Word: weapon
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Both individual and team champions will be chosen in each weapon, and then on the basis of these results one team will be declared the winner of the meet. Harvard's swordsmen have a chance to win in some of the weapons and a fair chance to take first place in the meet, since they have entries in all three events...
Close competition featured all of the bouts in the sabre division of the University championship tournament. In winning first place Wing defeated R.B. Lawson '32, Ludlam, and E.A. Ackerman '34. Lawson placed second, and Ludlam took third place. Almost every duel in this weapon was fought strenuously, and several of them took some time to complete...
...selection of the following fencers: F. S. Righeimer 2L. H. B. Wesselman '31, H. C. Cassidy '31, and J. D. Allen '31. This brings the total of epee finalists to six, K. R. Ludlam '33 and J. H. Beard '34 having been chosen on Tuesday. This is the only weapon in which a graduate student has shown any strength thus far in the championship. Righeimer fenced creditably yesterday, but he will encounter stiff opposition today from the four regular members of the University team...
...will begin at 3 o'clock this afternoon with the epee bouts following at 4 o'clock. The fencers who will cross swords to determine the University champion foilsman are H. B. Wesselman '31, J. D. Allen '31, H. C. Cassidy '31, and Gilbert Kerlin '33. Again in this weapon the University swordsmen have carried the first eliminations. The competition for champion will likely be keener in this division than in any other...
...clear case of self defense," said Maitre Louis Gassin, her principal attorney. "The fact that my client bought two months ago the revolver with which she shot and killed her husband does not indi- cate premeditation. . . . She simply purchased the weapon for use in case of ex-treme emergency to defend her life. How prudent this action...