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Metropolitan Competitions : 215 Take Part in 17 Competitions
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May 1942
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Metropolitan Competitions
215 TAKE PART IN 17 COMPETITIONS
Fields totaling 215 competitors entered the 17 meets held in the metropolitan district during February, March and April, including the inter-divisional finals of the all-eastern championships. These fields were broken down as follows: men's foil, 35; epee, 69; sabre, 54; and women's foil, 57. For the season thus far in the metropolitan section, 54 competitions have attracted 1,250 fencers: 351 in men's foil, 247 in epee, 243 in sabre, 12 in three-weapon and 397 in women's foil.
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Men's Foil
Metropolitan Open Team Foil Championship—Recording one of the outstanding upsets of the year, an underdog Salle Santelli team of Sergeant Norman Lewis, Jose and Miguel de Capriles and Tibor Nyilas outfenced the defending New York Athletic Club combination to win the metropolitan open team foil championship on their home strips April 11. The A. C. trio of John Huffman, Dernell Every and Silvio Giolito went into the final match against Santelli a top-heavy favorite, but dropped the decision, 5-4. Lewis' clean sweep of three victories was the high point of the engagement. The Athletic Club trio, with Warren Dow also fencing, had swept the preliminary matches with the Santelli B squad and the Greco Fencing Academy, as had Santelli A with the A. C. B team and the Foils Club.
Metropolitan Open Individual Foil Championship—Dernell Every of the New York A. C. outpointed his teammate, Warren Dow, 5-3 in a fence-off to win the metropolitan open individual foil championship at the Salle Santelli, April 25. Both had dropped two bouts in the nine-man final to cause the tie. Deadlocked for third with 5 wins and 3 losses were Silvio Giolito, N. Y. A. C., and Evan Quinn, Salle Santelli, but Giolito took the bronze medal on a count of touches. The championship drew 14 entries.
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Epee
Open Epee Team, Washington Square Cup—The Salle Santelli A squad of Miguel and Jose de Capriles and Pieter Mijer retained the Washington Square Cup in open epee team competition by outpointing a field of 14 teams at the Salle Santelli February 22. With 26 victories in the three pools, the winners captured three more bouts than the second-place Fencers Club combination of Tracy Jaeckel, Robert Driscoll and Alfred Skrobisch. Tied for third place was the New York A. C. team of Henrique Santos, James Flynn and Nickolas Muray and the Santelli B squad of Ralph Goldstein, Peter Tishman and Jack Gorlin. Individual honors on the winning squad went to Mike de Capriles, with 10 victories in 13 bouts in the No. 1 pool. Ralph Leiderman, Greco Fencing Academy, put together the best won-and-lost record with 11-2 on the No. 2 strip. The competition was fenced for one touch.
Metropolitan Open Team Electric Epee Championship—A Salle Santelli A team of Pieter Mijer, Ralph Goldstein and Miguel and Jose de Capriles that dropped only six bouts throughout the competition, won the metropolitan open team electric epee championship, fenced for one touch on their home strips March 29. The winners downed Santelli B, 8-1, the Saltus Club 6-3 and the New York A. C. 7-2. The Santelli B squad of Jack Gorlin, Evan Quinn and Herman Trahn, losing only to the winners, took second place. Third was the New York A. C. combination of Leo Nunes, Wallace H. Goldsmith, Jr., and James Flynn, while the Saltus Club team of Franz Ohlson, Marcel Bramerel, August von Munchhausen and Wilfrid Ritayik was fourth.
Metropolitan Open Individual Electric Epee Championship—Going through the 14-man competition with but three defeats, Miguel A. de Capriles of the Salle Santelli won the metropolitan open individual electric epee championship on April 19 at his home club. Second place went to Pieter Mijer, Santelli veteran, who led up to the last quarter of the competition and finished with a total of 9-4. Alfred Skrobisch, Fencers Club, defeated Paul Costigan, St. John's University, in a fence-off for third place after they had deadlocked with eight wins apiece. The bouts were fenced for one touch.
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Sabre
Metropolitan Open Team Sabre Championship—The favored Salle Santelli team of Miguel A. de Capriles, George V. Worth, Tibor Nyilas and Jack Gorlin marched through the metropolitan open team sabre championship on their home strips March 17 with the loss of only three bouts to retain their title. They overwhelmed the Santelli B squad, the New York A. C. and the Saltus Club by 5-1 margins. The Athletic Club trio of Ralph Marson, Ervin Acel and James Flynn finished in second place, beating the Santelli B team of Douglas Gerard, Anthony Hyde, Neil Lazar and Joseph Goldzieher, 5-3, and the Saltus Club combination of Wilfred Ritayik, Eric Schuckert and Eric Brazell, 5-2.
Metropolitan Open Individual Sabre Championship—Tibor Nyilas of the Salle Santelli won the metropolitan open individual sabre championship April 26, upsetting Norman C. Armitage, the Fencers Club's defending titleholder, on the Santelli strips. Nyilas conquered Armitage, 5-3, in a fence-off after both had tied at the completion of the regular competition with record of six wins and two losses. Third place went to John R. Huffman, New York A. C., on a count of touches over George V. Worth, Santelli, and Ralph Marson, N. Y. A. C. There were 20 entries in the championships.
