Northern California
Item
-
Title
-
Northern California
-
Date
-
April 1941
-
volume
-
6
-
issue
-
2
-
page start
-
16
-
page end
-
16
-
content
-
en
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Georges Bourgoin, well known in West Coast fencing ten years ago and since that time a resident of France, began his American comeback on February 7 by winning a Northern California novice sabre competition. Competing for the Oakland Fencing Club, he swept all five bouts on the final strip. Ed Houser of the Funke Fencing Academy was second, and Victor Vari of the G G 5 took third place over Noel Spiess, University of California, on a count of touches. There were 16 entries.
Jack Hovick, University of California, defeated his teammate, Noel Spiess, in a fence-off for first place to win the division’s novice epee competition at the Olympic Club on February 10. Jack Boyd of Stanford was third in the field of 13 entries.
Winning by a clear margin over a field of 15, Lawrence Bocci of the G G 5 captured first place in the open individual epee on February 14 at the University of California. Georges Bourgoin, Oakland Fencing Club, took second place from Victor Arnautoff, Olympic Club, on touches.
Going through the seven-team direct elimination competition with the loss of only one bout, the Olympic Club first team of Alfred R. Snyder, Harry Mortimer and Ferrard Leicester won the Northern California Division’s open foil team championship on their home strips, February 21. Stanford University’s trio of Richard Meyerhoff, John Cooper and Robert Halliwell also reached the finals only to take a 5-0 beating. Other teams included the University of California, the G G 5, the Olympic Club second, and the Oakland Fencing Club’s firsts and seconds.
Helen Sander of the Funke Fencing Academy won the division’s women’s junior foil championship at Stanford University on February 28, dropping only one of her five final-round matches. Her teammate, Emilie Romaine, won second place on a count of touches after tying with Lura Morse, San Francisco Fencing Club, at three wins and two losses. Twelve competitors took part.
The Northern California division’s intermediate epee championship, held on a one-touch basis, went to Ferrard Leicester, Olympic Club, who went through the ten-man round robin with a record of seven wins and two losses. Alfred R. Snyder of the Olympic Club, Robert Shrader of the Oakland Fencing Club and Louis Latalullade of the Olympic Club finished in that order in a fence-off after all three had been deadlocked for second place.
A record of 4-1 on the final strip won the women’s intermediate foils competition on March 7 for Emilie Romaine of the Funke Fencing Academy. Helen Sander and Betty Jane Nevis, both of Funke, and Lydia Riedener of the G G 5, tied for second but finished in that order on touches. There were 14 contestants.
