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Although foil fencer Eric Mandelbaum lost the next bout, fellow foil fencer Dave McClees, 2-1 on the day, made the score, 8-6 by taking the last three touches in a 5-3 decision...
...Foil fencer Gene Vastola asked the director for time, took hold of the end of his blade and began to bend it to the desired shape; the blade broke. That episode typified Harvard's experiences Saturday as Princeton turned a fencing match that was supposed to be close into an 18-9 shellacking...
...Crimson fell behind the Tigers early, trailing 6-3 after the first round of bouts, and only once looked capable of catching Princeton. When the score went to 7-3, sabre fencer Richard Gillette edged Princeton co-captain Steve Adler, 5-4, shook his fist and marched back to his teammates with a look of intense determination...
...their favorite psychological ploys is typified by the first story above. Either an onlooker or the fencer himself will make the tacit assumption that they or their man has won the point. The most dramatic method of assumption is the ripping off of a mask by a fencer who believes he's made the fifth and bout-winning touch...
...What fencers do not know or, at least, ignore, is that director's maintain that premature assumptions cost rather than gain duelers points. Directors depend on their ability to re-create what has happened as an image in their brain. And, as local directors Gabor Demjen and Israel Colon explain, when their attention is distracted by a fencer or someone on the sideline, their re-creation can be confused and they are forced to rule no touch...