| Show duels are now out of fashion 0 recent encounters show field 1 of honor has lost its romantic glamour new tort just when it seemed that dueling had bad finally gone out ot of milton fashion after some fourteen centuries of popularity two in paris s an n italian nobleman and jacques ItI chepIn a theater manager started goktas at each other with ra abona the same time norwood huck shy hy and charles A williams of texas W ald hold bold of a handkerchief with their left hands and blazed away acken it with revolvers A little antiseptic and some soma court plaster healed the harm wrought in the lie parisian encounter but not nothing lIng could be done for the texans except to them theia a decent burial the italian duke who lost his battle could have been wounded just as badly in sharpening a pencil as 03 he was in fencing with hla his adversary par paria according to all accounts did not tike take the duel seriously there was vas a time bo however wever when dueling ranted well up with cancer and diabetes to in the mortality ty tables of the aitt in one decade in the reign of heary IY IV frenchmen perished in the duello england Englan 4 germany italy spain and even the united states have also had bad their outbreaks of ct gentlemanly homicide virtually every country has forbidden these theae sia slashing lif g end and shooting parties by law but it ta Is fashion rather una than legislation that has doomed them the spectacle or of two grown men trying to kill each other while their best beat friends look on has come to be regarded as ludicrous rather romantic war revived dueling the close of the war witnessed a brief revival in the settlement of personal and political differences on the so sobbed called field of honor bonor the dueling of nations appeared to have a natural sequel egnel in the mortal combats of individuals Thlu vi duals als the theory has been frequently advanced that life wits was held so 0 o cheaply as a result of the bloodshed in the war the most trivial excuses were sufficient lelent to send a group of men out early in the morning on a mission of mutual manslaughter italian noblemen politicians and journalists trampled down many acres of the good grass around rome home as they endeavored to bring home their argument on the point of a sword benito mussolini when a nationalist deputy engaged in four duels within a few months winning them all but suffering several superficial wounds wound ii it was said that a little inn just outside of rome and off al all the main highways was supported almost entirely by duel lits and aber seconds hungary seethed with duels al most every debate in the national assembly was prolific of a challenge or two while fatalities were few scars cars and bandages were common strong efforts were ere made finally to curb the cutting russia has banned the duel as being a sport of 0 aristocrats two high rusman lan officers of the red army engaged ul in a fatal passage at arms about a year ago following the discon pry that both were paying court to the same girl carl one of the officers was killed the fhe victor was sentenced to three yarb imprisonment the girl was ar rested steil charged with complicity and found guilty the sentence passed upon her was aque she was term termed d a an angel agel of trouble and was ordered ardi red to adain away froni from all cities tor for twenty yeam she must most grow to old age in the country where her charms cant play havoc with impetuous army officers meet duels duel popular in old days in the early duya days of the american avy vy the officers were sticklers klers for dueling ling etiquette in the war on poll about the beginning of the ninth tenth tw nth century dueling among val officers was the vogue duels 9 planters and politicians were faunon A occurrences in some ome ot of the southern states tho the statute books of 0 18 16 states carry laws prohibiting such soch encounters these measures having been prompted by outbreaks of bloody quarrels virginia barred barked from public office any one who had fought in a juel duel the wastage in bu humanity manity engendered by the tha duel has never appealed to the germans although heidelberg and other universities have gone in quite extensively for it IL neither official dignity nor towering rank prevented men from exercising their right of giving or accepting invitations to meet on the field of honor in the duke of york fought an indecisive duel on wimbledon Wimble don common with ft a lieutenant colonel of the dukes regiment after ai a dispute the duke had refused to stand upon whatever immunity was his by reason of his being a son of En glands king william pitt the great commoner and friend of american independence was challenged by george tierney Tl erney a political opponents opponent to mortal combat neither of them had bad the slightest knowledge of handling a pistol two shots which whick each tried went wild then the encounter was stopped by the seconds second who must have been concerned about their own safety safely and that of anybody else in nearby near by england wellington on ofield field of honor the duke of wellington napoleons conqueror was challenged by the earl of following the dukes sharp rebuke of the earl in a religious controversy wrote 1 I now call upon your lord alp to give me that satisfaction for your conduct which a gentleman never refuses to give Welling tons reply followed the approved form and said the satisfaction which your grace has demanded it Is of course impossible for me to decline they met on a field at battersea at the signal fired bred missing deliberately wellington withheld hla his fire before the preliminaries for a second behot were 3 begun one of win chil seas seconds handed a wellington second a signed statement by win in which the earl apologized apologize dl tor for his attack upon wellington in their religious dispute explained later that he had felt he be was in the wrong but had gone through with the duel regardless of the fact that he had not intended to fire at wellington it was the proper thing to do he said En glands most famous duel one of En glands most famous duels was between lord biron a granduncle of the poet and a mr chau vert verl in the affair followed a trivial argument la in a tavern chauvett Ch auvert was run through and killed byron was tried by a jury of his peers N was as found guilty aud and was required to pay the usual fees feea richard brinsley sheridan foul fought a duel with a captain matthews in 1772 it will he be recalled that la in Sherl alio rivals there Is a a buol scene acne that contributes greatly to the humor of 0 the famous play george garrick Garr lck an actor and brother of david garrick was culled called upon to exchange shots allots with the irate husband of 0 a woman friend of garrick Garr lck the husband missed leaving garrick alth the privilege of firing bring ns as deliberately as he ha pleased the wife found the scene of the duel after a frantic search bearch and pleaded with garrick to spare her husband the actor upheld the best traditions of the stage with respect to uch such situations by complying with her request burr and hamilton the most famous duel in this country was that between alexander nam ilton and aaron burr the wave ol of public resentment that followed hamiltons death in the affray did much to discourage dueling in the united states trivial causes often resulted in ID fatal there have been strange duels A poor marksman challenged had been known to name mame ns as the place a darkened room where sound rather than sight guided the alm aim A duel in balloons took place in france in 1908 two men claimed the tha affections of a famous stage beauty of the time armed with blunderbusses blunder busses they ascended in separate balloons A great crowd was attracted to see the ri ascent scent not knowing of the grim plans of tho the men when about feet in the air one of the enemies fired and missed his opponent was more successful cess ful puncturing the gas bag of his rival and sending the latter crashing to earth to be killed instantly |
