A.F.L.A. Competitions in New York City
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A.F.L.A. Competitions in New York City
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April 1941
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A. F. L. A. COMPETITIONS IN NEW YORK CITY
The first men's senior event of the season, the Greco foil, was won by Nickolas Muray of the New York Athletic Club on January 12 at the Greco Fencing Academy. Wallace Goldsmith of the same club and Jose de Capriles of the Salle Santelli tied for second but finished in that order on a count of touches. There were 14 entries.
With Jose de Capriles fencing foil, Dr. Tibor Nyilas sabre, and Norman Lewis epee, the Salle Santelli dethroned the Fencers Club as holders of the Allaire Cup in three-weapon team competition at the New York A. C. on January 19. Figured solely on a basis of touches against, the competition was won by the Santelli team with a low total of 52. The defending champions, with Hugh V. Alessandroni fencing foil, Norman Armitage sabre, and Tracy Jaeckel and Robert Driscoll alternating at epee, took second with 56 touches against. The New York A. C.—Dr. John A. Huffman, foil; Ralph Marson, sabre; and Leo Nunes, epee—was third with 57. Seven teams competed.
Twenty contestants entered the Greco women’s Open Foil competition, held at the Greco Fencing Academy on January 26. Mrs. Dolly Funke of the home club, sweeping eleven of her twelve bouts in the preliminaries and final, won the Greco Trophy. Mrs. Jarmila Vokral of the Salle Herrmann, Philadelphia, finished second with a 4-1 record behind Mrs. Funke's undefeated parade on the final strip, while Mrs. Marion L. Vince of the Salle d'Armes Vince was third.
Robert Driscoll of the Fencers Club went through his bouts without defeat to win the senior individual epee on February 6 at the Saltus Club. Ralph Marson, New York A. C., took second over Pieter Mijer of the Salle Santelli in the field of five contestants.
Helena Mroczkowska of the Fencers Club, the national champion, won the Fish senior individual foil competition on February 19 at the Fencers Club. Madeline Dalton, Salle d'Armes Vince, finished second, with Maria Cerra of Vince third.
Sweeping its second straight team competition, the Salle Santelli "A" team took the Washington Square epee trophy at the N. Y. A. C. on February 22. With Jose de Capriles, Pieter Mijer and Miguel de Capriles fencing Nos. 1, 2, and 3 respectively, the winners scored eighteen victories, leading each strip with six. The New York A. C.'s "A" squad of Henrique Santos, Ralph Marson and Leo Nunes finished in a tie with the Fencers Club’s trio of Tracy Jaeckel, Alfred Skrobisch and Robert Driscoll with 15 points apiece. Santelli "B" was fourth with 14 and N. Y. A. C. "B" fifth with 13, in the field of nine teams.
Six of the country’s ranking sabre men and two internationalists were in the field of ten that entered the senior individual sabre competition at the Salle d’Armes Vince on February 25. Nickolas Muray of the N. Y. A. C., won the gold medal with a record of seven wins and two losses. Dr. Tibor Nyilas of the Salle Santelli, Dr. Norman Armitage of the Fencers Club, George Worth and Dean Cetrulo, both of the Salle Santelli, were tied for second with six wins apiece, but finished in that order on a count of touches.
Louis Mouquin of the Salle Santelli swept all of his matches against his three clubmates—Pieter Mijer, Frank Goodfellow and Enrique Berumen—and Dr. James Hamlin of the Saltus Club to win the veterans' individual three-weapon competition at the Greco Fencing Academy on March 11. The other competitors finished in the above mentioned order.
In a fence-off with Helena Mroczkowska, Fencers Club, after they had been deadlocked at the end of the regular competition with ten wins and one loss apiece, Mrs. Marion Vince of the Salle d'Armes Vince won the women’s open metropolitan individual foil championship at the Salle Santelli on March 15. Mrs. Vince triumphed 4-2 in the fence-off. Mrs. Jarmila Vokral of the Salle Herrmann, Philadelphia, was third, and Barbara Cochrane, Salle Santelli, fourth. There were eleven contestants in the championship.
The New York Athletic Club trio of Warren A. Dow, Dernell Every, and Silvio Giolito successfully defended its metropolitan open team foils championship on the Salle Santelli strips March 16. The winners lost only two bouts throughout the eight-team competition. The Salle Santelli "A" squad of Albert Axelrod, Dean Cetrulo, Jose de Capriles and Norman Lewis finished second and, with the winners, thereby qualified for the national championship. The New York A. C. and Santelli "B" teams were the other two teams to reach the final pool.
