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A.F.L.A. Competitions in New York City
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June 1941
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6
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3
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13, 20
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A. F. L. A. Competitions in New York City
Marion Lloyd Vince, of the Salle d'Armes Vince, regained her metropolitan foils title when she triumphed over a strip of twelve at the Fencers Club on March 15. She captured the title only after a fence-off with Helena Mroczkowska, when each had finished the regulation competition with scores of 10-1. In the third place was Mrs. Jarmila Vokral of the Salle Herrmann, Philadelphia.
The New York Athletic Club men's foil team repeated its sweeping victory of last year in the Metropolitan open championship, defeating a field of six teams with the loss of only three bouts at the Salle Santelli on March 16. Dernell Every, Silvio Giolito and Warren A. Dow comprised the title-winning team. In second place was the Salle Santelli "A" squad of Jose de Capriles, Norman Lewis, Dean Cetrulo and Albert Axelrod, who lost only to the winners, 5-1. Also entered were "B" teams representing the N. Y. A. C. and Santelli, together with New York University and the Greco Fencing Academy. The two top teams also qualified for the national open championship.
The Salle Santelli squad of Dr. Tibor Nyilas, Miguel A. de Capriles, George V. Worth and Dean Cetrulo swept the Metropolitan open team sabre championship from a field of six teams on their home strips March 20. Again the competition narrowed down to a fight between the Santelli "A" team and the N. Y. A. C. squad of Dr. John R. Huffman, Ralph Marson, Nickolas Muray and Bela de Nagy, with the eventual winners pulling up from a 3-0 deficit to take the gold medals. Santelli "B" and New York University also competed, with the first and second teams qualifying for the nationals.
The Salle Santelli notched its second metropolitan championship in four days when its "A" team of Miguel A. de Capriles, Pieter Mijer and Norman Lewis captured the open epee title on March 23. Qualifying with the Santelli trio for the national championships was the runner-up Fencers Club team, Alfred Skrobisch, Robert Driscoll, and Tracy Jaeckel, whom Santelli defeated 5-3 in the deciding match. Other teams fencing were the Salle Santelli "B" squad and the New York Athletic Club.
The Salle d'Armes Vince regained its metropolitan women’s open foil championship after a year’s lapse when it dominated a field of four teams in the title round at the Fencers Club on March 26. The trio that won the championship was composed of Marion Lloyd Vince, Maria Cerra and Kathleen Cerra. The winning team was not decided until the final match between Vince and the Fencers Club, with a team composed of Helena Mroczkowska, Mildred Stewart, Dorothy Wahl and Dorothy Lancaster. In the deciding bout Mrs. Vince conquered Miss Mroczkowska, the national champion, to win the match for her squad. Also competing were teams from New York University and the Foils Club.
Warren A. Dow of the New York A. C., the defending champion, won the metropolitan individual foil championship over a field of 18 on the strips of the Salle Santelli April 5. Dropping only one bout in the nine-man final, Dow established a clear margin over Dr. John A. Huffman, his teammate, who finished second with a record of 6-2. Deadlocked for third with five victories apiece were Jose de Capriles of the Salle Santelli, Nathaniel Lubell of the Salle d’Armes Vince, and Dernell Every of the N. Y. A. C., who finished in that order on a count of touches. Other finalists were Arthur Tauber of New York University, Dean Cetrulo of the Salle Santelli, and Wallace Goldsmith and Rudolph Ozol of the N. Y. A. C.
Six Salle Santelli fencers swept the field in the metropolitan open individual epee championships at the Salle Santelli on April 12. Leading the group was Edouard Guirola who went through the 17-man strip in the one-touch competition with only three losses. The Santelli epeemen who followed the winner were: Jose de Capriles (11-5), Miguel de Capriles (10-6), Jack Gorlin and Frank Goodfellow (tied at 9-7) and Pieter Mijer (tied with six other contestants at 8-8).
Dr. Norman Armitage of the Fencers Club regained his metropolitan sabre title in the championship held on April 13 at the Salle Santelli. The competition, handicapped by a lack of directors and an inordinate amount of protesting on decisions, took more than seven hours to complete, and tested the endurance more than the skill of the competitors. Dr. Armitage’s cool fencing, however, won him a clear margin over the field with seven victories and only one defeat. Second place went to Dr. John R. Huffman of the New York Athletic Club with six victories, while George V. Worth of the Salle Santelli defeated Ralph Marson of the N. Y. A. C., 5-4, in a fence-off for third place after a complete deadlock. Other finalists were Jack Gorlin, Dean Cetrulo, Jose de Capriles and Douglas Gardner of the Salle Santelli, and Neil Lazar of C. C. N. Y.
Four N. Y. A. C. fencers led the eight metropolitan qualifiers for the national open individual foil championship in the preliminary rounds fenced at the Salle Santelli on April 20, with a field of 23. Dr. John R. Huffman and Silvio Giolito, A. C. fencers, led the first strip, on which Jose de Capriles of the Salle Santelli and Peter O’Connor of the Greco Fencing Academy also qualified. On the second strip the qualifiers were Warren Dow and Wallace Goldsmith of the N. Y. A. C., Albert Axelrod of the Salle d’Armes Vince. Arthur Tauber, New York University, defeated Ralph Goldstein of the Metropolitan Fencing Club for the first alternate’s position.
Marion Lloyd Vince, of the Salle d’Armes Vince, fenced her way undefeated through a field of 17 in the qualifying round for the women’s national open individual championship on April 23 at the Fencers Club, to lead the six who went up to the championship finals. In her eight bouts in the final qualifying round, she was pressed to 4-3 scores only twice. Qualifying behind Mrs. Vince, in order, were: Dolly Funke, Greco Fencing Academy; Maria Cerra, Salle d’Armes Vince; Elizabeth Bruskin, Metropolitan Fencing Club; Dorothy Grimmelman Centrello, Salle Santelli, and Barbara Cochrane, Salle Santelli. First alternate was Pearl Perlmutter, Foils Club.
Eight more qualifiers for the national championship were determined in the preliminary electric epee round fenced at the Salle Santelli on April 27. Twenty-one competed in the test. Edouard Guirola, Salle Santelli, and Leo Nunes, N. Y. A. C., led the first strip with four victories apiece. Also qualifying were Miguel A. de Capriles, Salle Santelli, and Marvin Metzger, Columbia, with Frank Goodfellow, Santelli, as alternate. Kevis Kapner, Salle Santelli, led the second strip with four victories, followed by Jose de Capriles, Santelli; Henrique Santos, N. Y. A. C., and Wallace Goldsmith of the same club. Peter O’Connor, Greco, who qualified as alternate from the second strip, defeated Goodfellow in a fence-off to determine the first alternate.
The Salle Santelli and the New York Athletic Club again dominated the qualifying lists in the sabre preliminary to the national championship, the former qualifying three men and the latter five. On the first strip, the leaders were Miguel A. de Capriles and George V. Worth, Santelli, and Nickolas Muray and Ralph Marson, N. Y. A. C. On the second strip, the winners were Dr. Tibor Nyilas, Santelli, and three A. C. men: Dr. Erwin Acel, Dr. John R. Huffman and Dr. Angelo Treves. First alternate is Jack Gorlin, Santelli.
