New-York tribune., 1909-03-28
CADETS BEST FENCERS
WINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
NaUy Second an Intercollegiate Con-
test and Yale Third.

For the second time succession the Army
fencing team won the intercollegiate championship
The final bouts fenced in Troop AS armory,
Madison avenue and 9th street. last night The
winning team won 29 and lost bouts; the Navy
came second, with q and II lost; Yale was
third, with 16 and II lost, and the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology fourth with bouts
to "a lost.
The preliminary bouts were fought out Friday.
They resulted in the elimination OF the University
of Pennsylvania and the Cornell teams Previ-
ously in a triangular meet Harvard. Princeton and
Columbia were eliminated
The West Pointers their merits. They
were clearly the best fencers, and the Army this
year can boast of one of the best fencing teams
that it or any other college has ever had The
team has stars, it Is true that can equal for
brancy Dickinson (Army) Dichtman Navy,
but every the team is an excellent, cool
and effective foilsman.
The Navy second place. and while her de-
feat disappointment to her admirers. yet it
cannot be said to have been unexpected. The Navy
team this year was hardly up to the standard set
by former Academy teams In fact, Captain Brandt
is the only man on 1t who can be said to have met
that standard. Midshipmen 'BrOchardt and Brad
ford, the other two men, have shown steady and
perhaps remarkable improvement in the last few
weeks of the but neither was able TO attain
the form necessary to win from the Army.
Yesterday SO bouts were fenced. q Of these being
decided at the Turn Verein fencing rooms IN tls
afternoon and the final u at Troop AS armory.
Inc Navy, as usual IHdCS d Ddu sal aii0 A'S
work in the afternoon while showing Improvement
over that Of the previous day. was nevertheless
ragged and disappointing. whereas the Army won
twenty OF its twenty-one bouts. When the night
bouts began West Point had established what was
bound prove winning lead, and there was little
doubt who would win the intercollegiate cham
pionship But as Yale had shown unexpected
strength, the followers Of the Blue began TO hope
it might Navy out OF second place
The mdshipmen however. proved themselves ex-
cellent last ditch fighters Their attack became
100 per cent stronger and their defence more
dogged. By a splendid exhibition Of swordsnan-
ship they won all except one Of the final bouts
and had the added consolation Of taking three OF
them from the Army. Borchardt actually fenced
better than he knew how. and Captain Brandt
showed his usual cleverness and ability.
Cadets Sears, Cocroft and SOhlberg. who COM
posed the Army team. proved themselves inVln-
cible to all except Navy foils. and easily won all
Of their final bouts with Yale and the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
One Of the best bouts the final one OF the
night sohlberg faced Borchardt, and both men
did some clever work. Borchardt started by at
tacking fercely, and while Sohlberg's defence was
strong his riposte work was not equal to that or
the MILDLY, and Borchardt defeated him by several
touches.
There were large number Of persons IN the gal-
lerfes to watch the deciding bouts. but owing TO
the ability Of the Army team TO get and keep such
a large lead there little no enthusiasm
The summaries of the final bouts follow:
First bout-Brandt Navy. defeated Knox. NJ l. t
T29d T5i29 AI NavS defsated smith Yale
Fourth bout--Cocroft ArrnS; defeated Ross.
sixth bout-Bradford. Navy. defeated LoTing NJ l; T
Fjgb-5 bout-Tran ndt Navy. defeated Cocroft. Army.
Ninth bout-Knox, NJ. / T. defeated smith Yale
Eleventh bout-Ross Yale DEBATED Guibawn, n l. T..
twelfth bout-Borchardt. Navy defeated sohioers'