A DUEL BETWEEN TWO EPÉE CHAMPIONS

PARIS, March 11. - A duel took place yesterday morning in the suburbs of Paris. It had the unusual feature of pitting two épée champions against each other: Mr. Lucien Gaudin and Mr. Armand Massard.
In the first round, Mr. Gaudin was hit in the hand, and the fight was stopped.
The witnesses for Mr. Lucien Gaudin were Messrs. René Lacroix and René de Préjelan, assisted by Dr. Guérin, and for Mr. Armand Massard, Count Cugnon d'Alincourt and the former French épée champion Charles Lafontan, assisted by Dr. Jean Berger and Dr. F. di Chiara, the latter being Mr. Massard's brother-in-law.
Mr. Gaudin, as we know, is an hors classe champion in foil and épée. Mr. Massard won the world epee championship in 1920.
The meeting was prompted by articles in which Mr. Armand Massard criticized Mr. Lucien Gaudin for not putting his title of "champion hors classe" on the line often enough.