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Editorial
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October 1940
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EDITORIAL
The new fencing season is about to start. Schools and colleges have just opened to pupils who will find themselves learning to fence for the first time. The fencing clubs and salle d’armes have taken on renewed activity with a certain proportion of new pupils. The Riposte wishes at this time to extend a word of welcome to all of these new fencers. May they find the pleasure in fencing that fencers have found for centuries past. May their desires for an expression of true sportsmanship and for the ability to excel athletically in man to man contest be gratified.
Unused muscles ache from the “on guard” and “lunge” positions. Wrists are lame from the counters of quarte and sixte. Feet are sore from the marches and lunges. Do you stop to wonder if the sport is worth its early season pains? Ask your fencing teacher, the older fencers or The Riposte. It is well worth it. A thousand times over. You have entered into FENCING, the King of Sports, and will be well repaid later for your aches and pains of the present.
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The Riposte depends upon letters of friends from all parts of the country for the fencing news of those parts. Perhaps your section does not receive news coverage. This can easily be corrected. Write us the news yourself or recommend some friend to us so that we may contact him and request his cooperation. We are always glad to print fencing news. Do not worry about its form. Submit the facts in as much detail as possible and our Staff will worry about rewriting it for publication.
Don’t let your locality be ignored. See that it has a contributor who will keep us advised, thereby assuring publicity for your local fencers and giving the country at large a means of including you in the larger picture which makes up American fencing as we have come to know and appreciate it.
