The annual intercollegiate fencing tournament takes place tomorrow afternoon and evening in New York at the Racquet and Tennis Club. The competing teams are from Harvard, Columbia and Annapolis. Great interest has been taken in fencing this year among the cadets of the Naval Academy and three professors have been busily employed giving instruction. The Columbia team will probably be composed of Townsend of last year's team, and two of the three men who took part in the junior contest on April 5. The judges selected are Dr. Hammond and Mr. Shaw of the N. Y. A. C., Dr. Echeverria and Mr. Bloodgood of the Racquet and Tennis Club, and Mr. Tatham of the N. Y. Fencers Club. The judging is to be after the French method. Each man fences one four minute bout with every man of the opposing teams. There are to be no chalk points nor any stopping after touches. The decision is to be made on touches and good form.
The Harvard team, A. G. Thacher '97, J. P. Parker '96, and J. E. Hoffman '96, will leave this afternoon for New York.
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