The preliminary bouts for the championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association will be held in Harvard Hall at the Harvard Club of Boston, Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, and Saturday evening at 8.30. Teams from Harvard, Yale, and Bowdoin will compete, there being 27 bouts in all. Each man will fence every man of the other two teams, and the two teams winning the greatest number of bouts will compete in the finals at the Hotel Astor in New York two weeks later. Admission will be by complimentary tickets which may be procured from any member of the team.

The University team will be composed of Captain W. H. Russell '18, E. P. Hamilton '18, and G. H. Code '18. The Yale team will consist of Captain R. P. Pflicger, E. N. Little, and F. D. Downey, while Captain H. L. Hargraves, J. E. Gray, and S. L. Hanson will represent Bowdoin.

The University team defeated Bowdoin 8 to 1 earlier in the season, and lost to Yale 4 to 5. Bowdoin was defeated by Yale 1 to 8. In the finals, the two qualifying teams will compete with Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis. The original plan was to have preliminaries also between teams from Columbia, Cornell, and Technology, and between Princeton, Annapolis, and Pennsylvania with the object of eliminating one from each group leaving six teams in all to compete in the finals. Since Technology and Princeton have failed to enter, however, these preliminaries have been rendered unnecessary.