The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-07

of balls. This miracle was accomplished
! BY hardending the trigger beforehand Ger
tainlV q UTactiCed shot will be able to per-
Ceive on handling "a pistol that the trigger
pulls hard. and ma Ike the necessary al
lOwanceS For this reason" said the
doctor. we kept the pistols out of the
principals hands until the last moment,
when thev were loaded The hard pull
| all unexpected and perceived only at or
after the critical inStant-causes d safe
deviation high and to the right But, ac-
COrdinE to Emile Andre. an accomplished
authority and the author Of four different
manuels of dueling. sure a device as
any Is to ram down Wad without any
ball at all
Which do YOU prefer" one of his Sec
onds asked frightened duehst, the duel
J ing sword or pistols at twenty, paces?''
The dueling sword at twenty PAGES
was the answer You can make good
COMPARISON Of modern fencing and mod
ern warfare. ! heard a we'll known maitre
q armes say at the Automobile clubs last
fencing evening" In the early part of
the century deaths on the ducling ground
had become so frequent that the judicial
/ repression Of the duel threaten to be
dav humanftarians do not continue to
exercise themselves over the matter?
| There is no law against dueling in
I France. The evolution of fencing on the
field of honor has rendered it unnece5-
Surprised to hear an adept speak so
openly begged him TO go on with the
comparison.
I'm modern fencing the practice Of at
I lacking the extremities has become 50
universal that, Joined tc lively Sentl-
ment of distance, it has reduced the sword
/ duel to little more than hygieufc eN-
Good gracious,''
1T has often been said Of dueIs. as of
warfare that the whole modern tendency
I is against too quickly coming into con-
taCt-that the prudent adversary, who de
sireS not to be worsted even before ne
desires to be victorious, ought always to
| be on guard against the Impulses OF a
!
might be fatal To continue the COM
DaTison: Just as battles are now fought
1 at greater and greater distances. so is
the duel with fencing swords. The prac-
| tice Of attacking the eNtremeties had 1t
great impulse IN me tgachIng Of 4, me
who was the first to formulate complete
theory Of it.
This prudent play at the extremities
COunSeIed by Jacob. its inventor, almost
as a trick and forming not at all the
whole of his method. has now become so
universal and so exaggerated in the fenc-
/ ing schools that there are astonishing
numbers of amateurs of no great reputa-
/ ton at all who can, nevertheless PINK
[ their adversary on the hand ana lore
arm at will and with absolute precision
continued nv informant AT the same
I time they take particular care not to be
( touched on the hand or forearm The in
| CeSSanL maintenance of the point IN line
i -bac k-Stepping preferred TO parrylng-tne
sword held far outstretched IN the arm
mobile. retreatlng. out sui point IN me
/ is the other great distinguishing feature
| of the school 1t counts in general more
on the errors of the adversary than on
/ its own offensive means. Its chief danger
/ Is that an eXcitable opponent should spit
himself on that oustretched point oy run
ing uD against il in his hurry
This new sword play-whtch has. at
! least the merit of so often winning the
[ game-ends the duel regularly In httle
( Dricks of the less prudent adversary
/ hand or forearm The merciful conditions
/ Of modern sword duels contribute 20 the
/ result. A barge space of ground is
/ granted TO the duelists In which TO per
/ form their sneaking-aWay eVOluuOnS.
/ The shOrtness of the rounds-regul arty
4 only one minute each-assureS prudence
! and GOODNESS. The introduction or the
I corps-a-corps Is a great safeguard AooNe
/ All the stOpDinz of the combat at the
/ first scratch clinches the safety OF the
/ modern sword duel. It is 50 mucn the
/ case that the Academic d ArmeS has
/ thought Of proposing a special duei1ng
! glove. protecting the hand and the fore
! arm in the interest Of little more frank
/ blOOd-Ietting from the body itself.
| STERLING HELLO.