World Championships - Foil and Sabre
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World Championships - Foil and Sabre
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August 27, 1937
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12
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - Foil and Sabre
Advance reports from the World's Championships indicate that the supremacy of the Italians in foil and epee, and of the Hungarians in sabre, as demonstrated at the Berlin Olympiad, still holds good. Both these nations swept to the team and individual titles in the respective weapons in addition to several other places in the individual finals.
Outstanding was the victory of Gustavo Marzi, 1932 Olympic champion, in foil, who did not compete individually in 1936 in deference to the veteran Gaudini who won the title in the last Olympics. Marzi confirmed the impression that we had formed last year on the basis of his performance in the team events—that he is the best amateur foilsman in the world. Marzi went through the individual events without a single defeat, although he was beaten once in the team bouts—by Bougnol of France.
In the individual final, Marzi had a close call in his first bout, against Bocchino of Italy, winning only by 5-4. But he scored easily in his next five bouts, winning a brilliant encounter from Lemoine of France and another from Edward Gardere, which proved to be the championship bout. In the latter, Marzi led at 2-0 and was caught at 3-3, but Marzi scored beautifully twice in a row to win. The last bout, however, furnished the major thrills of the tournament, when Andre Gardere, younger brother of Edward, almost forced a fence-off, leading Marzi throughout the bout until the score stood at 4-all, only to fall before the Italian on the last exchange.
Three Frenchmen placed close behind Marzi, Edward Gardere taking second, Lemoine taking third, and Andre Gardere fourth. Giuliano Nostini took fifth place on touches over Bocchino, and Faldini was seventh. All three represented Italy. An unidentified Hungarian placed eighth. The two other members of the Italian team, both of whom were eliminated in the semi-final, were Renzo Nostini, brother of Giuliano, and DiRosa, who performed well in the 1936 Olympics.
THE RIPOSTE has no details as to the results of the foil team championships, except the fact that the Italian team won and the French placed second. Most of our information comes from the Italian newspapers.
In the sabre, Hungary apparently won with great ease in the team events, and Italy was second. In the individual, the Hungarians were decidedly superior, taking the first three places and sending all six men into the final. Kovacs won the individual championship, and the highest Italian was Finton, who finished fourth. No details have reached us as to the performance of the lone American representative, Nickolas Muray.
