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Show ROOSEVELT NOW GOES IN FOR THE FENCING SPORT Carries car He Received In Strenuous Bout With Gen. Leonard Wood Recently. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. President Roosevelt has abandoned practically, all of his indoor sports, and has now gone In with his accustomed vim for fencing. Gen. Leonard Wood, who Is back again in Washington from Germany, where theenclng cult flourishes,' 4s the other member. of the White House Fencing club, and Gen. Wood is the fencing master. The renovation of the White House has, of course, Included the attic, apd there Is the field of honor. A very close friend pt the President said, when the secret was out, that, the Bombatants met several evenings per week, and that occasionally the President goes over to Gen. Wood's house to get even with him for sundry" "palpable hits," with the foils and slashes with the broadsword. The exercise consists of the regulation- practice with the foils and broadswords. ' The President and Gen. Wood array themselves In padded jacket and. hoods, and occasionally they use a steel rapier, with button masks. The President has had the worst of it so far, accordlng'to the White House chronicler. The President has for some days borne over the left eyebrow & sear which was1 perpetrated, so to speak, by Gen. Wood. This la probably the result of abrasion by the button of a wooden foil. There are no returns In yet from Gen. Wood, but It Is not unlikely he bears some scars in invisible places. |