Show famed Fencing F Star ji ii Planning to Return 1 To Native Germany By KATHERINE BEEBE i Associated Press Sports Writer I ft OAKLA OAKLAND Calif Ja Jan 23 AP AP Helene Mayer spectacular fencer who will try to regain for Germany next August the rc crown she first captured at th the age of 17 is getting more excited every day at prospects of going home I 1 She L is I teaching her last at German Germant classes for tor or some time to come at I Milb fUJs college this week for she will leave Jea e within a a. few days for lor the east I and nd nd her home in Konigstein near Germany German r Frankfort Think of ot it she exclaimed Four Tour years it L is I since I saw them 1 IJ II my my mother and my brothers The little one is i-a a grown up genk gentleman gen- gen k tIeman he was but 15 when I left i Now he L is In the army I cannot realize It It Itt t The home wilt will be Ties new to her for forthe the the mother German widow of a Jewish Jew h physician moved from her herold told old one under the Hitler regime Likes America Helene blond as a Nordic Nordie prin- prin leess eess ceS kept cables busy recently be between between be- be tween tween teen German officials and the 1 American Olympics committee I when she he asked what citizenship I l rights might be hers if she agreed tto tho to represent the fatherland In the 1936 Berlin games Now o all that L is settled She and 1 lL her family too have citizenship rights Helene says it was no special ape ape- cial dispensation to her but just 1 Another new ruling more lenient to those who have two aryan grandI grand- grand I parents 1 4 These four years in America ji ave ve been the happiest of ot my life she he said Mid Still StUl I love Germany It Is very hard to live miles from home away from m my old mother Miss Mi Mayer ayer will go into rigid training in Germany under her old fencing tutor Professor Francesco She will strive to win back ack the Olympic title she won In 1928 at Amsterdam only to lose tour four years later in Los Angeles to the he Austrian Ellen Preiss r- r Three times she has won the wo wo- wo- wo mens men's national crown In this coun coun- try Because there are so few women women women wo wo- wo- wo men with skill to meet her powerful powerful powerful power power- ful foils she fences here mostly with men and last year caused a little sporting furor by winning the themen's themen's themen's mens men's San Francisco bay region championship She was wa about to be entered for lor the Pacific coast mens men's championship when New York fencing officials frowned upon the idea and passed a a. new rule to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- pre pre- vent it With a Bavarian peasant jacket over her magnificent nt shoulders she is a striking figure as she pilots her rickety roadster about th Mills campus She calls It Asthma her Asthma her staccato accent makes it into and and is trying tring to sell it Because there are never enough pennies you ou see she explained with a laugh But as for professional fencing No no Never Gladly I should wash dishes first in a restaurant Now It Is avocation It is fun If It I had to do it to earn a living I should perhaps hate it That would spoil everything |