Word: fencer
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...Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
...Foilswoman Helene Mayer of San Francisco, German refugee: the women's national fencing championship; for the seventh time; winning all five bouts and yielding only four touches along the way; at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Only fencer able to alternate touches with her for even a brief spell was Manhattan's Helena Mroczkowska, who tied for second place with three wins, two losses...
...fourth, The Kid began to tattoo the champion with lightning-quick pokes. Oldtimers were reminded of onetime Light-Heavyweight Champion Jack Delaney, the "rapier of the north," who used to fight like a twinkle-toed fencer, but The Kid didn't taunt his opponent as much as usual (Said he afterward: "I didn't have so much time to talk. But I talked to him a couple of times. Once I says to him: 'Joe, you're in for a tough night.' And Joe, he says to me: 'Ah knows...
...best fencer he ever fought, he will tell you, was Joe Levis, 1937 American amateur foil champion. And thereby hangs a tale, for that match was one of Peroy's last exhibition appearances. It was a sports announcer's dream of youth versus age and cunning, and true to the best Hollywood form, the old war horse won a smashing victory. His last touch was an artist's farewell, an inimitable stroke, a daring lunge so fast that it was never parried...
...Labastie, Joe Koch, Hal Park, and Tom Wright will enter the three-weapon championship this afternoon to determine the best fencer in the University...