The sun., 1908-03-28
ARMY FENCERS 10 BEST WORK.
Preliminary bouts IN intercollegiate Chan'
pIonshIp- Left for I1nlk.

The preliminary bouts Of the intercollegiate
fencing championship. with foils. took pl1c,
last night In the gymnis.u 0. tn, NsN
York Athletic Club and there were g.S teims
Yale, Columbia, Cornell Weyt Point, An
uapolis and Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nooRy. II ives arranged tina only -four
teams should qualify for thn h1ll to-day,
the two with tho els. wins 70 retire In
the fifteen bouts fence West Point came out
ahead with eleven Won and four los Coum-
bla and Annapolis lied Tor second with nina
wins and six losses. and Cornell won eight bouts
and lost seven Yale won seven and loi,
eight and NJ !. 7, won but ono bou, OF the
fifteen. This reegatei Yale and To'h u
the retired lis.
SO far as the scores ven u, boa work
Of the night vac done hy C1Croft OF Went
Point and Howard o, Cornell N5l.h), hal
suffered de;elt Following we're the teams
Annapolis II. r. GurdIck +. r. 5, Brsndi, II, r.
knauSs,
son
Columbia C, q. Amend !. J. Bymc. C. Il. Miller
West Point r. Stars. u. y. Sohiherg, Y. Cocron
Yale g. {. Haas, l.. ii. smith 4. C. stacy.
Originally there were three more teams
Pennsylvania. Princeton and Harvard but
This left SIX teams for Il Q preliminary last
night. and each team was composed OF three
men. In order to hurry matters, the eighteen
men were divided into three squads ol lliteen
bouts each. II was a lively affair. with the
ripping, smashing and changing oI tie foiis
and the wLitc iacketed fellows bounding
Ckward and forward IN tie fray.
Squad NO ! set the BAL IN motion, BHrdicE
Of The Navy and Amend OF Columbia being
the opponents and the ml1shipman won aiIsr
a close sally, Ia his next bout with sears
BurdCk lost. but he parity redeemed himself
IN his third bOu, when he defeated haas
sears scored ccN er win over harrles. When
about hdit the programme had been disposed
OF Burdick led wlth three WINS, While liarries
Amend aud Sears had two each burdiCk
added another victory 10 his list and Amend
won two, 80 That tie pair tied Tor the hOnois
with four won ana one ,ost.
On squad NO.2 = H. ;. brandt Of the Navy
scored he LTst win, and he showed quick
attack aud M equally quick reverse. ne
won soon sfterward from Smith OF Yale.
One Of the closest bouts on this strip vas
between Byrne ~ ColuRlbis and Sohlberg Of
the Army. they tied twice. and dnally
Byrne RGt tho erdiCi Sohlbprg had close
c0nhC again with iornE, aud an extra
period Was necessary, when SOhlbCrg won.
Howard OF Cornell did tho test WCrk Of this
strip, We won from Brandt, lorinR. Sohl-
berg and Sihith aud retired without u defeat.
Iirandt and Sohlberg tied for second with
three each.
4. e. stsley Of Yale, president Of the Inter.
collegiate Fencing Association, and Cocroft OF
the Army had a neck and nee race OF II IN
strip No. .. They scored four bouts apitcs
without miss. The climax was reached
when they faced each other. and II was
rafting four minutes and AZ fast "a the most
critical foil expert could desire. To the out
aide observer matters apparently we're even.
but the udRes decided on CoCroft, and this
left the West Pointer with n clean score and
Staley with only one defeat. The summary;
Squad No. Bu-dlcS defeated Harrles. LNnFe,
Amend and Haas and Inst IN Sears HaTrleS de
feated Lange and Haas and lost 20 RurdlCk Amend
and SeArs: Lange lost to Rurdlcs, ltauie5, Amend,
SEARS and Haas; Amend defeated HArrles, I.ange,
Sears and Haas and lost 70 Burdick; Scars defeated
Bmrdlck Harries and Lsagt and lost 10 Amend and
IIaAS Haas defeated Lsnce and Sears and lost tO
Burdlck. HArreS and Amend
SaCad > nrAu6. defeated Byrne. Smith and
Loving and lost IN Sohlberg Snd Howard: Howard
defeated brandt. Loving, Brine. Sohlberg and
Smith Loving defeated Oyrne and lost TO brandt
Howard SohlberE and Smith Byrnc defeated
Sohlhers and Smith and lost IN brandt. Howard
and LOVING SohlberR defeated Brandt Loving and
Smith snh los, 10 Howard and ByIne, Smith de
tented Loving aad lost 20 Brsndt, Howard, BTtnc
end Sohlbsrg
Squad No. r. KrauSs defeated Carey and Nicker,
son and lost 10 Miller COc.or and Staley: Carey
defeated NlcKers0n and lost to Krauss, Miller,
Cocrott and StAley NlrkcVson lost 10 kraGSs
CAREY Miller. COcrott and Staey; Miller defeated
Krnuss. Carey and Neterson and lost N Cccroft
and StAley COcrofi defeated krauSs, Care! .Nlcker
son, Miller and Staley: SAlty defeated Krauss
Carey. NlcRsrson and hlher and lost TO Cocroi.