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All Eastern Championships
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April 1941
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ALL EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIPS
After advancing to the final round only on a count of touches, the Salle Santelli team of Grace Acel, Mary Ann Harris, and Grace Uhthoff captured the women’s all-eastern intermediate team foil championship at the Fencers Club on January 31. In the deciding pool, they swept their matches with the Foils Club, Hofstra College, and Salle d’Armes Vince, who finished in that order.
Eliminated in the preliminary rounds were the New York University team and a composite trio.
For the second successive year, the final pool of the men’s all-eastern intermediate foil team competition, held at the Salle Santelli on February 2, ended in a three-way tie. This year the deadlocked contestants were the Santelli team of Dean Cetrulo, Albert Axelrod, and Austin Prokop, the New York A. C. combination of Wallace Goldsmith, Silvio Giolito, and Rudolph Ozol, and the Saltus Club trio of Theodore Green, Nino Maniaci, and Walter White. All three teams were successful in defeating New York University, the fourth finalist, but the Santelli combination lost to Saltus, Saltus bowed to the N. Y. A. C., and the A. C. trio fell before Santelli.
Seven teams originally entered the championships, with Philadelphia Fencers Club, N. Y. U. “B” squad, and Columbia University bowing out in the preliminaries.
Going through the four-team final pool without defeat, the New York Athletic Club team of Wallace H. Goldsmith, Rudolph Ozol, and Dr. James Flynn took the all-eastern intermediate épée team title on February 9 at the Salle Santelli. Finishing behind the winners were the New York University team of Kane, Gross, and Tauber, which bowed only to the winners. The Saltus Club trio and the Salle Santelli team completed the final pool. Eliminated on preliminary strips were Columbia, the Fencers Club, and N. Y. U. "B".
Dorothy Lancaster of the Fencers Club was the winner in the women’s all-eastern intermediate individual foils, taking the gold medal in a fence-off with Aida Prencipe of the Salle Messineo, Washington, in the finals held at the Fencers Club on February 14. Third place went to Elizabeth Bruskin, unattached, over Mary Ann Harris, Salle Santelli, Dorothy Wahl, Fencers Club, and Dorothy Kerfoot, Foils Club, who finished in that order in the final pool.
The Salle Santelli combination of Jack Gorlin, Norman Lewis, Douglas Gerard, and Paul Kirschner swept through the five-team finals of the all-eastern intermediate sabre championship on February 16 at the Fencers Club with the loss of only seven bouts to take the title.
City College of New York, with Neil Lazar, Herbert Spector, and Martin Mendelson, and New York University, with Peter Tishman, Sol Gorlin, and Anthony Lombardo, were tied for second in the unfinished finals with one loss apiece. Columbia University and the Saltus Club were the other entrants.
A triple fence-off that threatened to set an all-time record for deadlocks featured the final round of the men’s all-eastern individual intermediate foil championship at the Greco Fencing Academy on February 23. Dean Cetrulo and Albert Axelrod, both of Salle Santelli, and Nathaniel Lubell of Salle Vince finished the regular competition with eight wins and two losses apiece, but it took three additional fence-offs and another hour of competition to decide the winner. Cetrulo finally defeated both adversaries to win the gold medal, with Axelrod second and Lubell third.
Arthur Tauber of New York University, who outpointed all three of the medalists but dropped three other bouts, finished fourth in the field of eleven, with Ralph Leiderman and Joseph Rabb, both of Greco, fifth and sixth.
Dropping only two bouts in a field of nine, Arthur Tauber of N. Y. U. entered the senior épée ranks by winning the all-eastern intermediate épée title at the Salle d’Armes Vince on March 2. John Bech, unattached, Henrique Santos of the New York Athletic Club, and Wallace Goldsmith, N. Y. A. C., were deadlocked for second place with five wins apiece, but finished in that order on a count of touches.
The final all-eastern championship to be contested was the individual sabre, held at the Fencers Club on March 9. Douglas Gerard of the Salle Santelli swept all his bouts in the six-man field to win the title, with Jack Gorlin, also of Santelli, in the runner-up position and Herbert Spector of C. C. N. Y. third. Rudolph Ozol of the N. Y. A. C., Anthony Lombardo of N. Y. U., and Paul Kirschner of the Salle Santelli finished in that order behind the medal winners.
