COLLEGE FENCERS MEET TODAY

The northern division preliminary trials for the championship of the intercollegiate Fencing Association will be held in Harvard Hall, at the Harvard Club, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 and this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The fencing teams of Harvard, Bowdoin, and Yale will compete, there being 27 bouts in all each man meeting all the members of the other teams. The two highest teams will go to New York to participate in the final championship matches at the Hotel Astor on April 2 and 3. Tickets may be obtained free at the H. A. A. Office.

The University team, composed of A. B. DeKay '16, B. S. Nichols '16, captain, T. J. Putnam '15, and A. Shortt '17, although defeated by Yale in an unusually close match at New Haven earlier in the season, has a good chance to win as its record so far shows eight victories. The Yale team, composed of Downey, Little, Nickerson, Pfieger, has won five of its six meets.