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...inglorious showing of the sabre men was offset to a degree, by good performances in the point weapons. The epee team of Sam Anderson, John Hawkins, and Dave Moskowitz won six out of nine, with each fencer taking two of three...
Undoubtedly the high point of excitement of a dull match came in first-round epee action. Chris Jennings, Marion's premier epee fencer, got caught up in an act worthy of an Academy Award nomination as he feigned injury after two collisions with MIT's Bill Eckal, who displayed as much agility as Bubba Smith on roller skates. But in dramatic activity that Jennings manufactured he left out the winning climax, falling behind 3-2, 4-3 before bowing...
...matches. At number one, will be freshman Chris Jennings. Jennings has yet to lose for Harvard, sweeping four bouts in the first two matches. Against MIT on Tuesday, Jennings took three straight, but he did not look particularly sharp as he fenced sloppily and allowed a totally outclassed MIT fencer to take him, pressing him closely before Jennings triumphed...
...Jennings, the second half of the freshman "dynamic duo," will more than make up for the loss of Tatrallyay. "Jennings is as good, if not better than Geza," Marion said. Jennings is Under-Nineteen champion in both epee and foil, and is by far the most highly touted freshman fencer to come to Harvard in a long time, Jennings will probably take a right over at number one for Marion's epee squad...
ANDRE SPITZER, 27, was Israel's top fencing coach. He emigrated from Rumania in 1964, later trained in Holland. Spitzer was chief fencing instructor at the Orde Wingate Physical Education Institute, Israel's top institution for sports instruction. He leaves a Dutch wife, also a fencer, and a two-month-old daughter...