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Illinois
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June 1941
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6
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ILLINOIS
Sweeping first, second and third place in both the men's and women's foil, the Green Briar fencing teams won the Chicago Park District tournament this year for the first time. Limited to foil only, the competition was held on February 13 and 14.
Three fencing exhibitions were staged in Chicago during the spring. On the evenings of March 20 and 21, Miss Shirley Logan, Miss Patsy Walsh, Eugene Williams, Hanns Fischer and Gordon Groh demonstrated with three weapons before several hundred spectators at Green Briar Park. Another exhibition was presented by the Lincoln Belmont Y. M. C. A. on April 24, with Miss Logan, Miss Walsh, Williams, Fischer, Groh and Jerry Mau competing. The feature of the evening was the sabre show by the girls, who fenced without protection.
Warren Huguelet, formerly a member of the Salle d'Armes Henry IV in New York and now with the U. S. Army at Fort Knox, Ky., won the Illinois division epee championship over a top-flight field that included National Champion Fred Siebert and last year's champion, Loyal Tingley. Huguelet went through the six-man finals with only one defeat, that a 3-1 loss to Charles Corbett. After defeating Capt. Siebert 3-0 and Tingley 3-1, he outpointed Tingley again 3-0 in a fence-off for first place.
