The Remise
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The Remise
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May 1942
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THE REMISE
When the Cartier Trophy was retired in December by the third successive victory of the N. Y. A. C. foil team, a unique record came to light. Warren Dow announced that he had fenced in every Cartier Trophy competition since its inception in 1924. Furthermore, he had fenced in the first bout in 1924 against Rene Peroy, then the amateur foil champion and member of the Fencers Club. Had it so happened that the N. Y. A. C.-Salle Santelli match this year had gone to nine bouts, Dow would again have faced a current amateur foil champion, Dean Cetrulo, and again had he won he would have been able to claim the first and last bouts in the competition series, both with victories against the foil champion of the day.
Retirement of the Cartier Trophy depended upon three successive years' victory by a foil team from the same club. There were many teams which ran up two successive victories, but the third year proved too great a requirement for nineteen years. Warren Dow was a member of a winning team seven times in all: Saltus Club '30, University Club '36, Salle Santelli '38 and '39 and New York Athletic Club '40, '41 and '42.
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As sort of Master of Ceremonies at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship I took it upon myself to try to roam around among those fencers who had come the longest distance, chat with them and get them to relax from the nervous tension brought on by the strange surroundings, the crowds and the general competitive fever of the occasion. One of these boys was a young epeeist from Penn State. That college had been invited as special guest this year and most of its members had never seen a competition so large. This boy admitted to me that he was a rank neophyte. “I was only brought along to get some experience. The trouble is that I have been losing my bouts 3–0 so fast that I am not getting any.”
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Some excellent fencing photographs of Arthur Tauber, Sol Gorlin and Seymour Gross appear in the May 10th issue of Life magazine. Taken with the high speed camera of Gjon Mili, they show successive poses of each phrase and, considering the publishing medium, are unusually good. Life tends to stress the sensational, but these photographs are for the most part those of orthodox actions and presented without such wise-cracks as Life has previously used in connection with fencing pictures.
