New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-09
Columbia Takes
Lead for FOils
Championship
Work of Substitute Lowndcs
Puts the Blue and
White i'm Title Hunt


the intercollegiate foils championship
preliminaries held last night at the
Astor Hotel. winning seventeen out of
twenty-five bouts. The Navy repre-
scntatives finished in second place, hav-
ing won fifteen out of twonty-one bouts
lumbia, substitute. was mainly re-
sponsible for the standing Of the Blue
and White. He won seven out OF eight
bouts, being beaten only by Becker. of
Navy.
Becker was the individual star Of the
preliminary round, winning every one
OF the seven bouts in which he took
part. Bencoe. OF Colum ola, also made
an excellent showing, wita seven vic
tories and one defeat.
The standing follows;
Columbia won l. out Of %; Navy
won Is out of 21 Harvard won - out
of %; Yale won 10 out Of -; peNnsyl-
vania won out of Is; DartmoG, Won
cut of %.
Navy Wins Clemens Medal
The Clemens Medal Novice Foils
competitions was run off in the morn
ing
Numerous ties in the preliminaries
and finals slowed up the novice foils
competition. The first of these was a
triple tie for second place on the
fourth strip in the preliminary bouts.
In the fence-off Nelson, the onearmed
Brett Club foilster, won the right to
victories over Glenn, Braden School,
and Richards, N. Y. NJ. A.
A second knot was tied in the semi
final event, to which Barrett Colum-
bia, and Floyd, Navy, advanced from
the third preliminary strip, and Wat
son, Harvard, and Nelson, Brett Club,
from the fourth strip. Floyd, Watson
and Barrett each won two bouts in
this semi-hnal On the fence-off Floyd
and Watson were advanced to the final
round by victories over Barrett.
The Floyd Pumley semi-fnai bout
went to four extra periods before the
midshi pman won.
Event Open to Novices
The Clemens medal, offered by DR..
J. B. Clemens, is open to novices in
didate shall have received less than
two years instruction in fols, and that
he shall not have won in previous COM
petitions.
The summarizes:
Clemens medal novice fols FIRST strip -
randheld. Navy, defeated t. W. Huber
Columbia; e. johnson. N. Y NJ A., Whit
ford Brett club and H. G. Hutchinson,
\. Y. A. C.; johnson defeated Huber Whit
ford and Hutchinson: Huber defeated
Second strip-H. II. Plumley, Yale. de-
feated Chapman. Dartmouth q. Pease' \.
Y. NJ. A. and Bierschanll. Columbia; r o.
Brown. Columbia. defeated Chapman. Pease
nd Berschank. Chapman defeated Pease
Pease defeated Bierschank.
I'd Column dorCatPI
Bowman, n. Y. a. c.; Morris, Yale; Rood,
Columbia. and Floyd. Navy; Floyd defeated
lumbia Fribourg defeated Bowman and
Rood Morris defeated Bowman. Rood and
, Fourth strip-Watson. Harvard. defeated
Sturhahn, n. Y. NJ. A; Houk, n. Y. NJ. A.
Glenn, Braden School. and Nelson. Brett
son. Houk and Sturhahn; Glenn defeated
Richards Houk and Nelson: Nelson defeat
ed Sturhahn, Richards and Houk; Sturhahn
defeated Houk and Glenn.
First two men on each strip fenced in
semi-fnals. On fourth strip triple tie for
second place was fenced off between Rich,
ards Glenn and Nelson. Nelson defeated
Glenn and Richards
First sepni-fnals eirst and second strips)
bia; Plumley defeated johnson and Brown;
Brown defeated johnson.
Second semi-tinals (third and fourth
strips Floyd defeated Watson and Nell
son. Watson defeated Barrett and Nelson.
Barrett defeated Floyd and Nelson.
ON fence-off of triple tie--F'loyd defeated
Barrett Watson defeated Barrett
Finals-Cirandfeld, Navy, defeated Wat
son, Harvard; Floyd, Navy, and Plunley,
Yale; Watson defeated Floyd and Plumley,
Floyd defeated Plumley.
Winnsrs-G randheld, Navy, first: Wat
son. Harvard second; Floyd, Navy. third
Epee, preliminary round - Hunter de-
feated Contrcras. Weld Cooke, Boyce.
Deland and Plumley; Cavers defeated
Contreras, Weld, Cooke. Shears, Deland
and PlWnley Shears defeated Huber.
Weld, Cooke. Ordway and Boyce; Com
treras defeated Cooke. Boyce. Shears
and Deiand; Huber defeated Weld. Cooke,
Boyce, Cavers and Hunter; Ordway de-
feated Contreras, Cooke. Hunter and
Cavers: Deland defeated Huber. Ordway.
Boyce and Shears; Plumiey defeated
Contreras. Weld, Boyce and Shears; Weld
/ defeated Contreras Ordway and Deland :;
Cooke defeated Deland, Boyce defeated
Cooke.
ssber preliminary round - Malstrom
defeated McCay. "a; Davenport, 7-2;
Sebright, II. Reaves, "a; Ferriera
Il. Walton defeated McCay. Il, Nal
strom, So Cooke, 7-2, Davenport, IS
Ferriera. Il. Guider defeated McCay
Il; Cooke Is; Davenport, "a Wal
ton IA, Sebright. s-6; Serriera. ID ;
Reaves defeated Cooke. "a Davenport
Ia; Sebright, IL. Guder. tt. Sebrgh int
defeated McCay. To. and Davenport
Il Ferriera defeated McCay 7-5, and
Cooke, ID McCay defeated Cooke, 10
Davenport defeated Ferrera. 1l-9.