A.F.L.A. Competitions Held in New York City
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A.F.L.A. Competitions Held in New York City
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December 1939
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A.F.L.A. COMPETITIONS HELD IN NEW YORK CITY
Open Foils Team Competition—Cartier Trophy—8 Teams—October 26th
This early-season foil team competition attracted 8 teams to the strips of the Saluts Fencing Club. At the end of the first evening of competition, the four remaining teams were N.Y.A.C., Salle Santelli "A", Saluts Fencing Club "A" and Salle d'Armes Vince.
In the four-team finals the N.Y.A.C. defeated the Saluts "A" team 5-1 and the Salle d'Armes Vince team 5-1, while the Salle Santelli defeated the Saluts Fencing Club 5-0 and the Salle d'Armes Vince 5-4. This left the final match between the N.Y.A.C. and the Salle Santelli "A", the same teams who competed similarly in 1935, 1937, and 1938.
The N.Y.A.C. team of Warren Dow, Dermell Evers, John Huffman and Ralph Marson swept through to a 5-0 victory against Diaz Cetrulo, Jose de Capriles, Miguel de Capriles and Norman Lewis. The Salle Santelli had two legs on the Trophy and their loss returned the Trophy to assured circulation for another two years at least.
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Individual Novice Foil Competition—41 Entries—November 11th
After almost 9 hours of fencing, Theodore Green of the Saluts Fencing Club, won the gold medal at the Salle Santelli after a three-way tie for first place with Murray Kornfeld of St. John's University and James Strauch of City College. In the fence-off Green defeated Kornfeld 5-4 and Strauch 5-3. Kornfeld defeated Strauch 5-2 for second place.
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Three-Weapon Team Competition—John Allaire Memorial Trophy—8 Teams—November 12th
The Fencers Club won this competition for the third successive year by the largest margin of any of the three competitions held thus far. The winning team was paced by Norman Armitage with but 10 touches scored against him in sabre, while Lt. Gustave Heiss and Tracy Jaeckel shared the epee assignment with 17 touches against them and Hugh V. Alessandroni held his foil score down to 21. The Salle Santelli team of Norman Lewis in foil, Jose de Capriles in epee and Miguel de Capriles in sabre was second.
This competition is scored on the basis of touches against, low score winning. Each bout is for 5 touches with the additional penalty of one point for losing the bout. The competition was held at the N.Y.A.C.
Summary of Team Standings
Team | Foil | Epee | Sabre | Total
Fencers Club | 21 | 17 | 10 | 48
Salle Santelli | 15 | 29 | 18 | 62
N.Y.A.C. | 21 | 28 | 18 | 67
Veterans | 42 | 18 | 30 | 90
Greco Fencing Academy | 33 | 38 | 33 | 104
Saluts Fencing Club | 34 | 38 | 33 | 105
St. John's University | 30 | 38 | 38 | 106
Columbia University | 37 | 35 | 37 | 109
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Individual Senior Epee Competition—7 Entries—November 14th
In this small but select field of Senior epeeists, Pieter Mijer, 59 year old veteran of the Salle Santelli, won first prize on the fencing strips at the Salle d'Armes Henry IV. He lost two bouts during the evening, one to Tracy Jaeckel of the Fencers Club and the other to Kees Kappen of the Salle Santelli. Strangely enough these two losses forced him into a triple tie for first place with the same men. In the fence-off he reversed the results by defeating Jaeckel 3-1 and Kappen 3-0, while Jaeckel took second place by defeating Kappen 3-0.
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Individual Novice Sabre Competition—29 Entries—November 21st
Herbert Spector of C.C.N.Y. won first place in this competition at the Salle Santelli with the loss of only one bout in the finals and suffering that loss only after clinching first place. Harry Morganstern of St. John's University was second and his teammate Murray Kornfeld was third.
