St. Louis
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St. Louis
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April 1940
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ST. LOUIS
Tracy Barnes of La Septième reversed the tables on Alex Solomon of the Fencers Club by winning the St. Louis Foil Championship on February 10th at the Adult Study Center. Solomon had been first the year before with Barnes second. George Curtis of Washington University was third on touches over William Chiprin of the Fencers Club. There were eight contestants.
Unusual features of the evening were that all bouts except a final fence-off between Barnes and Solomon were fought for four touches. Four of the eight contestants were southpaws. Dr. Tibor Nyilas challenged Barnes after the competition and made good in his challenge with a 5-3 win.
At the conclusion of the finals of the Novice Sabre competition on January 20th, Ernest Haring and John Gast of the Salle d’Armes Vical, and George Curtis of Washington University were tied for first place. The tie remained unchanged after the first round-robin fence-off. The tie was broken in the second fence-off with Haring, Curtis, and Gast taking first, second, and third respectively.
Six teams of girls entered the Novice Foil Team Competition. The Salle d’Armes Vical team of Lucille Haenni, Edna Gustavson, and Lorraine Yaeger defeated the Ozark Fencers Club team of Vera Martin, Dorothy Kickham, and Gertrude Michael 5-1 in the Finals. The Ozark team had defeated the Vical team in the preliminary round but was unable to repeat this performance in the Finals.
A composite team composed of George Beckman in epee, George Langenberg in foil, and Tracy Barnes in sabre won the Novice Three Weapon Team Competition on January 27th. There were five teams in the contest. The Imperial Fencing Club team of Becker (epee), Kunderman (foil), and Liebmann (sabre) was second.
The Novice Sabre Team Competition was won by the La Septième team of Brooking, Knight, and Peterson in a 5-3 second-night fence-off against the Imperial team of John Kunderman, William Becker, and Les Liebmann.
The Foil Team Championship on February 3rd again saw the Fencers Club team walk away with an easy victory. The Fencers Club team of Alex Solomon, William Chiprin, and Connie Briscoe discouraged other team entries, there being only two other teams in this competition. The Fencers Club defeated the Vicals 5-0 and the Composite team 5-1.
The La Septième Epee Team of Tracy Barnes, James Knight, and Alan Beck won the Team Championship on February 17th in an unexpected turnabout after a disastrous start. There were three teams in the Championship. The La Septième team was defeated 5-0 in the opening encounter with the Fencers Club team of Alex Solomon, Connie Briscoe, and Lawrence Gregory. La Septième then defeated the Salle d’Armes Vical team of Hardin Walsh, Charles Morgan, and Edward Maher 5-0. After these results, the Fencers Club were top-heavy favorites against the Vical team, but the Vicals achieved a 5-1 upset over them. A three-way tie resulted. The final bouts between La Septième and the Fencers Club were very close, with the bout scores going to 4-4 before La Septième broke through with the winning bout.
