Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — “LICKED” TOM REED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“LICKED” TOM REED.

How Billie Crowell Whipped the “Csai-" fa* College Day*. There was a man in Bowdoin College who once “licked” Tom Reed! That is the very word to use—licked.” If he were alive to-day he

could boast of something that would make him p r e - e m i n ent William Crowell, or, as the boys called him. “Biltlle" Crowell, was k a great, tall, .lanky student, ‘with shocky blonde hair, a close friend of

Reed’s. A. W. Bradbury, in aSt Louis paper, says concerning Tom and Billie: “One day, I remember, Tom was leaving his room, when he met Crowell just outside the door. I do not know what passed between them; at any rate, Crowell was a sturdy, athletic chap, handy with his 3sts, and—biff! he suddenly let out a tight-hander which made Tom stag-, yer. The row continued for some time, and Tom was fully and finally licked. Remember the incident? Well, I guess Tom does!”

BI LLIE CROWELL.