Introducing the Riposte
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Introducing the Riposte
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December 19, 1935
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The article introduces The Riposte as a cooperative, reader-supported fencing periodical aiming to provide news, event coverage, and engaging content for the fencing community, with aspirations to expand its reach and quality through reader contributions and financial support.
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Introducing the Riposte
Fencers have long realized the need of a periodical devoted to fencing news and fencing features. Previous attempts to fill this need have been made on a tentative scale and without permanent success.
The Riposte is a modest effort. We prefer to expand and improve as your support and encouragement grows. Our enterprise is largely cooperative. Without your help we cannot survive. We would like your financial support. But we need as well your "literary" contributions—reports to the staff of interesting events in your clubs and divisions, juicy gossip notes that should make other fencers chuckle, and the like.
We plan to cover the competitions with adequate comments and eventually include the results of foreign meets. These will be of particular importance with the coming of the Olympics. We have time, first-hand news stories of the Olympic Games themselves.
As the newspaper about fencers, by fencers, and for fencers, The Riposte asks your wholehearted cooperation in a mutually enjoyable enterprise.
The Editors
