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The National Team Championships
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July 1940
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THE NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
SALLE SANTELLI WINS EPEE AND THE MEN'S AND WOMEN'S FOIL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
N.Y.A.C. RETAINS SABRE TEAM TITLE
Apparently not satisfied with only two of the five National Team Championships which it had held in 1939, the Salle Santelli presented its challenge cards very seriously in all weapons this season and came away from the Gala Week, having successfully retained its Foil Team title, captured the Epee Team title from the Fencers Club and the Women's Foil Team title from the Salle d'Armes Vince. The New York Athletic Club was all that stood between the Salle Santelli and a clean sweep of the Team titles, for the N. Y. A. C. successfully defended its Sabre Team title in the final competition of the Gala Week and had already captured the Three Weapon Team Championship from the Salle Santelli on April 7th.
Eighteen teams with 59 competitors entered the four team championships of the Gala Week. Exactly 200 official bouts were fought to decide the winning teams.
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National Women's Foil Team Championship
New York Fencers Club May 3rd
Although there were only three teams entered in this opening event of the 1940 National Championship Gala Week, several exciting upsets and surprises were provided to hold the tense interest of the spectators throughout the evening.
The Salle Santelli team made up of Miss Barbara Cochrane, Miss Dorothy Grimmelmann and Miss Mildred Stewart and the Salle d'Armes Vince team of Miss Kathleen Cerra, Miss Madeline Dalton and Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince defeated the Hofstra College team of Miss Ruth Maxwell, Miss Helena Mroczkowska and Miss Dorothy Wahl by one-sided scores in the first two matches to meet in their usual last and deciding Championship match at the end of the evening.
In this Final match, the Salle d'Armes Vince started off with what appeared like a repetition of its successes of the past 10 years. It jumped into a 4-1 lead which included an upset victory by Miss Kathleen Cerra over Miss Dorothy Grimmelmann. Miss Kathleen was substituting that evening for Maria, her more experienced sister, who was seriously ill with a streptococcus infection. Miss Dalton had defeated Miss Grimmelmann earlier, while Mrs. Vince had downed both Miss Stewart and Miss Cochrane who held the lead positions on the Santelli team. The Santelli team had to win all four remaining bouts to break the Vince reign; a large assignment which included Miss Grimmelmann's defeating Mrs. Vince, who had suffered no losses thus far in the Championship. That, however, is exactly what the Santelli team accomplished in a long up-hill fight, which kept the spectators in constant excitement and a state of unbelief throughout the Final match.
SUMMARIES
Contestants:
Salle Santelli: Miss Barbara Cochrane, Miss Dorothy Grimmelmann and Miss Mildred Stewart.
Salle d'Armes Vince: Miss Kathleen Cerra, Miss Madeline Dalton and Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince.
Hofstra College: Miss Ruth Maxwell, Miss Helena Mroczkowska and Miss Dorothy Wahl.
Salle Santelli 5 - Hofstra College 1
Miss Grimmelmann defeated Miss Wahl 4-1.
Miss Stewart defeated Miss Maxwell 4-0 and Miss Wahl 4-3.
Miss Cochrane defeated Miss Mroczkowska 4-3 and Miss Maxwell 4-1.
Miss Mroczkowska defeated Miss Grimmelmann 4-2.
Salle d'Armes Vince 5 - Hofstra College 2
Miss Dalton defeated Miss Maxwell 4-2.
Miss Cerra defeated Miss Wahl 4-1.
Mrs. Vince defeated Miss Mroczkowska 4-1, Miss Wahl 4-1 and Miss Maxwell 4-1.
Miss Mroczkowska defeated Miss Dalton 4-0 and Miss Cerra 4-0.
Salle Santelli 5 - Salle d'Armes Vince 4
Miss Grimmelmann defeated Mrs. Vince 4-3.
Miss Stewart defeated Miss Cerra 4-0 and Miss Dalton 4-1.
Miss Cochrane defeated Miss Cerra 4-2 and Miss Dalton 4-2.
Miss Dalton defeated Miss Grimmelmann 4-3.
Miss Cerra defeated Miss Grimmelmann 4-2.
Mrs. Vince defeated Miss Cochrane 4-1 and Miss Stewart 4-3.
