The sabre and the epee are warlike weapons, too unwieldy for women to handle. The lady fencers who attacked each other last week on the strips of the New York Fencers Club did it with light foils, buttoned at the tip. Last year's champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin.
Marion Lloyd, Miss Locke's clubmate who won the...
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