Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were also speeches-off the record. Franklin Roosevelt as usual was the star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...
Group championships in epee, foils, and three-weapon fell to the U. S. Naval Academy, while Columbia captured first place in the sabre. In the individual championships Manzo, U. S. Military Academy, took first place, as did De Poix, Naval Academy, in the foils, and Campo, also a Midshipman, in the Sabre. Final three-Weapon Standing Epee Foil Sabre Total Navy 28 1/2 29 23 75 1/2 Army 21 1/2 19 24 64 1/2 Columbia 18 16 26 60 N.Y.U 14 21 24 59 City College 15 24 16 55 Harvard...
Continuing its winning ways the fencing team decisively defeated the St. John's swordsmen Saturday, the score being 17-10. After losing the foils 5-4 with Cranston Jones taking two of his three matches to lead the Harvard foil-men, decisive victories were scored in both epee and saber...
...other members of last year's famed Freshman squad are very proficient in handling the foil, a weapon formerly used only in practice. Small southpaw, Art Jarros is a wiry, energetic fencer. The other, boasting a high AFLA ranking, is Ben Johnson...
Cranston Jones and Al Labastie, seasoned fencers, defeated two foes each last Saturday. Jones had experience at Andover before entering Harvard, while Labastie won the Novice AFLA Foil crown this fall. Both men are Juniors. The foil squad will be strengthened shortly with the return of Scott Long Manager of the team, who has been unable to appear in the early meets...