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A.F.L.A. COMPETITIONS IN NEW YORK CITY
John Allaire Three Weapon Team Competition
12 Teams — February 26th
For the second year in a row, the Fencers Club won this competition, which is decided upon the fewest touches scored against, despite the fact that in both years the N.Y.A.C. won all its team matches. The New York University team, however, supplied the surprise of the competition by finishing ahead of the veteran Salle Santelli team, last year’s runner-up. The winning team consisted of Hugh Alessandroni (foil), Norman C. Armitage (sabre), and Tracy Jaeckel and Robert Driscoll (epee).
Final Standing:
Team Club | Foil | Epee | Sabre | Total
Fencers Club | 29 | 40 | 25 | 94
N.Y.A.C. | 40 | 30 | 26 | 96
N.Y.U. | 29 | 45 | 49 | 123
Salle Santelli | 44 | 32 | 49 | 126
Phila. Sword Club | 56 | 33 | 42 | 131
Seton Hall | 66 | 36 | 39 | 141
West Pt. Officers | 64 | 36 | 48 | 148
Columbia Univ. | 47 | 51 | 42 | 161
Salle Vince | 38 | 54 | 66 | 153
St. Johns Coll. | 49 | 62 | 50 | 161
Saltus Club | 57 | 56 | 56 | 169
Greco Fencing Acad. | 61 | 66 | 44 | 171
Nondivisional Qualifying Round — Individual Junior Foil — 28 Entries — 6 Preliminary Strips — 3 Final Qualifying Strips — 8 Qualifiers — February 28th.
Silvio Giolito, N.Y.U., and Nathaniel Lubell, Salle d’Armes Vince, led the eight qualifiers from New York in the qualifying rounds for the National Junior Championship. Both men went through the two rounds of competition undefeated. Daniel Bukantz, Salle d’Armes Vince, 7th in National foil ranking, dropped one bout to qualify along with Max Goldstein, C.C.N.Y., Daniel Alagna, St. Johns, Irving Saltz, Cantor Fencers Club, Nino Mainaci, Saltus Club, and Ralph E. Marson, N.Y.A.C.
Qualifying Rounds:
Strip #1
Silvio Giolito (N.Y.U.) defeated Di Giacinto 5-0, Goldstein 5-3, Tauber 5-3, and Maniaci 5-1.
Max Goldstein (C.C.N.Y.) defeated Di Giacinto 5-4, White 5-3, Tauber 5-3, and Maniaci 5-4.
Nino Maniaci (Saltus Club) defeated Di Giacinto 5-4, White 5-4, and Tauber 5-3.
Albert Di Giacinto (N.Y.A.C.) defeated White 5-0 and Tauber 5-0.
Arthur Tauber (Salle Santelli) defeated White 5-3.
Walter B. White (Saltus Club) lost all bouts.
Giolito and Goldstein qualified, and Maniaci entered fence-off.
Strip #2
Daniel Bukantz (Salle Vince) defeated Wesselman 5-4, Axelrod 5-3, Marson 5-4, and Cassel 5-1.
Daniel Alagna (St. Johns College) defeated Bukantz 5-3, Axelrod 5-4, Marson 5-1, and Cassel 5-2.
Ralph E. Marson (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Wesselman 5-4, Axelrod 5-4, and Cassel 5-1.
Henry B. Wesselman (Fencers Club) defeated Alagna 5-3 and Cassel 5-2.
Ezra Cassel (N.Y.U.) defeated Axelrod 5-4.
Bukantz and Alagna qualified, and Marson entered fence-off.
Strip #3
Nathaniel Lubell (Salle Vince) defeated Cantor 5-2, Ignatov 5-2, Fania 5-3, and Feldman 5-3.
Irving E. Cantor (Fencers Club) defeated Prokop 5-4, Ignatov 5-2, Fania 5-3, and Feldman 5-3.
Felix Feldman (N.Y.U.) defeated Prokop 5-4, Ignatov 5-2, and Fania 5-3.
Stephen Fania (Saltus Club) defeated Prokop 5-3 and Ignatov 5-3.
Austin Prokop (Salle Santelli) lost all bouts.
Lubell and Cantor qualified, and Feldman entered fence-off.
Fence-off for seventh and eighth places:
Marson defeated Feldman 5-3, 8 touches against.
Maniaci defeated Marson 5-4, 9 touches against, scored 9 touches.
Maniaci and Marson qualified.
