FLOUR AND EGGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 624, 28 March 1929, Page 8

FLOUR AND EGGS

\ULD COLLEGE SCENES | RIVAL LONDON STUDENTS j Raid and .. Birkbeck. rival Loudon cca e g a pitched -battle" being four*- " 3 Quadrangle of Kangs, ott ® ,il * After half an hour's which some 30 window | smashed and damage done to the « men room and main entrance dJ.* the shield was recovered. "i The raiding party, wrote a -I 1 Chronicle- representative. numtZj 120—the J lenders every male that King's could muster, j Piqued by the daring of the KitgJ , raiders and egged on by encouragj I shouts from their womenfolk in m ! rear ' 1116 Picked men of BirkheJ j marched from tr.eir headquarters.H f l etter JLane. ** They descended upon their rtail camp like a bolt from the blueT. ; finding the entrance gates locked! rV j scaled them. Kong's scontTp! : warning and the battle began. ' A steady stream of flour bags, anj and rotten fruit was directed at KSia’ entrance door and other vUeT' points. Meanwhile, the second line of tackers seized a hose, connected it*.' a hydrant and played an even stead* and infinitely more deadly stream nt,' the King’s front-line troops, who w,’ massed on the entrance steps, n.' pared to fight to the last ditch! Kings - fought back valiantly. fej were handicapped by the twin trar dies of ill-luck and bad strategy. l! Said a King’s ringleader: " locked the doors too quickly, with s' result that not half our lot could » out in the quad.” The locked-in half of the defend... army, it is true, did pretty work a hose from the first floor, but the** hard fact remains—King's were font’' with King's very own hose-pipe, »dL humiliation. King’s College from the ou«k looked like a battlefield. Spent mil’ siles -were everywhere, burst flour htgiving the quadrangle the appears*, of being enow covered. Few windows fronting the quad rj mained intact, bolts were off the docwhile the entrance steps and area ir mediately in front were flooded. ; Casualties were mostly bruises *i> dislocated fingers and thumbs—ber of students, however, had to n. ceive hospital attention for mi* hurts. Police finally dispersed the rir.' armies. The origin of the fight lay in a n carried out by Birkbeck College o King’s. In this ‘'Reggie,” the King's maser was damaged. Thinking that the raic ing party were from University Cc. lege, in Gower Street. King’s men r*. taliated by painting the Universit" College statues red. literally. The discovery that the attack rj "Reggie” had been made by Birkbey College men was made, hence the ternoon raid on a comparatively sms ' scale on Birkbeck.