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...other Harvard fencer in the finals, foil man Phillipe Bennett, improved on his first-day record in the finals, but still came out with an ignominious 5-18 bouting record...
...epee, Risto Hurme from NYU and Ernesto Fernandez from Penn are in a hotly contested race for the individual title. Hurme has lost once, Fernandez twice, and the two epee men will meet in today's competition. The match should be a classic. Both fencers are Olympians, Hurme for Finland and Fernandez from Mexico. They are outstanding fencers of completely different styles. Hurme is a "tempo-rhythm" type of fencer, who always keeps moving; Fernandez is basically a point man, working around the arms and going for the feet...
Crimson foil man Phillipe Bennett and sabre fencer Terry Valenzuela had little trouble making the finals for Harvard, but captain-elect Eugene White found the going in epee to be rougher than he could handle and did not qualify...
...finals will be run as a round robin competiton, with each fencer facing each other fencer at some time during the two days of the finals...
...White is a very disciplined fencer, who had not even fenced until he came here," Crimson coach Edo Marion said last night. "He will make a good captain...