St. Louis
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St. Louis
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February 1941
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6
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15
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ST. LOUIS
St. Louis fencing, given added impetus by the big fencing center opened there in November, has started what promises to be one of its most successful years. Among the first of the prize competitions was the division’s three-weapon team championship, which went to La Septieme’s trio of Everett Dupen, Tracy Barnes and Roger Peterson by a one-touch margin over the Fencers Club. The runner-up team was composed of Alex Solomon, Lon Hocker, Jr., and Conway Briscoe. Two other three-man combinations—La Septieme seconds and a composite team—also competed.
Increased interest in the sport in St. Louis is indicated by the fact that 80 girls signed up for fencing at the local Y. W. C. A., and the weekly classes have attracted from 30 to 40 pupils. G. Harold Anthony and Ervilla Droll are the instructors.
Competitions in St. Louis at the turn of the year, results of which have not been received as we go to press, include a men’s prep foil individual, novice foil, epee and sabre team, and women’s prep foil.
Orest Meykar, long a fencing master of New Orleans, has transferred his activities to St. Louis and has been appointed director of the Fencing Center. His first public activity in St. Louis was the sponsorship of an invitation fencing tournament in the Coronado Hotel ballroom for the benefit of the Infantile Paralysis Fund on January 23. Included among the competitors were Carol King, Midwest women’s champion, Captain Fred Siebert, National epee title-holder, Lon Hocker, Jr., Midwest sabre champion, Tracy W. Barnes, Ervilla Droll, William Chiprin, and other leading fencers.
