaped the clutch
 es of Jackson's l1enchmen. The presi ol dents of both classes: Donald E. Puf $ fer of Waterbury, sophomore an
 Phillips s. Ramsey of olaremor
 Junction, N. H., freshmen, engage i in fight at the very outset all : fought each other until the end of tn { | scrap. %
 This marks the second victory fc
 the class of 1920. As freshmen, the l | defeated the class of 1919 and I1o' : they have proved themselves the con e auorors of the class of 1921.