[1] The competition format continued the pool play round-robin from prior years.

Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.

Italy beat the Netherlands 13–3, the United States defeated France 11–5, the United States defeated the Netherlands 9–2, and Italy beat France 9–5.

In the first pairings, Italy defeated Belgium and Hungary beat the United States, each by a score of 10–6.

Hungary (9–1 over Belgium) and Italy (8–8 over the United States, prevailing by touches received 59–61) won again in the second set of matches as well.