April 30, 1914

ANOTHER COLUMBIA RIOT

Two Students Injured in Freshman-Sophomore Clash in Havemeyer Hall

Guarded by a detail of police from the West Sixty-eighth Street Station, who were ordered to see that the rioting which marked the freshman dinner at Bustanoby's, at Broadway and Sixtieth Street, on Tuesday night was not repeated, the sophomore class of Columbia University held its annual feast at 8 o'clock last night at Reisenweber's Restaurant, in Columbus Circle. More than 150 of the freshmen marched up and down in front of the restaurant, but they were afraid to rush the place, even though they know that their class Presidents, Henry C. Monroe of the college division and Duncan Doble of the science division, were prisoners inside the building. Monroe and Doble occupied a little table in the center of the hall. The former sang, very much against his will, and the latter, under pressure responded when called upon for a speech.

A dozen freshmen reached the roof of Reisenweber's from the Hotel Claymore by a rope ladder, but were unable to enter the building.

The most serious fight among the students since the snowball riot of ten years ago, took place at noon in Havemeyer Hall, on the campus, when the freshmen, led by "Toi" Cochran, raided a meeting at which the sophomores were discussing the details of the dinner. Joseph Shimmon, a freshman, was so badly beaten up that he had to be attended by a physician in his room in Hartley Hall. Eddie Shea, a sophomore and pitcher of the Varsity nine, sustained a deep cut on the back of his head. The room was wrecked. The student board at once began an investigation as a fight in any of the buildings is against the rules.

The freshmen began their activities early yesterday. They captured several sophomores and placed those who would not promise to stay away from the class dinner under lock and key.Then the freshmen massed their forces in Hamilton Hall and planned the raid on the sophomore meeting.

During the fight, the freshmen captured "Ed" Spurgeon, a sophomore and a member of last year's crew. He was tossed into a taxicab, but was released upon the order of Charles McCarthy, chairman of the Student Board, because he had been captured in the building. Spurgeon was one of the eight men arrested during the rioting at Bustanoby's.

Eddie Shea pitched in the baseball game against Stevens in the afternoon, wearing a huge piece of plaster to hide the cut on his head.