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Time Thrusts
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TIME THRUSTS
The 3-weapon team championship will be featured by the entry of a team to be known as the Fifty-plus. This team will be made up of George H. Breed, Elmer Major, and Albert Straus. We wonder if the fifty-plus refers to age or fencing ability—In their bout at the mixed competition, Carol King attacked Miguel de Capriles and lost her balance. Miguel gallantly caught her in his arms and was promptly warned "for closing in"—Aldo Nadi attended a Junior League luncheon where he gave a short biographical talk and fencing lecture followed by a short exhibition with Barbara Cochrane. The Junior League will hold its annual jubilee on April 7th and Nadi will again meet George Santelli and Barbara Cochrane in an exhibition—Leo Nunes tore a ligament and was unable to enter the recent sabre team championship, but we're happy to report that he is up and around. Incidentally, Norman Armitage made his first appearance on a fencing strip since his accident in that same competition—A prominent fencer complained about decision and was told by the director that if he didn’t like the judging, he could quit...Jim Hutchinson immediately cried: "Oh no, don’t say that out loud or there won’t be any fencers left."—Fencing will be taught twice a week at the New York salon of Elizabeth Arden in a course of private and class instruction by Joseph Fiems, Bryn Mawr’s professor of fencing—Miss Barbara Cochrane earned the unique distinction of being the first woman to defeat a man in an official fencing tournament in the metropolitan area—Aldo Nadi tells us the following story: Many years ago a young boy was brought to Radaelli Nadi’s salle. The boy was mentally retarded and had a vacant stare and an utter lack of coordination in his bodily movements. The boy remained at the salle under Nadi’s care, and fencing became his sole interest. Yet this same boy won an Olympic championship not long ago and is now one of the world’s outstanding fencers...which ought to show what fencing can do to develop intelligence.—Phil Lubert, who is a lawyer in the daytime, jokingly pointed to his judge’s pin and told us he had been made a judge...whereupon our perennial wit remarked: "Oh no, they’ve given you a button, but they can’t make you a judge."—Leo Nunes owes the N.Y.A.C.’s sabre team a luncheon party for having won the team championship last week—Norman Armitage, in giving his authoritative comments on fencing, tells us that the foil is the classic weapon—a delicate game best suited for women, and the sabre is the virile weapon which shows the man’s side of the game...we wonder if that’s a nasty crack about epee men—A gala evening in honor of Italo Santelli’s 70th birthday was recently held at Budapest by hundreds of fencing enthusiasts. There were matches between the outstanding masters and amateurs of Hungary. Italo Santelli, though 70 years of age, is still an active master and has turned out a countless number of Olympic champions—Mr. Leo Nunes presented a beautiful new cup to the N.Y.A.C. to replace the old shield as the Sr. Sabre Team Trophy. The cup will be known as the Sherman Hall Trophy in honor of the greatest fencer the N.Y.A.C. has turned out. In case any of us have forgotten, Sherman Hall was five times National Champion and fenced on the 1912 Olympic team at Stockholm—
