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Show FAST TYPE-SETTING. ITJcCaim Beats Barnes in a Match for a Purse of 1,000. New Yobk, December 15. The type-setting contest between Joseph MoCann of the Herald and W. C. Barnes of the World for the championship of the city and State, took place here to-day in the presence of a large number of printers. The purse contended con-tended for was $ 1,CCD. The trial lasted four hours, beginning at 11 o'clock. The type was minion, set without paragraphs. Barnes finished the first 1,033 ems in 29 minntes 30 seconds, and McCann completed his first thousand two minutes later. At 3 o'clock, time was called. McCann had set 8,C32) ems and Barnes 7,951. Thm each man was obliged to correct his own proofs. When the corrections had been made And the number num-ber of lines deducted which each had lost through mistakes, it was found that McCann had 7,862 ems to his credit and Barnes 6,376. ' - m'cann was declared the WINNEB. The winner of this contest last June defeated de-feated Mr. Summers in a contest, when all former records of type-setting were eclipsed. The conditions of this match was that it should last four hours, the type used to be solid minion without paragraphs, and the copy, which' was to be furnished by the referee five minutes before the contest' began, be-gan, to be identical. Each contestant to correct his composition at the termination of the contest, one line to be deducted from the amount of work performed for each minute consumed in correcting, and a corresponding cor-responding fraction of a line for each fraction frac-tion of a minute. The cases to be full size, each contestant to empty his own sticks, and NO ASSISTANCE OF ANY. KIND " To be given to either of them. Each contestant con-testant to select a proof-reader, and each proof-reader to read the matter of both contestants. Either Webster's or Worcester's Worces-ter's dictionary to be authority on the division of words. Three-em spaces to be used in composition, and in spacing out the lines nothing thicker than two three-em spaces to occur, unless necessary to fill the line tight. No word or syllable of a word to be turned over that can be got into a line without the use of thin spaces. A line may be thin spaced to get in a word if the . contestants con-testants choose. Not more than one-em ! spacing to be allowed under any circum- ! stances, except in correcting, and then not ! more than one and a half ems. The stakes, $500 a side, were in the hands of the stake- . holder, Mr. W. H. Bodwell, of the Sun. Mr. William White, of the Commercial and ' Financial Chronicle, was the referee, and j his decisions are to be final, and no appeal ! I can be taken from them. |