EUROPEAN SKIER AND FENCER TO INSTRUCT AT DARTMOUTH

Anthony Diettrich, of Budapest, a Lieutenant-Colonel of the former Austro-Hungarian Army, commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army fency instructors' course, and winner of the sabre fencing championship of the last army competition in 1914, has been appointed a member of the Physical Education Department at Dartmouth and is expected to arrive in America early in March to assume his duties as instructor in fencing and skiing.

Colonel Diettrich was several years ago at the head of the small group of European skiers who specialized in high Alpine skiing and founded the present vogue of skiing in Switzerland. He was the first man to ascend on skis practically every mountain in the Eastern Alps, the Carpathians and Norway. For a number of years he served with the regiment of Riflemen of the Tyrol and drilled whole companies in Alpine skiing. He has been also a writer for the Annual of the Central-European Ski Association, an organization numbering now more than 250,000 members.

For a number of years Colonel Diettrich was an instructing officer of fencing in the Austro-Hungarian Army and won awards in various fencing tournaments, becoming eventually Commander of the Army fencing instructors' course. He was graduated from the Military Fencing and Gymnastics School for Fencing Masters at Wiener-Neustadt which was with the Scuola Magistrale di Roma, the most renowned school for fencing in Europe, and was diplomed a teacher and trainer for sabre and foil fencing, Italian School. Because of his superiority as a teacher he was designated to become commander of the school after the war and to revive and reorganize it. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy made this, impossible.

Colonel Diettrich's chief aim is the sabre, as this is generally favored in Hungary, and Hungarian sabre fencers are generally recognized as the best at every contest of the Olympiades. His proficiency with the sabre made Colonel Diettrich a choice among Hungarian masters for the Olympiade of Berlin planned for 1916. In addition to his skill with the sabre Colonel Diettrich is known as an able foil-fencer and was the trainer of Dr. Lichtneckert who won the high school championship in foil fencing in 1912 and in 1913 both in Austria and in Hungary.

Colonel Diettrich is a member of the Magyar Athletikai Club, of Budapest, renowned for its fencers, and, as a recognized expert has been engaged and certificated since 1910 as an umpire for the championship of the Vienna Academy of Fencing Art.