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Nondivisional Qualifying Round — Individual Junior Epee — 31 Entries — 6 Preliminary Strips — 3 Final Qualifying Strips — 8 Qualifiers — March 7th
Alfred Skrobisch, Fencers Club, led the Nondivisional qualifiers for the National Epee Championship by losing only one bout in the preliminary round and being undefeated in the qualifying round. Other qualifiers were Abraham Martinez and Marvin Metzger of Columbia, Winslow Cornett, Ernest May, and Hugh Alessandroni of the Fencers Club, Albert Di Giacinto, N.Y.A.C., and Archie Ignatov, N.Y.U. The surprise of the competition was the failure of Robert Driscoll, Fencers Club, 9th in National epee ranking, to qualify.
Qualifying Rounds:
Strip #1
Alfred Skrobisch (Fencers Club) defeated Driscoll 3-1, Ignatov 3-0, Ozol 3-2, White 3-0, and Martinez 3-2.
Abraham Martinez (Columbia) defeated Driscoll 3-2, Ozol 3-2, and White 3-2.
Archie Ignatov (N.Y.U.) defeated Ozol 3-1 and Martinez 3-2, 10 touches against.
Rudolph Ozol (Salle Santelli) defeated Driscoll 3-2 and White 3-0, 11 touches against.
Robert Driscoll (Fencers Club) defeated Ignatov 3-2 and White 3-0, 11 touches against.
Walter B. White (Saltus Club) defeated Ignatov 3-1.
Skrobisch and Martinez qualified, and Ignatov entered fence-off.
Strip #2
Winslow Cornett (Fencers Club) defeated Stark 3-2, Calkins 3-1, Metzger 3-0, and Nichtern 3-0.
Marvin Metzger (Columbia) defeated Calkins 3-0, Weber 3-1, and Nichtern 3-0, 7 touches against.
Reginald Weber (Fencers Club) defeated Cornett 3-2, Calkins 3-0, Nichtern 3-1, and tied Stark 3-3, 9 touches against.
Hans Stark (Salle Santelli) defeated Calkins 3-2, Metzger 3-2, Nichtern 3-1, and tied Weber 3-3, 11 touches against.
Jay Calkins (Princeton) and Sol Nichtern (N.Y.U.) lost all bouts.
Cornett and Metzger qualified, and Weber entered fence-off.
Strip #3
Ernest May (Fencers Club) defeated Alessandroni 3-2, Ritayik 3-2, Rogers 3-1, and Moss 3-2.
Albert Di Giacinto (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Alessandroni 3-1, May 3-0, and tied Moss 3-3.
Hugh Alessandroni (Fencers Club) defeated Ritayik 3-0 and Rogers 3-1, 10 touches against.
Paul Moss (Salle Santelli) defeated Alessandroni 3-2, Rogers 3-0, and tied Di Giacinto 3-3, 11 touches against.
William Ritayik (Saltus Club) defeated Di Giacinto 3-2 and Moss 3-2, 13 touches against.
Sanford Rogers (Columbia) defeated Ritayik 3-1.
May and Di Giacinto qualified, and Alessandroni entered fence-off.
Fence-off for seventh and eighth places:
Alessandroni defeated Weber 3-2.
Ignatov defeated Weber 3-2.
Alessandroni and Ignatov qualified.
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Metropolitan Epee Team Championship — 9 Teams — 4 Team Finals — March 6th
After eleven hours of fencing with the electrical epee, the Salle Santelli "A" and "B" teams and the Fencers Club "B" team were tied for first place with two wins and one loss apiece. The fence-off will take place at 2:00 P.M. on April 23rd at the Fencers Club.
This competition was unnecessarily prolonged through the failure of the individual equipment of the contestants and the epee machines themselves.
Summary of the Finals to date:
Salle Santelli "A" defeated the Fencers Club "B" 5-2 and the West Point Officers 5-2.
Salle Santelli "B" defeated the Salle Santelli "A" 5-2 and the West Point Officers 5-3.
Fencers Club "B" defeated Salle Santelli "B" 5-1 and the West Point Officers 5-4.
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Sabre
Nondivisional Qualifying Round — Individual Junior Sabre — 30 Entries — 6 Preliminary Strips — 3 Final Qualifying Strips — 8 Qualifiers — March 7th
With only one loss apiece throughout the competition, Edward Egan of the Saltus Club and Kevis Kapner of Salle Santelli led the eight qualifiers in this unusually large sabre competition. The other qualifiers were James Welles and Gordon Wallis of Columbia, William Ritayik of the Saltus Club, Harold Newton of the Greco Fencing Academy, Bradner Littlehale of the N.Y.A.C., and James Castello of N.Y.U.
Qualifying Rounds:
Strip #1
Kevis Kapner (Salle Santelli) defeated Egan 5-4, Wallis 5-4, Davidoff 5-2, Santos 5-3, and Kornfeld 5-4.
