-
Title
-
Illinois
-
Date
-
December 1940
-
volume
-
5
-
issue
-
6
-
page start
-
15
-
page end
-
15
-
content
-
en
ILLINOIS
Participation of a large group of Chicago fencers in the Sports Show staged at the Chicago Arena on September 21–29 was one of the major features of the fall season for the Illinois division.
Included among the troupe that participated in 13 performances during the Show were Eugene C. Williams, former midwest saber champion; Arthur Todd, ex-state saber champion; Jerry Mau, present state foil champion; and Norman McIntosh, all of the Edgewater Fencing Club; Sylvia Mikkelson, Dick Rodiesack and Ed Trier of the Northwest Fencing Club; A. R. Mulligan and Shirley Haffercamp of North Park College, and a group of several junior fencers.
Spotted number five in the Sports Show program, the group made an instantaneous hit with the spectators. After a series of short saber bouts and foil demonstrations, Eugene Williams and Jerry Mau showed their saber skill with a dramatic, maskless duel that climaxed the presentation.
The University of Illinois, which last spring had planned to drop fencing, reinstated the sport at the beginning of the fall semester. The University’s coach will be Maxwell Garrett, recent amateur, who placed ninth in the last National Foils Championship.
A new organization—the Evanston Fencing Club—will become active in Evanston this season under the guidance of Dr. Henry Zettleman, coach at Northwestern University.
Fencing his way through the final pool without defeat, Oscar Barab of the Hermanson Fencing School retained his open foil championship in the Illinois division’s opening meet at the Lake Shore Club in Chicago, October 27.
Second place went to Tully Friedman of Northwestern University, who lost only to Barab, and third to Charles Corbett, of the Hermanson School, who was defeated only by the two other medalists.
Maryalice von Wesche, of the Hermanson School, won the undefeated title in the open women’s foil meet run coincidentally with the men’s foil, sweeping all her five bouts. Miss Dorothy Ingram took second place with a record of four wins and one loss, and Miss Jane Wilson was third with a 3-2 score. All the six entries in the competition represented the Hermanson Fencing School.
Loyal Tingley, the country’s third ranking epee fencer, defeated Fred Siebert, the national champion, 3-2, to win the Illinois division open epee title at the Lake Shore Club on November 3. Tingley, representing the Hermanson Fencing School, went through the six-man round robin without defeat, while Siebert, after losing his crucial bout to Tingley, dropped a second decision to his Lake Shore Club teammate, Warren Huguelet, who took third place.
Strict enforcement of the rule that contestants must be on time for a competition limited the field in the Illinois division’s open sabre meet the same day to four. Joseph Molkup, University of Chicago, took the gold medal ahead of Zidack, of the Hermanson School, Walter Eisen and William Sheets, who finished in that order.
Ten fencers entered the prep foil competition sponsored by the Illinois division at the Bartlett Gymnasium, Chicago, on November 10. Gordon Groh, representing New Trier High School, won first place with a record of four wins and one loss, with Wiley and Herter, representing the Senn High School Fencing Club, taking second and third prizes, respectively.
Arthur Cohn of Hyde Park High School defeated Floyd Traynham, Jr., of the Hermanson Fencing School 5-4 in a fence-off for the Illinois Junior Foil Championship after each had tied with 3 victories and 1 loss apiece in the five-man Finals. There were 23 entries in the competition which took place on November 17th at Chicago University’s Bartlett Gymnasium. Leon Strauss of Hyde Park High School was third.
The Lake Shore Athletic Club team of Frank Righeimer, Jr., Campbell Wilson and Armand Stella won the Walnut Cup in senior men’s foil over a field of nine teams at the Lake Shore Club in Chicago on November 24.
The high point of the meet was the final round match between the Lake Shore trio and the Hermanson Fencing School team composed of Loyal Tingley, Oscar Barab, and Tully Friedman. After a series of spectacular and bitterly contested bouts, the Hermanson team was finally defeated, 5-3.
A St. Louis team, composed of the Misses Carol King, Ervilla Droll and Lucille Haenni, won the Illinois division’s women’s senior foil team meet at the Lake Shore Club on November 24. They defeated two teams from the University of Chicago and a team representing the Lake Shore Club to come through the round robin undefeated.
The University of Chicago “A” team, composed of the Misses Dorothy Ingram, Maryalice von Wesche and Mary Elizabeth Grenander was second, losing only to the St. Louis group.
[Caption]
Capt. Hanns Fischer of the North Shore Fencing Academy in Chicago, Illinois. — Adv.
-
depicts
-
Photograph : "Capt. Hanns Fischer of the North Shore Fencing Academy in Chicago, Illinois. — Adv."
