Time Thrusts
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Time Thrusts
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TIME THRUSTS
Col. Henry Breckenridge went to see the Nedi Nadi exhibition. Santelli remarked how helpless he felt against the lightning thrusts of Nadi, and the colonel, with his usual superb facility for words, said “Maestro, there is something noble and courageous in combating the inevitable” .... which is probably the first time Nadi has been called that, and made both fencers feel highly complimented .... Someone suggested that sabre men should use a foil strap so they wouldn’t “break the wrist”, whereupon George Thompson innocently asked “Why, does it happen very often?” .... which reminds us that the doctors have told Norman Armitage to occasionally flex the muscles of his arm so that it will not stiffen too much .... someone had the bright idea to advise Formichini to keep his wrist still so that it would always remain rigid .... then Santelli can never yell at him about “breaking the wrist” .... The best feature on Major Bowes’ program last Sunday was a selection from Pagliacci sung in a cheerful young tenor voice who said he had been on the 1932 Olympic fencing squad .... the young tenor turned out to be none other than Ken Ludlum, former Harvard fencer, whom most of us will recall as the runner up in the 1931 Nationals in épée .... Titles and reputations didn’t seem to mean anything at the 3 weapon championship last week. Hugh Alessandroni lost his foil bouts against Bela de Nagy and Mike de Capriles, and then set out to avenge this assault on his reputation by defeating Bela in sabre and Mike in épée 4-1 .... Milan now says Hugh’s brilliant victory in the Met. Epee vindicates him .... we wonder whether Hugh will win the Met. Sabre to vindicate Bela .... After losing a bout with the electrical machine, Gafford went over to Granson to tell his tale of woe .... “Booby” immediately asked “How was the judging?” .... George Cointe sends us this story of superb courage .... the captain of the girls’ fencing team at Cornell had fenced two years right handed. One evening Cointe noticed that she ate with her left hand .... when asked why she fenced with her right, she said she had been told it was against the rules to fence any other way! .... the next day she started left handed lessons, and when her leg became lame she sat in a chair and practiced hand work .... Two months later she entered the Intercollegiates as a good left handed fencer. Her name is Miss Nellie Gordon .... We were amused at the effect the photographers had on some of our illustrious fencers .... Darnell Every, with precision and grace, produced a comb and began to stroke the top of his head .... Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!
