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Fencing fans here are going to be on a very meager diet this year, for Rene Peroy's swordsmen will play only three out of their ten meets at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Rene Peroy has been at Harvard for eleven years, during which time he has given us some of the best teams in the country, and at least two intercollegiate champions, one of whom went on to the Olympics at Berlin in 1936. This winter one of Harvard's strong points will again be in fencing, for the team may well lead the league...
...almost impossible to believe that Peroy won his first fencing prize in 1896. Short, with sparkling eyes, a greying military mustache, slight French accent and a barrel chest, he resembles nothing so much as a bamtam cock. Nearly every day, shortly ater luncheon, he pulls on his huge gloves, tips his mask over his face and begins to fence, not stopping till five o'clock or later...
...best fencer he ever fought, he will tell you, was Joe Levis, 1937 American amateur foil champion. And thereby hangs a tale, for that match was one of Peroy's last exhibition appearances. It was a sports announcer's dream of youth versus age and cunning, and true to the best Hollywood form, the old war horse won a smashing victory. His last touch was an artist's farewell, an inimitable stroke, a daring lunge so fast that it was never parried...
...drove racing cars, though he ruefully admits that he never won a race. Yet the most engaging thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance. His parries are slow and his disengage circles huge. Patiently Peroy begins to iron out the main difficulties, showing him how to put his feet, relax his wrist, lunge, cut to the head. At the end of about fifteen minutes, he salutes him as he would the most formidable opponent, smilingly steps up and shakes his hand, and beckons...