Word: fencer
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...usual at the Racquet Club in New York. This contest usually takes place early in May, but an effort will be made to arrange it earlier this year. The contesting teams will come as last year, from Harvard, Columbia and Annapolis. The trophy, a handsome bronze statuette of a fencer, has been held by Harvard three years, since the first contest took place...
Townsend and Parker had a spirited and scientific combat. Parker is a left-handed fencer and able to take care of himself, but was hardly a match for his rival, whose work was more finished...
...screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...
...interrupts the sword play, often at a most unfortunate moment. It intercepts a valley, or a "Phrase d'Armes" and spoils the beauty of the game, all because the contestants are not conceded to be honest enough to acknowledge hits made against them. This is all wrong. When a fencer is hit, whether the point is a good one or not he should immediately call out "a touch", and continue the assault, leaving the judge to decide as to the validity of the hit. If the judge should be satisfied that any fencer intentionally failed to acknowledge a point...
Professor G. Castroni, formerly instructor in fencing at Harvard, has opened a fencer's club, at 7 Crescent Place. The new organization is after the European style...