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...chess game, De Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button...
...cosmic fishing tackle, Columbia's Nyles Ayres piled up an early lead in his favorite weapon. Later he dropped back to second, but Lions Captain Barry Pariser slashed his way to the saber championship, Ralph De Marco earned a fourth place with his foil and, when the last fencer had saluted his opponent, Columbia's swordsmen were the undisputed champs. Final score: Columbia 62, Cornell 57, Navy...
Thomas downed the other two Yardling contestants in a round robin series Kirby Smith, also of Thayer South, placed-second in the Yardling matches. Michael Wald, the third Yardling fencer, is also a Thayer South...
...Crimson took the foil and sabre contests by identical 6-3 scores, but lost the epee, 2 to 4. Peter Boyce, the only Crimson fencer with previous experience, won all three of his foil matches, while Doug Runnels, David Silbert and Arthur Steinberg each took two out of their three sabre contests, and Phil Holcomb did well in the epee...
Phil Errard, varsity fencer, directed the event. John Livingston, also of the varsity, and Jim Harrison, a member of the freshman team, judged the matches...