FINAL STANDINGS
Team | Won | Lost
Salle Santelli | 2 | 0
Salle d'Armes Vince | 1 | 1
Hofstra College | 0 | 2
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NATIONAL FOIL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
New York Fencers Club—May 8th
The Salle Santelli successfully defended the title they have held for the past four years when they out-fought and routed a supposedly unbeatable N.Y.A.C. team by a 5-1 score. This duplicated their feat of last year at San Francisco when they defeated the same team with the identical score. The N.Y.A.C., with four of the first five finalists of the individual championship, was forecast to win with little effort and apparently this was the cause of drawing the smallest audience of the championship matches. However, the fans who did come were given a treat in seeing the biggest upset of the tournament, again proving that competitions are won on the fencing strip and not on paper.
The other two teams in the competition, the Sword Club of Philadelphia and the Michigan Division team, were unable to cope with the two leaders and were easily outclassed in the early matches.
SUMMARIES
Contestants:
Salle Santelli—Albert Axelrod, Jose de Capriles, Diaz Cetrulo and Norman Lewis.
N. Y. A. C.—Warren Dow, Dernell Every, Silvio Giolito and John Huffman.
Michigan Division—William Hammond, Harold Mottershaw and William Osis.
Sword Club of Philadelphia—Dana Allen, Edward Mateosian and Philip Shakespeare.
Salle Santelli 5 - Michigan Division 1
Lewis defeated Osis 5-1 and Mottershaw 5-2.
Axelrod defeated Mottershaw 5-1 and Hammond 5-4.
De Capriles defeated Osis 5-4.
Hammond defeated De Capriles 5-2.
N. Y. A. C. 5 - Sword Club of Philadelphia 0
Giolito defeated Mateosian 5-2 and Allen 5-2.
Huffman defeated Allen 5-2 and Shakespeare 5-3.
Every defeated Shakespeare 5-4.
Salle Santelli 5 - Sword Club of Philadelphia 0
Lewis defeated Mateosian 5-2 and Allen 5-3.
Cetrulo defeated Allen 5-3 and Shakespeare 5-0.
De Capriles defeated Shakespeare 5-4.
N. Y. A. C. 5 - Michigan Division 0
Dow defeated Hammond 5-1 and Osis 5-2.
Every defeated Osis 5-1 and Mottershaw 5-3.
Giolito defeated Mottershaw 5-1.
Salle Santelli 5 - N. Y. A. C. 1
Cetrulo defeated Huffman 5-4.
De Capriles defeated Every 5-4 and Dow 5-4.
Lewis defeated Huffman 5-4 and Every 5-2.
Dow defeated Cetrulo 5-2.
FINAL STANDINGS
Team | Won | Lost
Salle Santelli | 3 | 0
N. Y. A. C. | 2 | 1
Sword Club | 0 | 2
Michigan Division | 0 | 2
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NATIONAL EPEE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The Salle Santelli—May 9th
The Salle Santelli won the Epee Team Championship on their home strips in the closest team competition of the Gala Week. With five of the six teams entered shuffling the lead back and forth among them, the Championship was not decided until the conclusion of the last round of matches and six hours of fencing. The winning team, made up of Jose and Miguel de Capriles and Norman Lewis, won four of their five matches, while the Cuban team, the team from the Illinois Division, and the Fencers Club team, the defending Champions, each won three of their five matches. They finished officially in that order on the basis of number of bouts won. The team from the Southern California Division won two matches for fifth place, being the only team to defeat the Salle Santelli trio. The team from the Michigan Division was sixth.
SUMMARIES
Contestants:
Salle Santelli—Jose de Capriles, Miguel de Capriles and Norman Lewis.
Cuba—Eugenio Garate, Carlos Lamar and Eugenio Sardina.
Illinois—Fred Siebert, Loyal Tingley and Frank Righeimer.
Fencers Club—Norman Armitage, Lt. Gustave Heiss, Alfred Skrobisch and August Von Munchhausen.
Southern California Division—Commdr. Leonard Doughty, Fred Linkmeyer and Curtis Rice.
Michigan Division—Harold Mottershaw, William Osis and Roland Rogers.
Salle Santelli 5 - Michigan Division 0
Lewis defeated Mottershaw 3-1 and Rogers 3-2.
M. de Capriles defeated Rogers 3-1 and Osis 3-2.
J. de Capriles defeated Osis 3-1.
Salle Santelli 5 - Fencers Club 2
Lewis defeated Skrobisch 3-2 and Armitage 3-1.
