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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 13. 1964.

Fencing

Fencing

Victoria Fencers slashed their opposition to ribbons and left bloodied swordsmen all over the place—or would have if lethal-type weapons had been in use. It was really magnificent to watch a Victoria team completely dominate a sport—they won the men's foil, epee and sabre and came third in the women's foil, quite a performance.

David Lind-Mitchell, Zoltan Apathi and David Hurley took three of the four places in the NZU side that went down to Auckland 3-13, not too bad when it is remembered that Auckland has some of the country's finest fencers. Helen Schwarz was the outstanding female fencer of the tournament, dropping two games through carelessness only, and fought for the NZU women s team.