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Chris Jennings, individual winner of both the foil and epee titles in last year's National Under 19 Fencing Championships, took second in foil and fourth in epee last weekend in a U.S. Under 20 World Team qualifying tournament held in Los Angeles.
Jennings, who was suspended from the Harvard fencing team when he opted to compete in the tournament instead of in the Crimson's regularly scheduled Cornell and Columbia matches, actually tied for first in foil, but lost the title in a fence-off with Indiana's Dave Littel.
Add to these woes the loss of standout epeeman Chris Jennings, suspended for the rest of the season by Crimson coach Edo Marion for skipping the match (and today's with Columbia) in favor of the qualifying trials for the U.S. Under 20 World Team, and the Harvard "season that...
By far the biggest surprise of the day came in epee, where, without Jennings, Harvard did not expect much. However, freshman Eric Read, in his first varsity match won three straight, 5-4, 5-2, 5-3, and Ken Bartels, who has had his troubles this year, came close to...
Besides the problem of replacing Jennings, Marion will be particularly concerned with the performance of his foil squad. In recent matches the foil men have been lackluster at best, and, since Marion have counted on the foil team to carry the Crimson, the letdown has been particularly disappointing.