J. de Capriles defeated Skrobisch 3-0.
M. de Capriles defeated Skrobisch 3-1 and Armitage 3-0.
Heiss defeated J. de Capriles 3-2 and M. de Capriles 3-2.
Salle Santelli 5 - Cuba 3
J. de Capriles defeated Lamar 3-1 and Sardina 3-2.
Lewis defeated Lamar 3-2 and Garate 3-2.
M. de Capriles defeated Lamar 3-2.
Sardina defeated Lewis 3-2.
Garate defeated J. de Capriles 3-2 and M. de Capriles 3-1.
Salle Santelli 5 - Illinois 0
Lewis defeated Righeimer 3-1.
J. de Capriles defeated Righeimer 3-2 and Siebert 3-2.
M. de Capriles defeated Siebert 3-1 and Tingley 3-0.
Cuba 5 - Illinois 3
(1 bout double loss)
Lamar defeated Righeimer 3-1, Tingley 3-0 and double lossed with Siebert 3-3.
Sardina defeated Righeimer 3-2 and Tingley 3-2.
Garate defeated Righeimer 3-2.
Siebert defeated Sardina 3-1, Garate 3-2 and double lossed with Lamar 3-3.
Tingley defeated Garate 3-1
Cuba 5 — Southern California 4
Lamar defeated Linkmeyer 3-1 and Doughty 3-0.
Sardina defeated Linkmeyer 3-1 and Doughty 3-2.
Garate defeated Doughty 3-1.
Rice defeated Lamar 3-2, Sardina 3-0 and Garate 3-2.
Linkmeyer defeated Garate 3-0.
Cuba 5 — Michigan 2
Lamar defeated Rogers 3-1 and Osis 3-1.
Sardina defeated Rogers 3-1 and Osis 3-1.
Garate defeated Mottershaw 3-1.
Mottershaw defeated Lamar 3-2.
Osis defeated Garate 3-1.
Illinois 5 — Michigan 0
Righeimer defeated Mottershaw 3-2 and Rogers 3-0.
Siebert defeated Rogers 3-1 and Osis 3-1.
Tingley defeated Osis 3-0.
Illinois 5 — Southern California 4
Righeimer defeated Doughty 3-1.
Siebert defeated Rice 3-1.
Tingley defeated Linkmeyer 3-1, Doughty 3-0 and Rice 3-0.
Doughty defeated Siebert 3-0.
Rice defeated Righeimer 3-0.
Illinois 5 — Fencers Club 1
Righeimer defeated Armitage 3-2.
Siebert defeated Armitage 3-1 and Von Munchhausen 3-1.
Tingley defeated Von Munchhausen 3-1 and Heiss 3-2.
Von Munchhausen defeated Righeimer 3-2.
Fencers Club 5 — Southern California 3
Skrobisch defeated Doughty 3-1 and Rice 3-2.
Heiss defeated Linkmeyer 3-2 and Doughty 3-2.
Armitage defeated Linkmeyer 3-1.
Garate defeated Heiss 3-2 and Armitage 3-0.
Linkmeyer defeated Skrobisch 3-1.
Fencers Club 5 — Cuba 3
Skrobisch defeated Lamar 3-2 and Sardina 3-2.
Heiss defeated Lamar 3-0.
Armitage defeated Lamar 3-1 and Garate 3-0.
Sardina defeated Heiss 3-2.
Garate defeated Skrobisch 3-1.
Fencers Club 5 — Michigan 1
Heiss defeated Mottershaw 3-1 and Rogers 3-1.
Skrobisch defeated Mottershaw 3-2 and Osis 3-0.
Von Munchhausen defeated Osis 3-0.
Rogers defeated Von Munchhausen 3-2.
Southern California 5 — Salle Santelli 3
Linkmeyer defeated M. de Capriles 3-1 and J. de Capriles 3-1.
Doughty defeated Lewis 3-1.
Rice defeated M. de Capriles 3-1 and J. de Capriles 3-1.
Lewis defeated Linkmeyer 3-2 and Rice 3-2.
M. de Capriles defeated Doughty 3-2.
Southern California 5 — Michigan 2
Linkmeyer defeated Mottershaw 3-1, Rogers 3-0 and Osis 3-1.
Rice defeated Rogers 3-2.
Doughty defeated Mottershaw 3-1.
Osis defeated Rice 3-1 and Doughty 3-1.
