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Show BRITISHER, RELIC OF CRUSADES, CHALLENGES HIS COUSIN TO DUEL ( H r. A leafl v,H- iai.) INIHN The mot aroar.mg char jri-r in England today la Sir ilaude Cliamplon do Oespigny. o 73-yeor-old bironet. who has r had tensed his cousin, I. oid Kenyon, 17 venrs hi )u- iimr and i loso friend 'f th wmr. to " The trouble started owr a little tils - ord ivenyon i the dashing duelist. Sir Clauds does not belong to the phone- and fox trota He 1" ren- earnatloa if ihe kind mm who mi- it 600 cars loo late At first the challenge was taken by both Lord Kenyon trid th ouhlli as 'joke. JSut .Sir i laude sas In la In 'lead-Sir 'lead-Sir Claude's Jif has been one naV-j relive of hair-breadth escapes and ad- ! vent Urea He has i-rVssd the Korth SSS In a balloon, swam the narrow cuti fl lir-t Nile r..'. t . toilgtlt In the t : 1 1 1 1 S charging rhinoceros, anil fu;-ni fu;-ni 1. 1 in man) flghtr- with insolent I tars ami cab drivers. Sir Claude I was always "mustard with his mitts " Lard Kenon is England's tallest I peer. Hi stands glk feet four, as 'against Ins cousin's five feet seven, He Sfl the challenge Is "too absurd." His liousin. he inailc known, challenged llilm before suiii'- a 174 SgOi in Athens. This (ilstols for two anil ll.le I Parll it I i.iwn" -etuff. Sir luidc has llorgotten. went out of fashion long bo-jfore bo-jfore crinolines did. The last really famous duel was in 1840. between the Earl of Cardigan and Captain Tuckett. Pour years latr yuren Victoria was successful in halnr a law passed making mak-ing dueling a punishable offense. ' |