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Captain H. E. Twyfford, entered in both the foils and dueling swords matches, is considered the most formidable fencer on the team. In 1922 he was runner-up, and in 1923 he was the winner of the Junior National Championship, in which all of the best amateur fencers compete. "His fencing is of the 'slambang', fighting type" was the verdict of a member of the Crimson team who has fenced with him. Jules de Vigno is a well-known French amateur and Warren Dow, a former Columbia fencer, is a member of the Fencers' Club Epeo team, which lately...
...Show '20, Captain of the University Fencing team in 1920, won three matches for the Oxford Fencing team against Cambridge, in a recent meet. Snow, who is now a Rhodes Scholar, was a brilliant fencer while in college. His two victories in foiling were the chief reasons for Harvard defeating Yale that year 5-4. That same day in a dueling swords exhibition, he defeated the conqueror of the intercollegiate champion...
Bloomer of Columbia, entered in both the foils and duelling swords matches, is considered the most formidable fencer on the team. Fuertes, however, is the novice champion of the Amateur Fencing League of America and Barrett is the winner of the Clemens medal competition in last year's Intercollegiate Championship...
...University's comparatively easy victory was a surprise as Dartmouth was supposed to have the most powerful fencing team that the University was scheduled to meet this season. Dartmouth's star foilsman, Hertzberg, has never been defeated by any University fencer in the four years that he has been fencing for Dartmouth and last year he placed third in the fencing intercollegiates. When Captain E. H. Lane '24 defeated Hertzberg seven touches to four, and when E. L. Lane '24 repeated the victory by touching Hertzberg seven times to his six in the most exciting match of the contest...
...high type to make a business of politics instead of politics of their business was never more in evidence than today. As Colonel Roosevelt once put it, "to be effective in politics a man must make it his profession. An amateur politician is like an expert fencer trying to use a forty-five against a two-gun man. He is helpless because it is not in his line...