Hungarian Olympic Sabre Try-Out an Exerting Marathon
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Hungarian Olympic Sabre Try-Out an Exerting Marathon
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April 9, 1936
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HUNGARIAN OLYMPIC SABRE TRY-OUT AN EXERTING MARATHON
Mr. Bela de Nacy has favored us with the following translation of a report from his favorite Hungarian newspaper. We think it of interest because of the information about that country’s Olympic hopes, and also as a fine example of the way tournaments are reported abroad.
The first Olympic Sabre tryout proved that Hungary has nothing to fear. We saw some ultra modern fencing built on fine technical knowledge. All the fencers were in great shape and produced some truly beautiful bouts! This was specially true in the first part of the competition, as the fencers later showed signs of fatigue, slashing out of time.
The winner, Kovacs, deserved his victory. He is good on both the offense and defense. His touches were clean—carefully planned and well executed. He fought with confidence, but took no unnecessary chances.
Tied with Kovacs was Kabos. He does not have the high degree of technique which marked Kovacs’ fencing, but has an excellent sense of time and is a very good fighter. He lost only because he tired after the 5½ hours of fencing.
Gerevich fenced very well in some bouts. He is fast, versatile and very dangerous when he musters enough courage to attack. His stops and remises were surprisingly fast.
Rajcsanyi made excellent use of the delayed attack. His parries were sure and speedy, and were especially effective in disorganizing attacks.
Berczelly was fast and very versatile in his timing, but showed up weak on the attack.
Rajczy was really good only in the beginning. Later he looked tired and his otherwise excellent timing was slow. He fenced more long bouts than anyone else.
Palocz has improved considerably. He has learned to fight, but his “en garde” is too wide—which prevents quick starting.
Zirczy is not yet in shape. His timing is surprising, but he did not fight as well as usual.
Kosu parried and stopped well, but was slow starting his attacks.
The finals were very reassuring for Hungarian fencing supremacy, but the competition lasted much too long. Twenty of the 36 bouts fenced required more than the usual 5 touches. __ (The bouts were fenced under the ruling which will go into effect throughout Europe after the Olympic games. Every bout is for 5 touches but must be won by a margin of at least two—as tennis sets. —Ed. Note)
