San Francisco
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San Francisco
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January 1939
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4
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9
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SAN FRANCISCO
The Olympic Club foil team composed of Ferard Leicester, DeForest Rodecape, Walter Westman, Merton Davies, and Harold Seal won the Heron Trophy competition by defeating the Funke Fencing Academy 11–9 in the finals on December 2nd. The Funke team was handicapped through the absence of William G. F. O'Brien, its strongest fencer, and forced to fence its four men, Maj. S. R. Irwin, Lt. Kermit Schweidel, Truman W. Clark, and Arthur Lane, against a full 5-man Olympic Club Team.
On December 9th, Alfred R. Snyder, Olympic Club, won the Handicap Foil competition against a field of 20. Despite a heavy handicap of minus 4 touches, he went through the evening without losing a bout. Harry Mortimer of the Olympic Club was second, and Richard Mercer of the San Francisco Y.M.C.A. was third. Handicaps varied from minus four to plus two.
