The University fencing team will leave for New York tomorrow afternoon to participate in the preliminary bouts for the championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association to be held at the Hotel Astor. The tournament will begin Friday afternoon and will extend through to Saturday night. Besides the University, Columbia, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania, Yale and the Navy have entered teams.

The University will be represented by Captain W. H. Russell '18, E. R. Gay '19, and R. G. Crimmins '19, and each man will fence every man on the other five teams. Of the colleges entered, the University has defeated Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Columbia. This meet will decide both the individual and team championships. Annapolis was the victor last year in the team championships, Moquin of Columbia being the individual winner, although closely pressed by Captain Russell of the University team for first honors.

Captain Russell is favored by experts to win the individual championship this year. Beaten in last year's standing by only Moquin and White, he has improved greatly this season, and as neither of these men are now competing, the University fencer has an excellent chance to carry off first honors, with an undefeated record for this season to his credit.