Kansas
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Kansas
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April 1941
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6
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2
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10
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KANSAS
The Officers Club of the Fort Riley Army Post has voted to accept fencing as a club activity, and has already engaged in its first competition, a dual meet with the University of Kansas on March 9. The University squad won the foil competition, 7-2, but the Army men retaliated with a 7-2 win in épée. The University women's team defeated the women's combination from Fort Riley, 7-2.
Fencing at Fort Riley is under the direction of Col. Cairns, former member of West Point and New York Fencers Club teams.
In its first varsity match since the introduction of the sport there, the University of Oklahoma was defeated by St. John's Military School of Salina, Kansas, 9-7.
A series of classes and a group for competition has been formed at the Kansas City Athletic Club under the direction of James H. Raport, coach at the University of Kansas. Other groups sponsoring fencing teams in the vicinity are: Friends University of Wichita, Lightning Foils of Wichita, Wichita Y.M.C.A., Kansas City University, Iowa State College of Ames.
