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...Duel for Catching...
This was more than an affair of honor between two men. Here, near a private zoo inside the walled gardens of the Villalos Granados, 20 miles from Buenos Aires, a duel was to be fought between principals who symbolized the basic cleavage in Argentine politics : Deputy Rául Damonte Taborda, leader of thwarted liberals, and Colonel Enrique Rottjer, prototype of the ruling conservatives...
...director of the duel, Army Fencing Master Colonel Aniceto Rodrigues, punctiliously following the Code Duello, in vited the two principals to a reconciliation. Both refused. The director stepped back from the line of combat, clapped his hands...
Director Rodrigues intervened. The seconds had arranged that the duel should last -not, as usual, until one man was pinked-until one showed "evident inferiority." By a vote of 3-to-1, attending physicians awarded the engagement to Damonte. Again the director sought a reconciliation. Again he was refused...
This evening's fray will be marked with an individual duel between the opposing centers. Harvard's Tommy Ayres and the Boston star Talbot...