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Show FENCERS TO BEGIN SERIES OF MEETS New ork. .Ian 3 American ama-teur ama-teur fencers who have cherished for several cars the project of an international inter-national match said toda that a provisional pro-visional challenge, had been Bent to the English amaterua to vtall this iMiirifr and compete foi an international interna-tional trophy similar to the West- : Chester polo cup or the Davis cup in lawn tennis J. Sanford Saltus, long a patron of American fencers, is said to have offered to provide the trophy W Scott O'Connor, secretary of the Amateur Fencers league 'r America, sad that the plan was the direct outgrowth out-growth ol the Olympic competition In which cioSM fellowship waa established establish-ed between the English and American teams "At that time.'' he said, the Englishmen promised th it if a trophj I w as ottered a team of four men would j visit this countrr to compete for It." 1 He said it wsk hoped to make ibis match th heginning of a series of international affairs which would later la-ter include French and Italian amateurs. |