The University fencing team easily defeated Yale and Bowdoin in the preliminary round of the intercollegiate championship at the Harvard Club of Boston Saturday. The University fencers, Captain T. J. Putnam '15, A. B. D. DeKay '16, B. S. Nichols '16, A. Shortt '17, captured 15 bouts, Yale took 10, and Bowdoin was last with 2. Harvard and Yale thus qualified for the semi-finals at the Hotel Astor in New York on April 2 and 3. The other teams will be Annapolis, Columbia, Cornell, and Pennsylvania.

The University led Yale by one point at the end of the afternoon session but in the evening Harvard took all three bouts from Yale, and the entire nine from Bowdoin. Putnam went through the meet without being defeated.