Orthodox members of the fashionable Parisian Cercle de I' Escrime (Fencing Club) all but wept last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous.
A young society woman of 18, whose name was...
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