Sport: Fencing

Except for actors who have to get in trim for the moment when Macbeth tells Macduff to lay on, fencing is not a practical accomplishment in the modern world; it is, however, an exercise requiring excellent physical condition. Last week in Manhattan the Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored on any part of the body; with the sabre in the conventionalized contests that have developed from a ferocious slashing to a technique of no unnecessary movements, they beat the Fencers Club and the New York A. C. in the finals. Best match: the sabre encounter in which Peter Bruder of the Salle d'Armes Vince put out John Huffman of N. Y. A. C.