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...victor in the sabre bouts was L.C. Winter '31, who won from J.F. Varian 1L, a former Eli swordsman, 5-0, and from R.B. Lawson...
Contrary to popular legend, Frenchmen are not emotional, like Germans, but the most rational race in the world. In a Parisian salle d'armes last week one Dr. Armand Massard, inventive swordsman, President of the Parisian Federation of Fencing, exhibited a device to rationalize duelling. Frenchmen applauded...
Whether a fence has actually been touched or not is always the source of innumerable acrimonious disputes, disputes which Swordsman President Massard aimed to do away with...
...Greatest Swordsman. Until he was past 60, Le Tigre challenged his enemies incessantly
...duel, swords or pistols as they pleased. In declining such a challenge M. de Casagnac, himself no mean swordsman, said: "M. Clemenceau is probably the greatest swordsman in the world. He is also lefthanded, which gives him a tremendous advantage. Then, too, he is a skilled surgeon, who knows just how and where to give the most deadly thrust...