Show a critical journalist A very slight and polite criticism indulged in at the expense of a cavalry officer who was riding about a week ago at the horse show has assumed the proportions of a serious event the officer in question pent a letter to the writer saying that ia i a could understand the criticizing criticising critic ising the horsemanship of jockeys and grooms but that la had no business to pass any remarks on that of gentlemen or officers he forbade the journalist to mention his name and wound up by adding that his sole right was that of the stronger and that he would prove it if the offense were repeated the journalist in a second paragraph remarked that he did not think he had acted improperly in criticizing criticising critic ising the performances for mances of horsemen who rode in fl public place to which admission was obtained by payment and referring to the letter said he could not believe that it had been penned by a french officer and was convinced that it was a forgery thereupon the cavalry officer sent two of his friends to the journalist with a hostila message and in the duel that followed he wounded him in the arm he thus proved that he was le plus fort but the affair is creating a great sensation the prevailing opinion being that the argument employed by the officer was to say the least utterly illogical in unlucky episode has brought once more on the tapis the vexed question of the expediency of military men displaying their prowess at races and borso chows paris cor london telegraph |