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With 27 events scheduled, W. Scott Long, Jr. '39 will be the first man in the Foil, Lester C. Mill '39 in the Epee, and Joseph T. Doyle '39 in the Saber. There will be nine events with each weapon...
...Saber: Edwin S. Skinner '38, captain, Joseph T. Doyle '39, Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39, Joseph W. Goldzieher...
...Coach Tatum's implication that fencing is not a sufficiently exciting sport without bloodshed, other college fencing instructors were quick to protest. Snapped Yale's veteran Robert Grasson: "Very foolish." Echoed Harvard's Rene Peroy: "Foolish and unsafe." More impassive was George Santelli, saber coach of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team. Shrugged he: "To approve . . . would be to approve the possibility that someone might be killed, so I do not approve...
Foil matches take place today at 2 o'clock, with the events in the epee and the saber tomorrow and Friday at the same time. This year's tournament differs from these of other years in that the round-robin method has been replaced by elimination matches...
Practicing for the match with Yale on Saturday, the varsity fencing team yesterday afternoon downed the Freshman 6-3 in the foils, epee, and saber competitions. The Yardlings came out better than they did in an earlier meeting when they lost...