New-York tribune., 1909-02-21
TURN VEREIN H VICTOR.
Fencers Hin tSaltus Medals by a
Touch IN Last Bout.

BY single touch in the final bout Of the even
ing. the junior fos fencing team Of the New York
Turn Verein won the Saltus medals from the team
representing the New York Fencers' Club. Never
before in the history OF the competition for these
medals has the finish been close exciting.
With each team having four bouts, y. Mey
Ian, Of the New York Fencers' Club. and J. Kroe-
ger, of the Turn Verein, faced each other for the
decisive bout. Kroeger started off in whirlwnd
style and quickly scored five touches to his oppo-
nent's one. Then Meylan made remarkable rally
and tied the score 1t five touches all. II used up
his strength. however. and in the last fifteen Sec
onds Of the bout Kroeger's rapier found its way
through his opponents guard for the winning
touch.
4 serious accident Y as narrowly averted. While
Jaegendorf. OF the Carnegie team. and Postsate
were fencing in the semi-fnals the former made a
fierce lunge which the latter parried widely. Jae-
gendorf's FOIL with all the impetus Of the lunge oe
hind it, stuck Anton Rieth. jr.. OF the judges,
a glsncing blow on the nose cutting II slightly.
Had the anGle been even a second different Mr..
Rieth would in all probability have lost one OF his
eyes.
Five teams entered the competition. Besides the
ones already mentioned, there teams from
the Delaney Fencing Club, OF Philadelphia, and the
French Young Mems Christian Association. The
New York Athletic Clubs team failed to appear
the drawings for the preliminaries the Carnegie
team drew a bye The Fencers' Club quickly put
an end 10 the hopes OF the Philadelphans by taking
Eve STRAIGHT bouts and the Turn Nerein turned the
same trick the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton people. Then the Turn Verein team defeated
the Carnegie bouts 2. and this left It and
the Fencers' Club for the finals
AS an exhibition OF high class fencing the COM
petition not exactly success There was too
much lighting and too little fencing The work
Of Curran. Of the FencCrs Club stood out IN nota-
bic contrast. His form unusually eood, and
he seemed to know the definition OF the word
fencing Curran was. however. weak I'm parry
ing at times and toward the end his attack fell OF
Posgate showed the strongest attack OF any man
on the floor. Several of his lunges were remarka-
bly, good. His riposte work several times verged
on being excellent On the whole, the New York
Fencers' Club team showed the best form and the
cleverest parrying The Turn Verein. using the
fighting style of attack. proved however just
touch too good for them Several of the bouts
TO extra periods
The summaries follow.
york FenceT club defeated Wsndei DELANEY Fencing
fI1IH. Or Gisnoux New York Fencers club defeated
Mecntoc EeRSns cub FsnceS Se% b k
Meyan New York Fencers club defeated IN Me- nntock.
beams Beams Fencing Club o bouts IN
Second round-strsus Turn yerein defeated ORTIZ;
Coube French NJ KroegeT Turn , eTeip T:r de
defeated Coube French Y. NJ c. A: Postgate. Turn
ds1sated s Fssa E9sge Fl EFe9eh A. bouts 6 Turn
Third round straas. Turn verein defeated Miller car
Postgate Turn Veren Kroeger Turn yereln de
debated jaeerdorf Carnegie Fencing club: Postgate
Miiar Sarnecte Fencing SC1ub Kroeeer.
Veren; straus, Turn VeTen defeated Riley GeTnesie
FinaiscurTan New York Fencers Club defeated straus
Turn Ve-eni sIeylan. New York Fencers' club defease
Turn yeseR Kr9es @ uTR ssn % @ea Vra
defeated curran New York FenesTs G1b Dr. GlEmoI1
CTran New York Fencers Club deested Kroeger. Turn
Ke5ein saPs n Posate Turn vefsn Defeated Dr. Gig
noux York Eencers Cub RT9ese @ Turn T1 Eeen &
: bouts New Fencers' Club. bouts