| Show FISTS TOO BRUTAL f r B f fIT SO IT WILL BE BES STEEL S Greenwich Village in Little Old New York Has New Sensation NEW V YORI YORK FORK Oct 1 Having I.-Having Having exhaust exhaust- exhausted exhaust ed 1 all the tilts other resources o of the Jaded world Greenwich village is now to have havea a duel Nicky Muray is going to fight somebody In Tn the tho inn on Tuesday night the great insult InsulL was passed passed I I sit at my table sa says s 's M M. Muray Iura From another table comes a man He leans to lo me and makes the remark He lie sa says s 's to mp me That girl she Is Is 18 No never neVel shall I r repeat what whal that man guys gays S lS 1 ari arise eln in Dm my mr place T i am ver very calm I Isay isay say to him You IJ arc a liar I I 3 say much nuch Vt Jk think and r ar more mores all all I can t think k and then their r I 1 strike him across the mouth mouth like like that I am prepared to strike him some omo more We Vo would use se the fists b but t he has friends there and I t have llaVe friends They draus drag dra dragus us away Tie He shouts houts to me me Very well wen T i will send two friends to arrange e the Uie affair I r shout to him I too loo will have seconds and we we- shall see The seconds ha have ve met a and nd all is agreed Sunda Sunday morning we shall fight It shall be the sabre or the rapier rapier rapier-as as ashe he pleases He makes the boast he Is the great fencer We Ve shall see I have havethe havethe havethe the tricks myself Three years at the school How low is that Nickolas Muray l blooms in a studio at 29 Macdougal street Between WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Square and the Sixth avenue elevated road A green and orange sign outside says Camera Artist Black letters on the door dool say Bell Ben From that word the e eye e follows a line of oC black paint diagonally up the door and halfway halfway half half- wa way across the Jamb where the push pushbutton pushbutton pushbutton button is This apparently is a vestigial and now atrophied organ The door is open A climb of two flights brings time the duel reporter to the studio under a Sk skylight sky sky- light t. t GIRL IN GREEN GREE SMOCK I I Harry arry Kemps Kemp's picture on a mantel seems deeply admonitory A girl In a agreen agreen agreen green smock with hair that's a credit to the bobber is washing pl plates tes in the I dark room Another in to steel costume has finished inspecting some ome proofs and andIs andis Is about to leave M M. Muray furay the great duellist is 15 at your service He lIe has thrown off his coat oat displaying a pongee Shirt for or the day is warm warn Who Vho are you going to fight the tho reporter reporter re reporter re- re porter asked crassly after the foregoing casus belli was disclosed That answered answered an answered an- an 1 M. M Iura 1 Muray was a secret It w wits was wasa s sa a personal affair an affair of honor To mention the other mans man's name would be as unworthy as to reveal the Identity of the lady She was young she was beautiful she was not a special friend of M. M Muray's but Just a friend The other man he too loo had been a friend of M. M Muray s Muray s but was so no longer Why not have It out with your fists was the visitors visitor's next blundering ob ob- ob I r am bigger I am stronger then this man said M M. M Mura Muray One blow v. and I f would squash him But he says he is a fencer Aha Alma Let him fence Is that tha t sot not fair fall enough Besides my friend he lie went on lo to fight with t fists it is brutal Bang I r knock this man over and he is carried away Does that prove anything And suppose you run a knife through him In the duel and kill him said the reporter Does that prove anything Not a knife knife l I did not sa say knife M. M Muray 1 replied severely The sabre I or the rapier that rapier that Is what we shall use that Is not a knife And you speak of killing Who said anything about killing Let me scratch him on the wrist that wrist that fill b be enough nou h WILL SCRATCH WRIST WRIST But suppose he scratches your wrist I first or suppose that by accident he heI runs you ou through the bod body What will wUl I become of our camera art then M. M Muray gays gave this remark appropriate appropriate i attention but out but could not be dissuaded dissuaded dissuaded dis dis- from his published intention to meet his anon anonymous adversary on the field of honor on the morning of to- to morrow The spot he said had been selected It was In the city and in Inthe the open air He could not tell where It was for privacy was one of or the prime rules of the c cede de duello dueno The police pollee they will not molest us he said Why should the they 1 The box- box ign bout the fight with fists it Is twenty times more dangerous than the duel I am from Hungary The manof manof man manof of whose mouth I made a good slap Is from rom France He Ire too is an artist a artist a painter We Ve understand this thing we know Know are doing It is all right I I suppose you have fought u a rood good many duels the envious reporter said as a girl came carne In to pa pay a bill of 4 and M. M Muray Iura Indicated that there was much to be set In order ere the sands o of life ran out My friend he answered I never had a fight Ight in my life But I tell ten you the time has come the time has come And all over the village the boys and girls are kicking their own shins shirts beI because because be be- cause Nicky Muray lura comparatively a I newcomer has grabbed a lot of ot newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper space they ml might ht have got jf if t they I had only thou thought of the th Idea first |
