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...best part of the meet ought to be the saber event. Last year's captain. John Gay, returned from a vacation in Maine last month and has spent most of his time practicing in the Indoor Athletic Building. A real slam-bang artist, Gay will fence as number one man in sabers...
...Harvard lineups: Foils: Rancy, Verd, Arp, Epee: Ager, Constable, Yates. Saber: Gay, Masterson, Carter...
...good news came when John Gay returned to Harvard to finish off his senior year. Gay was a hard-hitting, razzle-dazzle saber man who slashed his way up to the Number One spot on last year's team, was elected captain, and suddenly lit out from the College before getting a degree...
...McNeil have graduated, and this year's Douglas Fairbanks is a sophomore named Fels Carter. Carter is inmber three man in the saber department right now, behind Tom Masterson and Bob Westhrin, who play a little more soberly. The saber is always the best weapon for razzle-dazzle stuff, since duellers can use the side of the sword to score touches. In the epee and foil, only the point counts...
Westhrin and Ray Pierce, who also rates high on the saber ladder, are sophomores. In the other weapons, '51 doesn't do so well and the old-timers take over. Captain John Ager is top man in epee, a three-sided sword with a cup-shaped hilt, Giles Constable and Masterson fill up the top three, and may be the group to face Bowdoin in the first game this February...