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FENCING
io. The Army Fencing Union will not pay the expenses of any
team competing in any round of the Championship.
II.
The General Committee of the Army Fencing Union or a
Sub-Committee appointed by them for the purpose shall decide
any question connected with these Rules or arising from them.
THE MASKS FENCING CLUB
The Masks Fencing Club is a subsidiary of the Army Fencing
Union. It is organised and supervised by the General Committee
of the Union and run by the same officials.
Candidates to be qualified for election as members must be
serving in the Regular Army, Indian Army, Territorial Army,
Supplementary Reserve, Militia, Officers' Training Corps, Reserve
of Officers, Army Reserve, Territorial Army Reserve; or be retired
from, but still liable to recall to, the Indian Army; or be Gentlemen
Cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, or Royal Military
College, Sandhurst.
Subscriptions.—(a) Life membership : Officers and Cadets, £3 ;
Other Ranks, £i.
(b)
Annual (payable on October ist) : Officers,
ios. ; Other Ranks, 5s. ; Gentleman Cadets, 5s. An annual member
proceeding on service abroad may retain his membership for the
time he is abroad on payment of a registration fee of
1s.
This pay-
ment will entitle him to be kept on the books until he returns, without
payment of the annual subscription.
The objects of the Club are to arrange sufficient competitions,
handicaps and matches so that all members may gain experience
in competition fencing, to spread the camaraderie of fencing through-
out the Army, Reserve, Militia, Territorial and Cadet Forces, and
to further the true amateur spirit of the sport.
The Club has a big fixture list and has matches almost every
Wednesday and Saturday from October ist to March 31st. There
is no selection for teams and members get an opportunity for as
much fencing as they wish.
The Hon. Secretary of The Masks Fencing Club is Major
T. James, M.B.E., Army Physical Training Staff, Army School of
Physical Training, Queen's Avenue, Aldershot, from whom further
particulars may be obtained.
THE AMATEUR FENCING ASSOCIATION
Definition of an Amateur
An
Amateur Fencer is one who practises sport purely for the
love of sport and who has never derived any material profit from it.
Provided that this Article shall not apply to :
(a) Schoolmasters or school-teachers giving instructions in
gymnastics or fencing or other forms of athletics to their school
pupils as part of their school duties, and receiving no extra
remuneration therefor.
(b)
Judges and competitors who receive their actual hotel and
travelling expenses incidental to an athletic competition, provided