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Individual Open Foil Competition—Greco Trophy—35 Entries—November 25th
At one time there were 48 entries for this competition, but many of the ranking fencers withdrew from the competition when its size became known. This was prior to the announcement that there would be no endeavor to complete the contest in one long evening. Warren Dow of the New York Athletic Club won the competition for the fifth successive year on the strips at the Greco Fencing Academy. Having retired one Greco Trophy with 3 successive wins he now has two legs on the current trophy. He went through the competition undefeated while Arthur Tauber of N.Y.U. won second on touches after being tied in bouts won with Diaz Cetrulo of the Salle Santelli.
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All Eastern Intermediate Sabre Team Championship—Robert Stoll Trophy—3 Teams—December 1st
This, the first Championship of the season, attracted only three teams, apparently through the known strength of the teams entered. Three cadets from the U. S. Military Academy, fencing as the West Point Fencing Club team, outfought two of the toughest younger sabre teams in the East to win the Stoll Trophy and the Championship Gold Medals. The Columbia University team, defending Champions and Intercollegiate titleholders with this weapon, were the first to go down before this inspired Cadet team by a score of 5-2. The favored Salle Santelli team with three of the most experienced sabremen in this class next were defeated 5-4.
The West Point team was composed of Alan Rorick, Alan Stuck and Davison Dalziel, while Columbia was represented by James Welles, Gordon Wallis and Malcolm Barto and the Salle Santelli used Dr. James H. Flynn, W. Lada-Mocsarski and Dr. Paul Wiss (recently from Hungary).
The competition was held at the Columbia University Gymnasium.
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Individual Novice Epee Competition—22 Entries—December 2nd
The first novice epee competition to be held in the Metropolitan area produced three competitors of equal strength. These three were of such equal caliber that three fence-offs failed to break the tie after the completion of the final round. By that time the weary Boutts Committee decided to settle the matter by flipping a coin and by this unusual means Arthur Tauber of N.Y.U. received the gold medal. Rudolph Ozol of the Salle Santelli the silver medal and Murray Kornfeld of St. John's University the bronze.
This was the sixth competition of the still-young season to end in a triple tie for first place. It was held at the Salle Santelli.
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Women's Individual Prep Foil Competition—18 Entries—November 2nd
Miss Margaret Mackey, first girl representative of the Salle Cherny in an A.F.L.A. competition, won the gold medal in this, her first competition. Miss Diane Maginsky of Brooklyn College won second place and her teammate, Miss Ruth Bernat, won third. The competition took place at the Salle Santelli.
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Women's Individual Novice Foil Competition—19 Entries—November 4th
Miss Dorothy Kerfoot of the Foils Club won first place on the Salle Santelli strips after a fence-off with Miss Addie Bassi of the Aldo Nadi Studio. Having originally lost to Miss Bassi in the Finals, Miss Kerfoot reversed the previous result by winning the fence-off 4-1. Miss Grace Acel, fencing unattached, won her first A.F.L.A. medal by taking third.
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Individual Women's Open Foil Competition—Vince Trophy—39 Entries—November 19th
Coming through the finals undefeated, Miss Dorothy Grimmelman of the Salle Santelli won the gold award offered by Mr. Joseph Vince. Miss Madeline Dalton of the Salle d'Armes Vince and Mrs. Dolly Funke of the Greco Fencing Academy were tied for second but finished in that order on the basis of touches. The competition was held at the Salle Santelli.
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Individual Women's Junior Foil Competition—Dorothy Brown Locke Awards—25 Entries—December 3rd
Miss Helena Mroczkowska of Hofstra College, the only Junior to hold a National Ranking and the favored contestant in this competition, confirmed earlier forecasts by going through her 15 bouts undefeated. She was pressed to the limit in only her last bout with Miss Aida Principe of the Salle Mesne of Washington, D.C. Miss Principe ended tied for second place with Mrs. Rosemary Nadi of the Aldo Nadi Studio and these foilswomen received the second and third awards in that order on the basis of touches.
The competition was held at the Greco Fencing Academy.
