New Britain herald., 1927-03-22
CLASS RIVALRY
 MAY COST LIFE
Nine Arrests, Many Hurt in
 Johns Hopkins Outbreak

Annapolis. Nd. March 2 Gr - Narylands s'ai4 and ancient capI- t7l was recovering its composure today after witnessing Eapracedent- ea transformation or usually aus .ere State House circle into vol ra-o ot exu6a~art 1ruru!erce hy aare 8 thousand battle hungry Johns Hopkins university under elazsmen.
 \ freshman clasz dinner. erenyu- ally eaten against yehemeHt'y eN- pressed sophomore wishes but .l a Huiltny sans window Tanas and door panels. and under pro'ee.io" af eight lines 0. high pressure fir. hose, was the ea-sa.
 One student seriously lrtE7si -Four others known to have ra- ,.ived hospital CT medical treat -nent. 2 score nursing swollen heads. black cya=, sprains and bruises. nine n 1au and 2 national guard armory badly battered, is the officially tabulatel result
 Bernard Erark of Baltimore srt- cred a possibly fractured si,H'l rom q blow from a poiic-maa's night stick. A Annapolis Emereency aospi,al he renamed unconscious sor several hours alter the battle rad waned. and physicians feared that 1T complications arose his in- lry nigh prove fatal,
 John Gra.sou Tar1bun of Tow eor. Nd. and Gladstone Beaden- hon oY Baltimore also went 10 the .ozpita1 with heads bnueraa from co7tac, with police h5liies. Turn5uH mas released at bis own request but police took him in custody on the hospital steps. Erwin K Gordon Of . Baltimore suffered head and neck injuries when he was flung from ,na top Of flight or stairs, and Baldwin Street, Baltimore, broke lis arm in 2 leap from an arnory window
 The nine under arrest on charges o' entering and destroying stat property. malicious mischief and netting riot included Joseph Rich IrdSon CT lAlSG, ph4A.
 The Johns Hopkins freshmen, zl5 strong. their destination pre- eumabiv secret. left Baltimore vas terdgy evening. Hardly had they Hoated themselves around their din- rer tables in the Annapolis nation al guard armory when l75 sopho- rqores descended on the building with 8 Ehoop that rattled the win lows Of the executive mansion and gave pause 10 the Maryland gen. eral assembly in ths state house a few hundred feet away. Fifty of the attackers reached the interior in the rush. taking window panes and floor panels with them. The dining hall reeled under a harrage of crockory and table ware, which founa marks on both freshman and sophomore heads.
 The Annapolis police force, num- boring four men, stormed the gathered sophomores in the street, and believing themselves 70 have Otcn fired upon, cmptlcd their rls- tols over the heads of the rioters. The lead bit into the armory walls, hat otherwise made little impress sion.
 After officers Of the national guard had been refused permission by Governor Eitchie to muster heir men to clear the building, Mayor Alan Bowie Howard who had been injured in the knee by q flying paving brick. called out the fire department The sophomore were drowned out by eight high pressure streams Of water,
 The battle attracted 5000 per sons 10 the center of the city and held up all traffic through the town.
 The nine arrested students were 10 he arraignod today. States At iorHcy \. Theodore Brady said the state property damage charge would not be pressed, as the classes had pledged themselves to pay for it.