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Candidates for the University Fencing Team will report to Coach Danguy in Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock. The management is planning a schedule containing eight home games and four trips. The place of a second University team will be taken by the Harvard Fencer' Club team, for which a schedule is also being arranged. Practice for the University squad will take place in the old fencing room of the Hemenway Gymnasium between 4 and 6 o'clock on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays...
Only one veteran of former University teams has returned this year. Gay, who was on the 1916-17 team, is acting captain and is a strong fencer. A call for new candidates has been issued. The new fencing room in Apthorp House was opened last Wednesday, and from now no practice will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons of each week. Coach Leslabay, international fencing champion in 1908 and coach of last season's University team, will have charge of the squad again this year. Freshman candidates will receive special attention, and in the early part...
Captain Russell is favored by experts to win the individual championship this year. Beaten in last year's standing by only Moquin and White, he has improved greatly this season, and as neither of these men are now competing, the University fencer has an excellent chance to carry off first honors, with an undefeated record for this season to his credit...
...undefeated University fencing team will cross swords with the University of Pennsylvania fencers in the fencing room of Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 3.30. This will be the third meet of the season for the University team, Bowdoin and Springfield Y. M. C. A. having been defeated. The Pennsylvania swordsmen are all veterans and will make the Crimson fencers show their best to win. Patterson, the leader of the Pennsylvania team, is a fencer of great skill and the match between him and Captain W. H. Russell '18 will bring together two of the best college fencers in the country...
...Harvard Fencer's Club will hold a smoker in Dunster 31 this evening at 8. Some very interesting documents relating to the war have been procured and a number of letters from men fighting in the trenches for the Allies will be read. All members of the Fencers' Club in the University as well as all others interested in fencing are invited to attend...