WELLINGTON ON ETON
STOEY OP A CENTUKY-OLD FIGHT. KpJ. ~~T , - .. . ,■: : ''^fiJ^Times'' recently printed-a paragraph^from a century-old issue on a fatal fight Jl^Etpn. It related how two boys, one 15;'.,the.7other nearly 17, .had fought i'w nearlfriwo hours, about 60 rounds in ..wl. until %Sjrounger was knocked down •"';<) .' nevcivsjjoko afterwards." He was » son of tho-Eari of Shaftesbury Sevura letters havowsmce appeared' dealing wit b varic.us-dijpccts/of,Ui c affair. At last came this frpta^i^Eyttplton, a forI'ler headmasters-Eton: <-'Ifc may b^ot interest if I gi^the foUowing into mation coßcerniiijfr.fhe fatal ■ fi«ht at fhf^ Ifi 1* light on the well-known Bay mg of the 'Duke-of Wellington. Ab0ut.,.1,854-,Bishop Abraiiain, a. venerated Etbuiafi arid'the father ot the present'Rishtjp-'bf-D.Srby.-'tbld'-me that ho had talked witlV-an: odd,--c", temporary of the Dutepwlm'-^ouchcd in the wall pointed . out to him his remark was, "Tlwn tEFBaWc otW™ > yas won in the Epon^laying -fields ' 16 T^, ds ' ■Jng : io do with games-- which :in:'lßls were; -very rudimentary* an r W lVdH V n£ orgwaed but to testify to the i)ul™s l>ehs m the Britislrbt,ll-dog-spirit le fusi^ to acknowledge a-t, ea ti n g P'fle or' dm»y mterpretaU^ to. the wwds m ri sfc I anyhow be very remote-fromlhetutjf" I
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 16
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WELLINGTON ON ETON
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 16
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