Electrical Epee to Be One-Touch
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Electrical Epee to Be One-Touch
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February 1942
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Electrical Epee To Be One-Touch
The contraction in the market of epee blades has caused the board of governors to rule that all competitions scheduled for electric epees for the remainder of the season are to be fenced for one touch. This includes both individual and team competitions, national and divisional.
This will be the first year since 1931 that the national open epee championship will have been fenced for one touch. Although the metropolitan open championship was one-touch last year, it was at that time looked upon in the nature of an experiment, the shortage of blades not having been too seriously felt.
The national epee championship was always fenced for one touch until 1932, when the three-touch form was introduced. Early in 1940 there was much discussion of the possibility of returning to one touch, but it was not until the blade situation became acute that it was decided to shift the nationals back to the old form.
