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July 1939
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EDITORIAL
One of our objectives has been to supply in brief but detailed form a permanent record of the results of fencing competitions throughout the United States. You already have received reports of Divisional, Intercollegiate, Pacific Coast, Mid West, and All-Eastern Championships. In this issue, we present in individual detail the results of every competitor in the 1939 National Championships. In this way, we hope that our subscribers may find our magazine not only of present interest but also of permanent future reference value.
Another of our objectives has been to provide as full coverage as possible to fencing affairs throughout the country. Gradually our sources of information have expanded, and we are able this time to give interesting details concerning Minnesota, Southern California, and New Orleans to name a few. We are pleased to report a new contact which promises to supply news regularly in the future concerning the ever-growing Southwestern Fencing League. When once the fencers of Maine and New Mexico become mutually interested in each other's activities, we can truthfully claim that fencing has at last become a National sport.
We try to provide at least one fencing article of a technical nature in every issue. We are proud to present two interesting full-length articles this month and have been promised future articles by other writers from whom we should all be pleased to hear.
New subscriptions are coming in—not exactly pouring in, but nevertheless arriving in gratifying numbers from the most unexpected places. Our magazine is apparently making friends.
Here it is middle summer, a time when we should rather be jumping off a diving board with nose held tight than working over printer's proof in our hot apartment (office). THE RIPOSTE, however, must make at least a semblance of regular publication, and so we carry on. Pardon us, therefore, if in this humidity, it looks pretty good to us.
