Dink Draw
"The dink tradition," an editor's note comments, "was being imposed by force on similarly-protesting Freshmen long before Mr. --- was born, and the Princeton spirit seems to have survived the strain."
But the dink controversy ended without any clear-cut decision; the emasculated cane spree stole the "class spirit" that same day.
The Soph touch gridders tramped the '51s 12 to 0, but the yearling softballers won 5 to 1. Sophomores ran faster and tugged a rope harder and pulled into the lead as the afternoon pounded ruggedly on.
Sophs Eke Out Win
The grim, ill-nourished Freshmen grabbed the cherished cane from three of their four opponents in the final title event, but "the strong arms" of a Sophomore named O'Connor "wrenched the wood" from his enemy, the sobered Princetonian reported, and saved his class from the ignominious disaster of defeat.
The "long-dormant spirit of dink-wearing" has been revived and Nassau, with '50 reveling in its gory glory, looks to the jazz-mad good old days for inspiration.
Already, innocent high school seniors are doomed by the Princetonian. "The issue should be fresh enough in the minds of the Class of '51," it proclaims, "to insure that they will enforce dink-wearing on the Class of 1952 when it will do the most good."