Duels on His Chest

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 39, 16 February 1937, Page 10

Duels on His Chest

COMPLAINT OP HONOABIAN DOCTOR ''BUD APES TTfVb. U. *‘l want to get them off my chest,' ’ said Dr. Sarga, referring to the three remaining duels, one of which was fought to-day with an ex-suitor of his wife, M. Vitos de Vaacony, a bank official, leaving one against a Civil Servant and another against hia penultimate opponent who wae wounded when the police intervened, M. Vazcony recently testified against Dr. Sarga in Dr. Sarga’s laweuit against his wife ’e family, Dr. Sarga subsequently refusing to acknowledge M. iliazcony's salutation, declaring that he (replied to greetings only from gontlejmen. The result was fourteen rounds of •a duel with sterilised Italian sabres at a j fencing school lasting 90 minutes. The {contestants sfrijiped to tho waist and •wore neck bandages. Dr. Sarga, with *his customary gorilla yell in the seventh round, evaded M. Vazcony's thrust and seriously wounded him in the hip. A surgeon bandaged tho wound and tho seconds vainly urged reconciliation. Tho duel resumed. M. Vazcony was wounded in the neck in the eighth round and broke his knee in tho fourteenth. A Budapest mcssa'go on November 24 stated that, seeking to vindicate tho honour of his wife, which had allegedly boon aspersed, Dr. Francis Hargo challenged nine mer. to duels. Ho fought tho first two duels with pistols socretly in a stubble field on the outskirts of tho city. His first opponent was wounded in the arm and taken to hospital. Jn tho second duel both parties missed and become reconciled. A third duel was stopped by the police after Dr. Sargo had inflicted a four-inch wound in hia opponent's head.