Edward Egan (Saltus Club) defeated Wallis 5-2, Santos 5-1, and Kornfeld 5-2, 15 touches against.
Gordon Wallis (Columbia) defeated Davidoff 5-3, Santos 5-0, and Kornfeld 5-3, 16 touches against.
Murray Kornfeld (St. Johns College) defeated Davidoff 5-3.
Murray Davidoff (N.Y.U.) defeated Egan 5-4.
Henrique Santos (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Davidoff 5-4.
Kapner and Egan qualified, and Wallis entered fence-off.
Strip #2
Harold Newton (Greco Fencing Academy) defeated Siffert 5-0, Girard 5-4, Thompson 5-4, and Ritayik 5-3.
William Ritayik (Saltus Club) defeated Siffert 5-3, Girard 5-3, Thompson 5-3, and Zimet 5-4.
Melvin Zimet (Salle Santelli) defeated Siffert 5-3, Girard 5-3, and Newton 5-2.
George Thompson (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Siffert 5-3 and Zimet 5-4.
Douglas Girard (Salle Santelli) defeated Thompson 5-1.
Robert Siffert (N.Y.U.) defeated Girard 5-4.
Newton and Ritayik qualified, and Zimet entered fence-off.
Strip #3
James Welles (Columbia) defeated Mocarski 5-4, Mijer 5-3, Sharfstein 5-1, and Littlehale 5-2.
Bradner Littlehale (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Castello 5-4, Mijer 5-1, and Sharfstein 5-1, 16 touches against.
James Castello (N.Y.U.) defeated Mocarski 5-2, Mijer 5-3, and Sharfstein 5-3, 18 touches against.
L. Lada-Mocarski (Salle Santelli) defeated Sharfstein 5-4 and Mijer 5-2.
Peter Mijer (Salle Santelli) defeated Mocarski 5-4 and Castello 5-3.
Welles and Littlehale qualified, and Castello entered fence-off.
Fence-off for seventh and eighth places:
Wallis defeated Castello 5-0 and Zimet 5-1.
Castello defeated Zimet 5-4.
Wallis and Castello qualified.
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Three Weapon Individual Championship — 20 Entries — March 12th
This National Championship is fought on a basis of a total of five touches in each weapon in the order of foil, epee, and sabre, each match stopping when either contestant has accumulated eight touches. Each match is for direct elimination.
Jose R. de Capriles, Salle Santelli, runner-up to Dr. John R. Huffman, N.Y.A.C., for four successive years, finally succeeded in reversing positions with Huffman to make that 7-time champion in this event content with second position.
The most exciting match of the competition was the lengthy, hard-fought, exhausting encounter in the semi-finals between Jose de Capriles and the veteran Leo G. Nunes of the N.Y.A.C., when the new champion barely defeated his more experienced 6-time former title holding opponent by the score of 8 touches to 7.
Summaries:
Elimination Round:
Pieter Mijer (Salle Santelli) defeated Irving E. Cantor (Fencers Club) 8-2.
Murray Kornfield (St. John’s College) defeated Thomas Rudawski (Jersey City Fencers Club) 8-5.
Peter O’Connor (Greco Fencing Academy) defeated Harry Morgansenter (St. John’s College) 8-3.
Norman Lewis (Salle Santelli) defeated Stanley Levenson (Metropolitan Club) 8-1.
Second Round:
Pieter Mijer defeated Nicholas Muray (N.Y.A.C.) 8-7.
Miguel de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Thomas Gillen (Jersey City Fencers Club) 8-3.
Dr. John R. Huffman (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Kornfeld 8-4.
Dr. James H. Flynn (Salle Santelli) defeated Leon Anspacher (Fencers Club) 8-1.
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated O’Connor 8-2.
Kevis Kapner (Salle Santelli) defeated Daniel Bukantz (Salle d’Armes Vince) 8-6.
Leo Nunes (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Lewis 8-6.
Hugh Alessandroni (Fencers Club) defeated Rudolph Ozol (Salle Santelli) 8-2.
Quarter Finals:
Miguel de Capriles defeated Mijer 8-5.
Huffman defeated Flynn 8½-6½.
Jose de Capriles defeated Kapner 8-3.
Nunes defeated Alessandroni 8-6.
Semi-Finals:
Huffman defeated Miguel de Capriles 8-3.
Jose de Capriles defeated Nunes 8-7.
Final:
Jose de Capriles defeated Huffman 8-4.
