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...sabre, Edward S. Skinnor '39 captured all three of his matches to lead the Varsity in points. For the Freshmen, Captain Cranston E. Jones '40 won two foil encounters, including a close match with the ace Varsity Foilsman, William F. Gerber '38, 5 to 3. Crimson Captain Edward O. Miller '37 was only defeated once to place second in the scoring for the victors...
Stooge is defined on page 2,484 of Webster's New International Dictionary as "a foil, esp. for a comedian. Theatr. Slang...
...Joseph W. Goldzicher '40. Miller was formerly three weapon champion of St. Louis and Jones was captain of the Andover fencing team. On the Varsity, the important cogs are Captain Miller, New England epee team champion, William F. Gerber '38, who was runner-up in the New England foil championship, Nathaniel B. Batchelder, Jr. '39, holder of the New England sabre team championship, and Edwin S. Skinner...
...John R. Huffman, researcher in Chemistry at Columbia University; for the third successive year the national three-weapon (foil, épée, sabre) fencing championship of the U. S. from a field of 29; at the Fencers Club, New York. ¶West Point's polo team: its 27th consecutive victory, beating Yale, 12-to-9: at West Point...
...hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string of hurdy...