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...regard to the so-called "duel" at the Los Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape...
...Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When Students Cousineau and Bauer finished posing, they put on fencing masks, but left the tips of their weapons exposed. Captain Fred Schwankovsky of the college fencing team, stepping up to referee, grimly explained that they would use not fencing foils but regulation French...
...Birmingham, Ala. Sheriff Fred H. McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
Four events on the program consisted of firing at a pendulum target, out-lining an 'H', puncturing a poised beer can so as to let as much of the liquid as possible escape, and the grand duel tourney. In this event, won by Read, each man shoots at a paper model of his opponent, with the first to pierce his foe's heart declared the winner...
With the annual duel and the "grand finale of wide and handsome shooting" as highlights, the pistol team will hold its last meeting of the year tonight at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall...