Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles, but the effort was not proof against an invitation to a shooting match. His successful duel with a prospector prompted the Vigilantes to a civic purge. Head of a little group of outcast reprobates, marooned in a Sierra blizzard with provisions dwindling, John Oakhurst cut the cards, turned up the deuce of clubs, cashed in his chips with a derringer so that the rest could live...
Freshman fencing championship tournaments get under way yesterday with 16 men participating in the fails event. Joseph W. Goldzieher defeated Stewart D. Riddles in the final duel...