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Texas
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January 1940
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TEXAS
On January 13th, The Fencers’ Club held the first fencing tournament ever seen in San Antonio. The tournament was conducted in afternoon and evening sessions in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium. There were Novice, Junior, and Senior matches in foil for both men and women and Open Sabre and Epee competition for men. Thirty-eight contestants participated.
The winners in the various contests were:
Men’s Novice Foil - Lonial Schwan, Y.M.C.A.
Women’s Novice Foil - Miss Donna Saylor, Salle d’Armes Heard
Men’s Junior Foil - Jack Palmer, Salle d’Armes Heard
Women’s Junior Foil - Miss Shirley Arcucci, Our Lady of the Lake College
Men’s Senior Foil - Jose San Martin, Y.M.C.A.
Women’s Senior Foil - Miss Margaret Callan, Salle d’Armes Heard
Open Sabre Competition - Gordon Beitle, Salle d’Armes Heard
Open Epee Competition - Howard Bush Jr., Salle d’Armes Heard
Eight gold medals were contributed by a local store for the winners. Mr. Charles Heard, professional, awarded a fencing statue for best form to Miss Margaret Callan. The San Antonio newspapers had given good publicity to the tournament, and some 250 people attended the two sessions. Lieutenants Taber, Chavasse, Kieffer, Jacobie, and Manzo, U.S.A., recently of West Point, served as Directors and Judges. The tournament was acclaimed a success, and it is now planned to make it an annual affair.
Several matches have already been held in the Southwestern Fencing League. The Galveston Anicos defeated the A.&M. College team (men) 8-7. The Los Verdugos Club of Fort Worth defeated the North Texas Agricultural College by the same score. These matches are fought in five bouts in each weapon. Winners by weapon enter the February matches directly; losers by weapon enter the January consolation matches. The Galveston Anicos will enter the February matches in sabre and epee; A.&M. College will enter in foil; Los Verdugos in foil and sabre, and North Texas Agricultural College in epee.
By no means have the girls of the Southwestern Fencing League been idle. Last year’s champions, El Florete Fencing Club, defeated the Royal Assassins 5-0 in Fort Worth. The Dallas Women’s Fencing Club defeated the Southern Methodist University girls 3-2, the latter girls suffering another defeat later by the same score from the North Texas Agricultural College girls at Arlington.
An interesting round-robin meet was held on December 16th and 17th at Dallas among teams from the Dallas “Y,” Baylor University, and Southern Methodist University in all three weapons. Unfortunately, we have not received the scores of this round-robin.
