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...step and look when 30 men began slicing each other with double-edged words. That was over 100 years age. But foggy morning duels went out with the Virginia Reel, and Hollywood has corned up the fine art of fencing; and nowadays few people pay much attention to Rene Peroy and his varsity swordsmen...
This has never bothered Peroy, though. His two dozen fencers don't get glory, but they like the quick, fast game that always keeps them on their tees. They also can get some good laughs out of the movies. For fencing isn't the brassy, horeic sport of technicolor films, and not even Peroy--an Olympic champ--would try to hold off the French Army with one saber and some balsa-weed chairs...
...Blockhouse fencing room has never sounded like the Anvil Chorus in ragtime. Peroy's French accent can always be heard throughout the afternoon. He'll stand by with a manager while two of his charges fight it out, and the script will run something like this...
...Rene Peroy's swordsmen ran into some fierce competition in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship at New York over the weekend, and it was only a strong performance by the saber team that enabled Harvard to achieve sixth place...
Navy captured the Three Weapon Trophy back in 1943, but Peroy's men, who dropped a close one-point decision to Yale last week, are out to get the honor for the first time in the history of University fencing...