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...attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
Forrest Carter is number one sabre man and the varsity's number one fencer. He has the speed, footwork, and polished style in which Overholser is slightly shy, but he is not as dependable as the captain. If Carter would simmer down, he'd be another Joe Vera. He's in his last year...
...foils, 6 to 3, and the epee, 5 to 4. Kip Marsetta won his three sabre bouts and the total score stood at 13 to 13 before the last bout. Captain Warren Stone, who had already won two bouts, put on a magnificent performance to beat Clark's top fencer, Bob Greenlaw, and to give the Crimson the meet, 14 to 13. Stone has not lost a bout all season, and the freshmen are also undefeated...
Among them stood an American, handsome Robert Vogeler, 38, a graduate of Annapolis and M.I.T. He had come to Hungary in 1948 as U.S. representative of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Friends in Budapest and back home knew him as a skilled sportsman (fencer, marksman, skier, golfer) and a gay companion. One day last November...
Points are scored in that branch of the sport when a fencer hits any part of his opponents body. Previously, red ink had been used on the sword tips to indicate hits, but there was often uncertainty in close action as to which man made the first...