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National Fencing Championships - Announcement
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May 1940
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NATIONAL FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS - ANNOUNCEMENT
The 1940 National Championships will already be in progress when this issue reaches you. We have endeavored to assemble as much preliminary information as possible but find that the Bout Committee is in a quandary as to the complete list of entries. Many fencers unfortunately neglect to submit personal entries, even so much as a postcard to the National organization, and then arrive at the competition with full equipment in the belief that through some mind-reading act their names have been properly entered. The National Bout Committee could, under the rules, debar all such individuals from competition but does not feel that such a cold-blooded attitude would solve the problem satisfactorily. It throws up its hands in despair and does the best it can, apologizing in advance for incomplete listing in preliminary programs.
We have been honored from time to time by the entry of foreign participants in our Championships. Representatives of Great Britain, France, Canada, and Italy have participated in the past. We are particularly pleased to announce the entry of several individuals and an epee team from Cuba into this year's Championships.
The 1940 National Championships will get underway on May 3rd with the Women's Foil Team Championship. This will be held at the Fencers Club at 7:30 P.M. The Salle d’Armes Vince, defending champions, will be represented by Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince, Miss Madeline Dalton, and the Misses Maria and Kathleen Cerra. The other teams are: The Salle Santelli, 1940 Metropolitan Champions, with Miss Barbara Cochrane, Miss Dorothy Grimmelmann, Miss Mildred Stewart, and Mrs. Dorothy de Capriles; and Hofstra College with Miss Helena Mroczkowska, Miss Dorothy Wahl, Miss Ruth Maxwell, and Miss Lela Joggi.
The Men's Championships will open at 2:00 P.M. on May 4th at the Fencers Club with the Individual Foil Championship. Norman Lewis, the defending Champion, and Jose R. de Capriles, both of the Salle Santelli, Hugh V. Alessandroni of the Fencers Club, Maxwell Garret and Nathaniel Lubell of the Salle d’Armes Vince, and four N.Y.A.C. foilsmen, Warren Dow, Dernell Every, Silvio Giolito, and Dr. John R. Huffman will compete from New York City. New Jersey will be represented by Diaz Cetrulo, Bernard Allen, Peter Milone, and Edward Lansing. Connecticut will be represented by Alfred Owre, Washington D.C. by Lt. Richard Steere, U.S.N., the Northern California Division by Alfred R. Snyder, Pacific Coast Foil Champion, and Philadelphia by Edward Mateosian, Philadelphia Foil Champion. Luis Barrenas of Cuba will be a foreign guest in the Championship.
On May 5th at the Salle Santelli, the Individual Epee Championship will be fought, according to original plans, with the electrical epee. Loyal Tingley of Illinois, defending Champion and winner of the recent Midwest Championship, will defend his National title. Three leading Cuban epeeists have submitted their entries: Eugenio Sardinas, Carlos Lamar Schweyer, and Eugenio Garate. From New York, there will be Jose and Miguel de Capriles of the Salle Santelli, Leo G. Nunes and Ralph E. Marson of the N.Y.A.C., and Alfred Skrobisch, Robert Driscoll, Winslow Cornett, and Norman C. Armitage of the Fencers Club. Philadelphia will be represented by Robert Agnew, New Jersey by Rudolph Ozol, Northern California by Alfred R. Snyder, and Illinois by Fred Seibert, James Corbett, and Charles Corbett. Lieutenant Commander Leonard Doughty plans to fly from the Pacific Coast to represent the Navy at Large. These matches will start at 2:00 P.M. and will be resumed after dinner at 8:30 P.M.
On May 6th the Individual Sabre Championship will be held at the New York Athletic Club. Norman Armitage, National Sabre Champion, will defend his title. Eugenio Garate and George Worth are entered from Cuba. Dr. John Huffman, Dr. Ervin Acel and Ralph Marson of the N.Y.A.C., Miguel and Jose de Capriles and Philip Lubart of the Salle Santelli, Irving Cantor of the Fencers Club and Peter Brudieu of the Salle d'Armes Vince will represent New York. New Jersey will be represented by Diaz Cetrulo, Dr. James Flynn, Rudolph Ozol and Charles Wilkes. The entries from the Pacific Coast and the Mid-West are not known at this writing. The matches will start at 7:30 P.M.
The Women's Foil Championship at the Fencers Club will be the only match in which the defending champion will not participate. Miss Helena Mayer, present titleholder, is still suffering from a leg injury which has kept her out of competition this year. This will leave the women with no outstanding favorite for the title and should cause keen competition among the women for the honor. New York will have Miss Barbara Cochrane and Miss Dorothy Grimmelmann from the Salle Santelli, Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince and Miss Madeline Dalton from the Salle d'Armes Vince, Mrs. Dolly Funke from the Greco Fencing Academy, and Miss Dorothy Kerfoot of the Foils Club. From Long Island, there will be Miss Mildred Stewart, Metropolitan Champion, Miss Helena Mroczkowska, Miss Dorothy Wahl, and Miss Ruth Maxwell. Mrs. Jermila Vokral has entered from Philadelphia, Miss Nellie Gordon from New England, Miss Claire McRoberts, Miss Josephine Mancinelli, and Miss Margaret Rosebault from New Jersey, Miss Carol King from Illinois, and Miss Maureene Fitz from Los Angeles.
The Foil Team Championship to be held at the Fencers Club on May 8th, will find the Salle Santelli with Jose de Capriles, Norman Lewis, Diaz Cetrulo, and Albert Axelrod defending its title against its perennial opponents, the New York Athletic Club, with Warren Dow, Dernell Every, Silvio Giolito, and Dr. John Huffman endeavoring to repeat their victory of the Metropolitan Championships. A third team from the Illinois Division has been entered, but the members of the team have not yet been announced.
The Epee Team Championship at the Salle Santelli on May 9th will find the favored team coming from Cuba: Eugenio Sardinas, Carlos Lamar Schweyer, and Eugenio Garate. The defending champions, the Fencers Club, will have Tracy Jaeckel, Lt. Gustave M. Heiss, Alfred Skrobisch, and Robert Driscoll. The Salle Santelli will have Miguel and Jose de Capriles, Norman Lewis, and Kevis Kapner. The fourth team will be last year's runner-up, the Illinois Division, with Loyal Tingley, Fred Seibert, and Charles and James Corbett. The matches will start at 7:30 P.M.
The Sabre Team Championship will be held at the New York Athletic Club on May 10th. The defending champions, the N.Y.A.C., will have Dr. John R. Huffman, Ralph E. Marson, Nickolas Muray, and Dr. Ervin Acel. The Salle Santelli will be represented by Miguel and Jose de Capriles, Diaz Cetrulo, and Philip Lubart. Cuba has entered George Worth, Eugenio Garate, and Ricardo Hernandez. Illinois has not yet announced the lineup for its team. These matches will start at 7:00 P.M. in order not to delay the starting of the Gala Party and Dance immediately following.
Upon completion of the Sabre Team Championships, the fencers and guests will retire to the Main Dining Room of the New York Athletic Club, for the annual Gala Night and A.F.L.A. Ball. Fencing entertainment will be provided with a few special exhibitions in which it is hoped that our Cuban guests may participate. It is also hoped that the new electrical foils as invented and developed by Bela and Joanna de Tuscan of Detroit may be exhibited. The complete program has not been announced as to amateur and professional participants.
A presentation of Trophies and National Championship medals by the A.F.L.A. President, Harold Van Buskirk, will follow the exhibitions and the evening will be completed with the formal supper dance which annually marks the end of the official fencing season.
