Show EXCITING CONTESTS now students student at german universities prepare them 40 es for dueling he was is first enveloped in a large white r gibor aberdine dinc next ins his throat threat was protected by bands of thick laic cloth wound tightly round and round until it seemed well nigh impo impossible for him to move his licad head the front of his boil body y was then covered will wilh what looked very like a 1 cricket pad on a large scale extending front from the chest tot to the ile knees the file sord arm from tile tho wrist to the shoulder was then lien padded and bandaged t to three times its natural size ind and tile tho hand e guarded liy by a thick leathern gauntlet lastly a pair of spectacles rimmed with metal protected the eves the or dueling in sword is then placed in his hh hand a nasty lookin looking T weapon about a yard and a quarter in in length quite blunt but for about ten tell indies inches at tile the end where it is double edged antl and as sharp is as a razor thus our hero being the challenging parts walks slowly forward to the middle of the iho ground gro t his right arm which must lie terrial terribly y heavy supported by the fucles or junior freshman of the and nd surrounded by his hi comrades ind and admirers meanwhile the same el elaborate preparations have been going on oil it at tile the other end of tile ground and in 1 few moments tho the men arc air standing opposite cash cadi other tile the one small dinall and lithe the other a stout heavy nian man with the head and neek neck of each man ill an has his second also partially protected by padding baddin who stands close by him on oil the left with irith a blunt sword in his hand between bet een tile two betat but at a safe di distance tance stands tile tho lim umpire pire just jnet behind is lit an attendant with a basin of water a sponge and a chair while tile he docthes doc tois hover to cl round tim group roun like vultures scenting sl slaughter luil from afar the buzz of conversation I 1 in tile the rin ring is immediately lius hushed lied as the umpire calls zur sur and announces that two members of such and such T will fight for fifteen minutes then one of the seconds gereg the llie word to cross swords and as the alie two figures in ill tho the middle stand with ri right lit arms iii high n li atti n tile the air air anil and swords crossed tile the other second cries zoi log Z oi antl anil off they go 0 the strokes coming entirely front from the alio wrist r rain il down so rapidly that it is almost i impossible m possible for an inexperienced eye to follow them but as each cach one is guarded truar ded one hears lacars the sharp thwack of th the e sword as s it descends lisec lids I 1 harmless ar valess on oil some part of the padding ng 6 of the shoulder or throat suddenly 1 a I small tuft of hair seems to spring aprin from the llie big mans head 1 cries cries his opponents second The swords dinst k up by the seconds and tile umpire steps up to examine alie head it was a close shave but the skin is whole so they start again the men are now getting dettlo terribly excited breathless ind and panting 7 they slash away at each other ind and ft is is no cay matter for the second i 3 to stop them at the word I 1 halt hal t london so society biety |