The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-20

cult one to face. As the leading fencer.
 or the Boston Athletic association were fully trained i'll the French school be. fore he came to this country, and as they have continued to fence in thei,
 original school, Piacenti's pupils, the younger element, have not yet had time
 10 show what they will do in competi- | ton When they have thoroughly learned
 the method One thing should not be
 passed by in Speaking of this gentle
 mans fencing, and that is the perfect pohteness while fencing that he insists upon. His own conduct is so genial and
 polite that it Is more of q pleasure to be
 defeated by him than to win against a man who fails to recognize the touches when he is hit.
 | or the teachers of the French school with the foil there are a number in and
 about Boston. The leading opponents 1 are Prof. Louis Rondelle, Instructor at I the Boston Young Mems Christian asso- ciation; Charles A. Ranlett, instructor or the Posse gymnasium, and Captain
 A. w. Seaholm at the Roxbury Latin school. Prof Rondelle is a maitre dar1nes of the leading Parisian school and one of the best authorities on fen clng in this country. He Is a working fencer, and the etiquette of fencing re- celves less attention among his pupils
 than does the steady grind of practice.
 MT. Ranlett is West Point trained
 man, who teaches the French method
 with the foil and the Italian with the
 duelipg sword He gives but little time
 nd hac Ivy, to,, e,
 bit more than year. His novice pupils
 have made a good showing, however in
 tournaments, and in the matter of eti-
 quette appear particularly we'll Cap
 tain Seaholn is a class teacher and does not do much individual work His training was received at the Royal Mill itary college at Sandhurst Eng. For three years he has handled the work of the boys at the RoXbury school and has developed an excellent drill.
 Among other cities of New England there are some enthusiastic fencing clubs, that at Worcester being the lead ing one outside of Boston Lucien Fournon, who received his training in the French army, is the fencing master of the Worcester club, and, judging by the quality of the work done recently by his pupils, is good exponent of the art he teaches. Messrs Shepard and Estabrook, of the Worcester Fencing club, who took second and third prizes In the novice class competition at the Boston Athletic association recently, fenced in q very finished manner.
 The only general organization of fem cers in the United States is the anna teur Fencers' League of America, the headquarters of which Is in New York. It includes the fenceTs of most of the eading athletic clubs in the east, among them being the New York Athletic club, the New York Fencers' club, the Boston Athletic association, the Diplomats Fencing club of Washington and some others. pr. Hammond, of the New | York Athletic club, is president of the | and he Is a veteran well fitted to head an or sanitation which for tone has no supe- | for in this country. The rules of the Amateur Fencers' League of America hat govern fencing bouts, or, as they Ire termed in fencing parlance, "as- aults," are just and well devised They are coming to be generally adopt f d throughout the country wherever encng tournaments take place. The resent season has been an unusually -ood one in the fencing circles of all the astern cities, and next year promises till greater enthusiasm over the sport. Boston Transcript.