FINAL STANDING
Team | Won | Lost
Salle Santelli | 4 | 1
Cuba | 3 | 2
Illinois | 3 | 2
Fencers Club | 3 | 2
Southern California | 2 | 3
Michigan | 0 | 5
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NATIONAL SABRE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
New York Athletic Club—May 10th
With this team championship conducted just prior to the Gala Night and concluding the full series of competitions, it naturally attracted the largest group of spectators of the Championship week. The formal evening attire in contrast to the white uniforms of the competitors; the presence of the Cuban National team and the cadet team of the West Point Fencers Club all added color to these concluding matches.
The Sabre team of the New York Athletic Club which has dominated team competitions in this weapon for many years added one more title to its string of sabre championships. Again, as in recent years, the Salle Santelli team was the leading challenger and the 5-2 match between these perennial opponents concluded the evening’s fencing. The Cuban team took 3rd place officially, despite the fact that an ankle injury during the N.Y.A.C.-Cuba match forced Ricardo Hernandez to default 6 later bouts. The West Point Fencers Club was fourth and the Michigan Division was fifth.
Summaries
Contestants:
N. Y. A. C.—Ervin Acel, John Huffman, Ralph Marson and Nickolas Muray.
Salle Santelli—Jose de Capriles, Miguel de Capriles, Diaz Cetrulo and Philip Lubart.
Cuba—Ricardo Hernandez, Eugenio Garate and George Worth.
West Point Fencers Club—Davidson Dalziel, Alan Rorick and Alan Strock.
Michigan Division—William Hammond, Harold Mottershaw and William Osis.
N. Y. A. C. 5 — Michigan Division 1
Muray defeated Hammond 5-3 and Mottershaw 5-1.
Acel defeated Mottershaw 5-4.
Marson defeated Hammond 5-2 and Osis 5-4.
Osis defeated Acel 5-3.
Salle Santelli 5 — West Point Fencers Club 2
Cetrulo defeated Dalziel 5-2 and Rorick 5-3.
J. de Capriles defeated Rorick 5-4.
M. de Capriles defeated Dalziel 5-1 and Rorick 5-3.
Strock defeated Cetrulo 5-2 and J. de Capriles 5-4.
Salle Santelli 5 — Cuba 2
Cetrulo defeated Hernandez 5-1.
J. de Capriles defeated Garate 5-3.
M. de Capriles defeated Worth 5-2, Garate 5-3 and Hernandez 5-2.
Worth defeated Cetrulo 5-1 and J. de Capriles 5-4.
N. Y. A. C. 5 — West Point Fencers Club 0
Marson defeated Dalziel 5-2 and Strock 5-2.
Acel defeated Strock 5-3 and Rorick 5-4.
Huffman defeated Rorick 5-1.
Salle Santelli 5 — Michigan Division 1
Cetrulo defeated Hammond 5-1 and Mottershaw 5-4.
Lubart defeated Mottershaw 5-1.
M. de Capriles defeated Hammond 5-0 and Osis 5-2.
Osis defeated Lubart 5-2.
Cuba 5 — West Point Fencers Club 3
Worth defeated Dalziel 5-2, Rorick 5-3 and Strock 5-3.
Garate defeated Rorick 5-3 and Strock 5-3.
Hernandez defaulted all bouts.
N. Y. A. C. 5 — Cuba 3
Marson defeated Worth 5-3 and Garate 5-2.
Hernandez defaulted three bouts.
Worth defeated Muray 5-3 and Huffman 5-3.
Garate defeated Muray 5-2.
West Point Fencers Club 5 — Michigan Division 2
Rorick defeated Hammond 5-4, Mottershaw 5-2 and Osis 5-0.
Strock defeated Mottershaw 5-4.
Dalziel defeated Hammond 5-4.
Osis defeated Strock 5-2 and Dalziel 5-3.
N. Y. A. C. 5 — Salle Santelli 2
Marson defeated Cetrulo 5-3 and M. de Capriles 5-4.
Muray defeated J. de Capriles 5-3.
Huffman defeated Cetrulo 5-3 and M. de Capriles 5-3.
J. de Capriles defeated Marson 5-3.
M. de Capriles defeated Muray 5-4.
FINAL STANDING
Team | Won | Lost
N. Y. A. C. | 4 | 0
Salle Santelli | 3 | 1
Cuba | 1 | 2
West Point Fencers Club | 1 | 2
Michigan Division | 0 | 3