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Metropolitan Foil Team Championship — 6 Teams — 4 Team Finals — March 14th and 16th
After two evenings of fencing, the N.Y.A.C. team and the Salle Santelli A team remained tied for first place with the Fencers Club team in a position to make it a triple tie if it should defeat the Salle d’Armes Vince team on a resumption of the Final round.
On the Final nights, the N.Y.A.C. won two matches defeating Salle d’Armes Vince 5-3 and Salle Santelli 5-3; the Salle Santelli won two matches defeating the Fencers Club 5-3 and Salle d’Armes Vince 5-3; the Fencers Club won one match defeating the N.Y.A.C. 5-4 and the Salle d’Armes Vince won one match defeating the Fencers Club 5-3.
In the fence-off, the N.Y.A.C. defeated the Salle Santelli 5-4.
Final Fence-Off:
N.Y.A.C. 5 — Salle Santelli 4
Darnell Every (N.Y.A.C.) defeated de Capriles 5-4 and Norman Lewis 5-2.
John R. Huffman (N.Y.A.C.) defeated de Capriles 5-4 and Lewis 5-3.
Ralph E. Marson (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Lewis 5-4.
Warren Dow (Salle Santelli) defeated Every 5-3, Huffman 5-1, and Marson 5-1.
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Marson 5-4.
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Metropolitan Sabre Team Championship — 7 Teams — 4 Team Finals — March 21st and 23rd
With the N.Y.A.C. strong A and B teams expected to defend their club’s title successfully in this weapon, the spectators were treated to a surprise upset when Salle Santelli A team survived the competition undefeated. Through the clever shifting of its third and fourth men between matches, depending upon the team to be faced, the Salle Santelli team was able to gain a one-point victory over both N.Y.A.C. teams and then by defeating the Fencers Club take the championship.
Finals:
N.Y.A.C. “A” 5 — N.Y.A.C. “B” 4
Samuel T. Stewart (A team) defeated de Nagy 5-4 and Muray 5-3.
John R. Huffman (A team) defeated Acel 5-4 and Muray 5-4.
Ralph E. Marson (A team) defeated Acel 5-4.
Bela de Nagy (B team) defeated Marson 5-4 and Huffman 5-3.
Dr. Erwin Acel (B team) defeated Stewart 5-4.
Nickolas Murray (B team) defeated Marson 5-1.
Salle Santelli "A" 5 — Fencers Club 2
Philip Lubart (Salle Santelli) defeated Cantor 5-4 and Wallis 5-3.
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Wallis 5-4.
Miguel de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Cantor 5-2 and Wallis 5-3.
Norman Armitage (Fencers Club) defeated Lubart 5-2 and J. de Capriles 5-3.
New York Athletic Club "A" 5 — Fencers Club 3
Samuel T. Stewart (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Wallis 5-4.
Ralph Marson (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Cantor 5-4 and Wallis 5-2.
John R. Huffman (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Cantor 5-1 and Armitage 5-2.
Irving Cantor (Fencers Club) defeated Stewart 5-1.
Norman Armitage (Fencers Club) defeated Stewart 5-3 and Marson 5-1.
Salle Santelli "A" 5 — New York Athletic Club "B" 2
Dr. James H. Flynn (Salle Santelli) defeated Nagy 5-2 and Acel 5-4.
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Murray 5-2.
Miguel de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Nagy 5-1 and Acel 5-2.
Bela de Nagy (N.Y.A.C.) defeated J. de Capriles 5-4.
Dr. Erwin Acel (N.Y.A.C.) defeated J. de Capriles 5-3.
Nicholas Murray (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Flynn 5-0 and M. de Capriles 5-2.
Salle Santelli "A" 5 — New York Athletic Club "A" 4
Philip Lubart (Salle Santelli) defeated Marson 5-4.
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Marson 5-1.
Miguel de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Stewart 5-0, Huffman 5-4, and Marson 5-2.
Samuel T. Stewart (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Lubart 5-1 and J. de Capriles 5-1.
John R. Huffman (N.Y.A.C.) defeated Lubart 5-1 and J. de Capriles 5-3.
Salle Santelli "A" won 3; New York Athletic Club "A" won 2; New York Athletic Club "B" won 0; and Fencers Club won 0.
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Greco Individual Foil Competition — 27 Entries — 6 Man Finals — April 4th
Warren Dow of the Salle Santelli won this competition again for the fourth successive year. His third victory last year retired the original Trophy, and he has now established first leg on a second Trophy, a fencing statuette mounted on an oval chestnut base.
Norman Lewis and Jose de Capriles, also of the Salle Santelli, took second and third respectively on the basis of touches after tying with three victories apiece.
Finals:
Warren Dow (Salle Santelli) defeated de Capriles 5-3, Lewis 5-3, Huffman 5-4, Lubell 5-3, and Weber 5-1.
