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Hard feeling flared up after Saturday's set to in the Indoor Athletic Building when the Crimson swordsmen came from behind to nose out the Eli fencers 14-13 for their first victory over the Blue in four years. Coach Grasson felt that the judging was prejudiced against his team and took no pains to conceal his emotions. Rene Peroy, Crimson mentor, refused to get excited about the meet and simply said "Grasson is always a very poor loser...
...University team, graduates and guests from other colleges will participate, is to be held on Friday, at 8.30 o'clock, in the fencing room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The affair is open to the public. Every year, Rene Peroy, University fencing coach, invites guests, such as Robert Grasson, Yale fencing coach, and the Lane brothers, who were both on the 1924 Harvard team that won the Intercollegiate Foils Championship, as well as the best men on the present squad, to participate in a few bouts with foils, sabre, and epee. Last year a special feature of the program...
...clock. Notables engaging in this exhibition are E.L. Lane '24, and his twin brother, former captain E.H. Lane '24, who were members of the team that captured the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship in 1924. As a further attraction, Coach Peroy, former Olympic and European star, will meet Robert Grasson, fencing coach at Yale...
Righeimer next was seen in an informal bout with his former coach, Grasson. Peroy again demonstrated his unusual skill with the foils in an encounter with Levis, after which J. D. Allen '31 showed his superiority to H. B. Wessellman '31, also with foils. The final bout of the evening was sensational; Peroy and Grasson met once more, this time with sabres. Peroy was a great deal superior to his opponent, and with much informal chattering and joking, these two put on a pretty demonstration...
After the exhibition, Grasson told a CRIMSON reporter that it has been one of the finest exhibitions he had ever seen. He expressed the wish that Harvard would continue to give such demonstrations yearly as does Princeton and various other colleges. He was enthusiastic in his praise of Peroy. "I am pleased to find Peroy so strong," he said. "I had underrated him, especially with the sabre. He is stronger in all three weapons than the men in New York who specialize in one. He is a good man, and should do much for the sport at Harvard...