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...three Crimson fencers turned in good scores, but it was Kirsch who provided the thrills as well as the top tally. The little (5-7) senior ripped off 10 wins in his first 10 bouts, winning against his toughest competitors before running into trouble with some relatively mediocre competition...
...surprising Crimson squad, 11th out of 12 teams in the Easterns last week, rode the spindly shoulders of bespecacled foil fencer Dan Kirsch into a four-way tie for fourth place with 46 points, just three behind the leader, Navy...
...Kirsch, who wound up a strong third among individual foil fencers with a 17-4 total, turned in victories over Brooklyn's David Blumstein (15-6), Cornell's All-Ivy Ron Schwartz (16-5) and Navy's Frey Raymond (17-4). But the Crimson foilman dropped bouts to Air Force's Gene Pottenger (11-10), Harry Pratt (11-10) of Trinity, and Mike Dwytryk (11-10) of U.C.L.A., as well as Columbia's prize sophomore Steve Weinstein...
...goes into tomorrow's final rounds trailing Princeton's Bill Hicks (18-1) and N.Y.U.'s Eastern champion Marvin Garovoy (18-2). Kirsch will face both men during tomorrow's action, which gets underway at 8:15 a.m. in the IAB, and should be over about...
...Kirsch's fencing style is often unorthodox, although effective. He tends to "fight" when he fences, frequently neglecting classical manuevers for a fierce, direct attack...