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Women's Foil
Fish Senior Women's Foil—Seven competitors entered the women's senior foil for the Mildred Fish medals at the Fencers Club on February 20. Helena Mroczkowska of the home club took five of her six bouts to win first place, with Maria Cerra of the Salle d'Armes Vince second. Tied for third were Dolly Funke of the Greco Fencing Academy, Dorothy Grimmelmann Centrella of the Salle Santelli and Madeline Dalton of Santelli, who finished in that order on a count of touches.
Metropolitan Open Individual Women's Foil Championship—Helena Mroczkowska of the Fencers Club went through a field of 14 with only one loss to take the metropolitan open individual women's foil championship at the Salle Santelli on March 14 and to win her fourth individual gold medal of the season. In the eight-woman final Miss Mroczkowska took six bouts to finish ahead of Maria Cerra, Salle d'Armes Vince, and Dorothy Centrella, Salle Santelli, who tied with five victories apiece. Miss Cerra took second on a count of touches. Miss Mroczkowska's only loss was to Madeline Dalton, Santelli, who finished fourth.
Metropolitan Open Team Women's Foil Championship—Scoring almost at will against unexpectedly weak opposition, the Fencers Club team of Helena Mroczkowska, Ruth Maxwell, Dorothy Lancaster and Dorothy Wahl won the metropolitan open team women's foil championship on their home strips March 24. The winners outpointed the Salle Santelli A team 5-2, Foils Club 5-0, Santelli B 5-0 and the Greco Fencing Academy 5-0. The Foils Club trio of Dorothy Kerfoot, Bessie Aboulafia and Pearl Perlmutter was second, while none of the other three squads won a match.
National Open Qualifying Round, Women's Foil—Eight women out of a field of 21 entries qualified for the national open championship in the metropolitan qualifying round at the Salle Santelli on April 16. They were: from the Salle Santelli, Madeline Dalton, Dorothy G. Centrella, and Grace Uhthoff; from the Fencers Club, Ruth Maxwell and Dorothy Lancaster; from the Foils Club, Pearl Perlmutter and Bessie Aboulafia; and from the Greco Fencing Academy, Dolly Funke.
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All-Eastern Championships
Women's Foil, Individual—Elizabeth Bruskin, of the Salle Santelli, won the final round-robin for the women’s all-eastern intermediate fencing championship on the strips of the Fencers Club February 13. Miss Bruskin won eight of her nine bouts. Pearl Perlmutter, of the Foils Club, took second place on touches from Ruth Maxwell, Fencers Club. Each won seven bouts but Miss Perlmutter was touched only 18 times while Miss Maxwell received 21 touches. Aida Prencipe of Washington, D. C., beat out Dorothy Wahl of the Fencers Club for fourth place on touches, each winning six and losing three bouts.
Sabre Team—A Salle Santelli team of Jack Gorlin, Peter Tishman, Neil Lazar and Joseph Goldzieher won the all-eastern intermediate sabre team championship from a field of six squads at the Fencers Club on February 15. Emerging undefeated from the round-robin, they beat Columbia University 5-1, New York University 5-4, Seton Hall College 5-1, the Saltus Club 5-3 and the Greco Fencing Academy 5-2. The New York University team of Sol Gartin, Arthur Frank and Seymour Cantor finished with the next best record of three wins and one loss.
Epee Individual—Ralph Goldstein of the Salle Santelli, with a record of eight victories in nine bouts, won the all-eastern intermediate epee championship at the Salle Santelli on March 1 over a field of 10 qualifiers. Tied for second were Henrique Santos of the New York A. C., Evan Quinn of the Salle Santelli and Rudolph Ozol of the New York A. C., finishing in that order on a recapitulation of touches after each had won six bouts throughout the regular competition. Wallace H. Goldsmith, Jr. and James Flynn of the A. C. were tied for fifth with five victories apiece.
Sabre Individual—Peter Tishman of the Salle Santelli won the fence-off after a three-way tie for first to take the gold medal in the all-eastern intermediate individual sabre championship at the Fencers Club on March 8. Tishman, who was inducted into the army on the day following his victory, was tied with Rudolph Ozol of the New York A. C. and Arthur Frank of New York University with a record of four wins and two losses at the end of the regular competition, but bested both his opponents in the fence-off. Ozol downed Frank for second place, with Joseph Goldzieher of the Salle Santelli fourth and Harry Boutsikaris of Seton Hall College fifth.
Men's Foil, Individual—Flashing an unbeatable attacking game, Austin Prokop of Seton Hall College emerged without loss from a ten-man round robin to win the men's all-eastern intermediate foil championship at the Greco Fencing Academy on March 15. Tied for second were Wallace Goldsmith of the New York A. C. and Albert Axelrod of Philadelphia, competing for the New York Foils Club. Goldsmith took second by a margin of one touch, after both had won seven bouts. Evan Quinn of the Salle Santelli took fourth place from his teammate, Ralph Goldstein, after a count of touches.
