New Orleans
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New Orleans
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July 1939
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NEW ORLEANS
The New Orleans Division of the A.F.L.A. enjoyed an active season and doubled its membership during the past year. The promotion of team competition will be its new season's objective.
The following Divisional Officers have been elected for the forthcoming season: James Janssen, Chairman, Captain Robert A. Burton, Vice Chairman, Miss Regina Blanc, Secretary-Treasurer, Messrs. Thomas Kemp, Louis Blanc, Allen Lill and Lyman Greenwood, Committeemen.
The Divisional Tournament of the New Orleans Division of the A.F.L.A. found Thomas C. Kemp the winner of first places in both foil and sabre. James S. Janssen won the epee title. As a result of the epee final match Kemp now wears with pride an eight-stitch arm scar from his bout with Janssen.
Over fifty entries from all of the fencing clubs of the city were attracted this year to the Fifth Annual Duelling Oaks Tournament. Miss Shirley Dambrevy of White High School won the women's foil event. Butler Avery, a left-hander from Fortier High School, won the men's junior foil cup. Raymond Perine, New Orleans Academy, won the junior epee and Alfred LeBlanc, also of the New Orleans Academy, won the junior sabre competition. In the Senior class, James Janssen of the Fencers Club of New Orleans won both the foil and epee cups with Alfred LeBlanc repeating his junior sabre triumph by winning the senior sabre cup as well.
The Cadets of the New Orleans Academy, local Prep School, defeated the Athos Club, fencing organization of the Louisiana State University, 21-6; 8-1 in foil, 9-0 in epee and 4-5 in sabre.
The Athos Club defeated the fencers of the New Orleans Athletic Club 15-12, winning the foil and sabre matches and losing the epee.
The first New Orleans High School Fencing Team Championship was won by the Fortier High School which defeated the S.J. Peters High School 5-4 in foil in both the A and B classes.
The Order of Saint George, the international fencing honor society, is sponsoring an outdoor Epee and Sabre Tournament under the Duelling Oaks on Labor Day. This Tournament is open to any and all contestants. (Entry fee -- 50c per weapon) Entries should be in the hands of Prof. Orest Meykar, 528 Royal Street, New Orleans, provisional Chancellor of the Order, by September 1st. The Order was organized two years ago in response to a demand for a directed social intercourse organization dedicated to the encouragement of gentlemanly behavior and the promotion of fencing. The new Charter of Foundation and the Laws will be approved at the Conclave of the Order which is to be held in conjunction with the above Tournament. The Order has members throughout the South and in Latin America and all persons interested are invited to join.
The fencing team of the 108th Cavalry, Louisiana National Guard, will meet fencers of the Chattanooga and Nashville Y.M.C.A.'s while at summer camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., from July 15th to July 30th. Any other teams of similar military organization of Regular Army, Navy or National Guard may arrange for matches with the Cavalry unit by writing to Prof. Orest Meykar, Staff Sergeant, whose address is given in the paragraph above.
