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...Adair and Bill Chapplo each won all three epee matches and Philo Holcomb took two out of three to score another 8 to 1 victory. But the sabre entrants lost by the same score to make the final score 17 to 10. Saturday's win brought the team's record to three wins, two losses...
Newly-elected captain Klapper won two out of three in the foil, a feat matched by Douglas Runnels and David Silbert in sabre and Philo Holcomb in epee...
...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...
...dedicated to his job. Always first on the practice field and last to leave, he never stops polishing his passes. "He's slim (6 ft., 177 lbs.) but well-proportioned," says Coach Stuart Holcomb, "ideal for a T-quarterback. He's the most unusual boy I've ever seen. He can throw anything: fast, slow, long, short, lobs, bullets, dump passes; take your choice...
...nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever?") had its echoes two winters ago in Marine General O. P. Smith's description of the withdrawal from the Changjin Reservoir...