Norman Lewis (Salle Santelli) defeated Huffman 5-1, Lubell 5-2, and Weber 5-2 (15 touches against).
Jose de Capriles (Salle Santelli) defeated Lewis 5-4, Lubell 5-3, and Weber 5-0 (17 touches against).
John R. Huffman (N.Y.A.C.) defeated de Capriles 5-2 and Weber 5-1.
Nathaniel Lubell (Salle Vince) defeated Huffman 5-3 and Weber 5-4.
Edward Weber (Greco Fencing Academy) lost all bouts.
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Fish Individual Women’s Foil Competition — 8 Entries — March 29th
This competition, limited to Senior fencers, attracted eight girls to compete for the prize awarded by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. After three second places, Miss Madeline Dalton, Salle d’Armes Vince, won this, her fourth competition of the season, by defeating Miss Carol Alessandroni, Fencers Club, and Miss Mildred T. Stewart, Salle Santelli, in a fence-off after a triple tie for first place. In the same fence-off, Miss Alessandroni placed second and Miss Stewart third.
Summaries:
Miss Madeline Dalton (Salle d’Armes Vince) defeated Miss Cerra 4-3, Miss Stewart 4-0, Mrs. Funke 4-3, Miss Cochrane 4-2, and Mrs. Vokral 4-3 (five wins, two losses).
Miss Carol Alessandroni (Fencers Club) defeated Miss Cerra 4-3, Mrs. Funke 4-2, Miss Dalton 4-1, Miss Cochrane 4-1, and Miss Grimmelman 4-3 (five wins, two losses).
Miss Mildred T. Stewart (Salle Santelli) defeated Mrs. Funke 4-2, Miss Alessandroni 4-3, Miss Cochrane 4-1, Miss Grimmelman 4-3, and Mrs. Vokral 4-3 (five wins, two losses).
Mrs. Jarmila Vokral (Salle Herrmann, Phila.) defeated Mrs. Funke 4-0, Miss Alessandroni 4-3, Miss Cochrane 4-2, and Miss Grimmelman 4-3.
Miss Dorothy Grimmelman (Salle Santelli) defeated Mrs. Funke 4-3, Miss Dalton 4-0, and Miss Cochrane 4-2.
Miss Maria Cerra (Salle d’Armes Vince) defeated Miss Stewart 4-3, Miss Grimmelman 4-3, and Mrs. Vokral 4-0.
Miss Barbara Cochrane (Salle Santelli) defeated Miss Cerra 4-2 and Mrs. Funke 4-1.
Mrs. Dolly Funke (Greco Fencing Academy) defeated Miss Cerra 4-3.
Fence-Off:
Miss Dalton defeated Miss Alessandroni 4-3, Miss Stewart 4-2.
Miss Alessandroni defeated Miss Stewart 4-2.
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Greco Individual Women’s Foil Competition — 25 Entries — 6 Woman Finals — March 19th
The shuffling and reshuffling of place winners that has been evident in the women’s competitions this year was continued in this competition, held to decide the 1939 possessor of the Greco Trophy. Mrs. Dolly Funke of the Greco Fencing Academy surged ahead with Miss Maria Cerra of the Salle d’Armes Vince to go into a fence-off for first place and finish first and second respectively. The Misses Barbara Cochrane, Mildred Stewart, and Madeline Dalton, subjects of much of the earlier season place-shuffling, had to be content with a triple tie for third place.
Finals:
Mrs. Dolly Funke (Greco Fencing Academy): Defeated Miss Stewart 4-3, Miss Cochrane 4-3, Miss Grimmelman 4-2, and Miss Dalton 4-3 (4 wins).
Miss Maria Cerra (Salle d’Armes Vince): Defeated Miss Stewart 4-1, Miss Cochrane 4-3, Miss Grimmelman 4-2, and Mrs. Funke 4-3 (4 wins).
Miss Barbara E. Cochrane (Salle Santelli): Defeated Miss Grimmelman 4-3 and Miss Dalton 4-0 (16 touches against, scored 16 touches).
Miss Mildred T. Stewart (Salle Santelli): Defeated Miss Cochrane 4-2 and Miss Dalton 4-1 (15 touches against, scored 15 touches).
Miss Madeline Dalton (Salle d’Armes Vince): Defeated Miss Grimmelman 4-0 and Miss Cerra 4-3 (15 touches against, scored 12 touches).
Miss Dorothy Grimmelman (Salle Santelli): Defeated Miss Stewart 4-3.
Fence-off:
Mrs. Dolly Funke defeated Miss Maria Cerra 4-0.
