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...read with much interest, in your issue of May 30, the item regarding the Cash-Shannon duel...
...wondering from whom you got the information. It was the most famous duel of the time and really ended dueling. It was also the last straw that broke the camel's back and caused my father to leave South Carolina where Col. Shannon was one of the foremost men in his community...
Devens and Mahoney were the rival pitchers in that duel and it is likely that the same pair will be on the mound tomorrow. Devens, however, who won the first game with his triple when the bases were loaded and lost it by his numerous walks and his error in the ninth inning, should ascend the mound this afternoon under much more favorable circumstances. In the Worcester contest he had the disadvantage of pitching before a highly partisan crowd of some 5000 spectators which swept the field with yelling whenever the Purple threatened the Crimson lead. Tomorrow, on his home...
...interesting letter in TIME. April 25, p. 10 in regard to "Rumanians & Popcorn" which informs us that dueling is unlawful in Rumania reminds us of the Non-Dueling Oath in South Carolina which each Governor has been required to take since 1881: When the present Governor, Ibra C. Blackwood, took the oath of office Jan. 20, 1931, he swore among other things that he would not engage in dueling during his term of office. Moreover all governors of the Palmetto State take the the oath that they have not engaged in any affair in the court of honor since...
...Cash-Shannon duel still bothers South Carolinians who "hold honor dearer than life." Col. Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash's wife held a judgment against her brother's property. A client of Col. William M. Shannon and Capt. William L. DePass held a junior judgment and contested the sale of the property to satisty Mrs Cash's claim. The legal basis of the contest was a charge of fraud between Mrs. Cash and her brother...