Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White hope for the swordsmen in the foil event will be Art Jaros, who starred against Yale and who has done extremely well throughout the entire year. In addition, Ben Johnson, who won 11 of his 12 bouts and who took the individual foil title at the Pentagonals, and Joe Koch are expected to do very creditably...
Boss of Reynolds Metals is chunky, thin-haired, alert Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of the founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. He quit the tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops...
...first even, the foil, the swordsmen took first, second, and third place to win 8 to 1. Art Jares starred for the Crimson, overwhelmingly defeating Owre, Wachsman, and Hamilton of the Elis...
...Captain Dick MacNeal, the Freshmen won the foil and sabre and lost the eppe to take their match, 17 to 10. Al Rockwood starred for the Yardlings in the foils, Harry Cooledge in the sabre. In the epee, Yale had the edge all the way, although Bob Zaugg and Mike Olmsted acquitted themselves nobly. Zaugg succeeded in beating Captain Shannon of Yale, before then, the Crimson's nomesis...
Columbia gained an early lead when the Crimson forces surrendered both the foil and epee bouts with 5 to 4 decisions, but the Lions failed to maintain the margin they gained when they encountered the strong saber trio, which left them, on the low end of a 6 to 3 score...