The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-01
NAVY SCORES CLEAN
SWEEP AT FENCING
Regains Title in Intercol-
lcgiatc Tourney-Individ-
ual Honors for Shears.

The United States Naval Academy
scored a clean sweep In the intercol-
legiate fencing championships. which
came to close last night at the Hotel
Aston regaining the Col. Robert W.
Thompson trophy the Little Iron
Man." emblematic OF the title, which
1t held in 1919 and 1920.
The Navy carried off the foils title
with As bouts won and . lost. Curtis
c.. Shears of Navy was the individual
winner, with loss OF but one bout
out of eighteen. Alvin Becker. another
Midshipman, last years foils champion,
was second with Is won and lost. Ed
ward l.. Lane OF Harvard and Rein
hold Hertzberg of Dartmouth tied for
third with Is and 5. Alfred Walker of
Yale, Denis Bencoe OF Columbia. and
George Huntington Of Iale were tied
for fifth with T..
Harvard finished second for the foils
team title, with 80 bouts won. Columbia
was third with 80, Dartmouth and Yale
tied with 2s, followed by Massachusetts
Institute OF Technology and Penn with
16 and respectively.
The Middies marched off with the
sabres and epee individual titles, and
annexed the sabres team title. which
was awarded for the first time this
year.
Charles Galloway won the epee cham
pionship with loss OF only one bout
out Of ten. George Hunter. teammate,
last years title holder. tied for second
with John S. Barss of Harvard, with 8
bouts won. Hunter with q chance of
tying Galloway lost his last bout to
Taylor OF M. l. r., 2 touches to /.
John w. Guidor OF the m!ddies was
the sabers gold prize winner, and with
J. 4. stuart captured the team title
with loss OF three bouts out OF twenty.
Penn finished second in the team rank
ing, with Dartmouth. M. l. T. and Yale
trailing in that order.
The members Of the teams were as
follows:
Navy--Folls: Alvin Becker. Curtis S.
Shears, ". Macklin Floyd. Epee: George
Hunter. Charles Galloway. Sabers !:
John W. Guider, j. a. Stuart. NJ. ]. t.
Foils, opee and sabers: James Nesmith.
Claus Thellefsan. @. A. Ferreya, j..
Borchgrevink. p. Taylor. Penn--Foils !:
Herman Hettinger. David Cavers. DON
aid Thompson. Sabers: John Sebright
Nelson Brown. Epee: Carl Funk,
George. Phil S. Shoemaker.
Columba-Iroils, Denis Bencoe, Ralph
Nahon, Harold Bloomer. Philip Farley;
sabers. Edgar Ferriera: epcc, Fred HUI
Der, Harry Bierschent.
Dartmouth Foils, Frank Robbins,
Frank Chapman, Edmund fIawlcy
epce, Harry Lilac: sabers. Reinhod
Hertzberg. George Cooke.
Harvard--.Foils and sabers, Burke
Boice. William n. Brewster, Everett III.
Lane, Edward l.. Lane; epee, Clarence
Shearn, John S. Barss, John X. Watson.
Yaie-Foils and sabers. Alfred y.
Walker, r. w. Davenport. w. c. Briggs,
J. n. Hanway, George Huntington, w.
9. Herman; epee, L. Riley, l.. l.. Mac
Kenzie.
The summaries:
EVENING BOUTS.
FOILS.
DARTMOUTfI--1.iao defeated Waller, To:
Shoemaker, I'll; Royce, u.s. Hertzbers
defeated Briggs, I'D; Bloomer, 70,
Cavers I'll; II. VI. Lane, rs.
COMMUNICATIONS defeated Becker. I'd
Bencoe defeated IIawley, I'll; Briggs, I'll.
Farley defeated Lao, I'd.
YALE--lIuntlngton defeated Hawiey, 10.
Farley. To; Cavers, I'll Walker do
feated Hloomer. i-6 Briggs defeated
IfARvARD--rl. l.. Lane defeated schoemaker
ffor 1iottinger). To-; Chapman Cfor 1law-
iey). 7--l. Boyce defeated Cavers, "a;