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The New National Rankings
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December 1941
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THE NEW NATIONAL RANKINGS
FORTY-THREE fencers were honored with "first ten" ranking for the 1940-41 season, as recommended by the ranking committee and approved by the Board of Governors of the A. F. L. A. at its September 10 meeting. The odd number was occasioned by the fact that in epee, sabre and women's foil, the No. 10 ranking was split between two fencers.
Of those ranked in 1941, 15 were unranked last year. Three new names appear in foil, three in sabre, and two in women's foil, while there was a wholesale turnover in epee with seven new names.
The rankings in each weapon are as follows (numbers in parenthesis indicate the fencer's rating in that weapon last year):
Foil
1. Dean Cetrulo, Salle Santelli ( )
2. John R. Huffman, N. Y. A. C. (5)
3. Silvio Giolito, N. Y. A. C. (7)
4. Alfred Snyder, Olympic Club ( )
5. Warren A. Dow, N. Y. A. C. (2)
6. Dernell Every, N. Y. A. C. (1)
7. Norman Lewis, Salle Santelli (4)
8. Nathaniel Lubell, Salle d'Armes Vince (9)
9. Jose R. de Capriles, Salle Santelli (3)
10. Arthur D. Tauber, New York University ( )
The four participants in the four-way fence-off for first place in the nationals were ranked as they finished in that fence-off. Warren Dow, handicapped by illness during part of the season, slipped to fifth after having failed to reach the finals for the first time in many national championships. Dernell Every and Norman Lewis, the other national finalists, were ranked next, with three strong fencers who placed consistently high throughout the season filling the first ten.
Epee
1. Captain Gustave M. Heiss, U. S. A., Fencers Club (9)
2. Andrew Boyd, Los Angeles A. C. ( )
3. Henrique Santos, N. Y. A. C. ( )
4.Marvin Metzger, Columbia University ( )
5. Jose R. de Capriles, Salle Santelli (4)
6. Kevis Kapner, Salle Santelli ( )
7. Miguel A. de Capriles, Salle Santelli (10)
8. Edouard Guirola, Salle Santelli ( )
9. Wallace Goldsmith, N. Y. A. C. ( )
10. Pieter Mijer, Salle Santelli (8); James H. Flynn, N. Y. A. C. ( )
Again national championship form dominated the rankings, with Heiss, Metzger, Boyd and Santos, the first four in the title round, leading the rankings. Boyd, who also won the Pacific Coast championship, was ranked second, with Santos and Metzger following. Kapner and Goldsmith, the other contestants in the title round, were ranked sixth and ninth, with the leaders in the Metropolitan division completing the first ten.
Sabre
1. Norman C. Armitage, Fencers Club (1)
2. John R. Huffman, N. Y. A. C. (3)
3. Miguel A. de Capriles, Salle Santelli (4)
4. Tibor Nyilas, Salle Santelli ( )
5. Dean Cetrulo, Salle Santelli (6)
6. George V. Worth, Salle Santelli ( )
7. Nickolas Muray, N. Y. A. C. (8)
8. Ralph Marson, N. Y. A. C. (5)
9. Jose R. de Capriles, Salle Santelli (2)
10 Ervin S. Acel, N. Y. A. C. (10); James H. Flynn, N. Y. A. C. ( )
The only new names in the familiar sabre list are those of Nyilas and Worth, Hungarian internationalists competing a full season in this country for the first time, and Dr. Flynn, who has been moving up the list steadily. The rest are those who have constantly reached the final round in sabre for many years.
Women's Foil
1. Helene Mayer, San Francisco Fencers Club ( )
2. Helena Mroczkowska, Fencers Club (1)
3. Marion Lloyd Vince, Salle d'Armes Vince (3)
4. Maria Cerra, Salle d'Armes Vince (7)
5. Jarmila Vokral, Salle Herrmann (4)
6. Madeline Dalton, unattached (6)
7. Dolly Funke, Greco Fencing Academy (10)
8. Barbara Cochrane, Salle Santelli (5)
9. Paula Sweeney, Salle de Tuscan ( )
10 Lisel Oppenheim, Boston (8); Mildred I. Stewart, Fencers Club (2)
No new names crop up in the Women's rankings this year, Helene Mayer, six times national champion, and Paula Sweeney, many times mid-west titleholder, again coming into prominence through their participation in the nationals.
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Tribute was justly paid to Joe de Capriles by the ranking committee for, although law school examinations made it impossible for him to take part in any of the national individual finals, he was ranked in all three weapons. Ralph Marson, forced to withdraw from the sabre finals by an emergency operation, was also rightfully ranked. Sabre continued to be the weapon that followed form most closely and epee the most unpredictable.
Six fencers from outside the Metropolitan area received ranking—Snyder in foil, Boyd in epee, and Miss Mayer, Mrs. Vokral, Miss Sweeney and Mrs. Oppenheim in women's foil. This compares with eight in 1940.
