"Lunge, thrust and parry--speed, grace and skill." Photo shows Joan Archibald of Canada, at left, and Eugenia Escudero of Mexico in midst of an Olympic Games fencing bout which ended in triumph for the Canadian "queen of the foils" over the 17-year-old senorita. Each of these girls is the only contestant of her nation in the feminine fencing competition of flashing blades swung by deft wrists of masked figures. Photograph dated August 3, 1932.
160th Regiment State Armory (Los Angeles, Calif.) Olympic Games--(10th :--1932 :--Los Angeles, Calif.) Athletes--Mexico Olympic athletes--Mexico Women olympic athletes--Mexico Athletes--Canada Olympic athletes--Canada Women olympic athletes--Canada Fencing--California--Los Angeles Armories--California--Los Angeles Fencing for women--California--Los Angeles Spectators--California--Los Angeles Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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