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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 12. 1967.

Fencing

Fencing

Fencing Honours must go to the women for all-round performance and to Jim Loh for his individual brilliance.

Although weakened by the absence of many of the stars who have made Victoria feared in the fencing world, the women's team performed excellently.

It was generally felt that their failure to win the women's foil, in which they were unbeaten, could be traced to a faulty spool in the Otago match. They had won the match 10—6 but because of a tie with Auckland individual bouts were made to count and the disputed bout proved crucial.

Greta Firth, who captained the NZU team, was outstanding winning 15 bouts from 16. Creditable performances were also turned in by Wendy Fletcher and Sue Norris.

The men's events were dominated by Otago generally and Peter Ring in particular. Victoria leaned heavily on Jim Loh's abilities.

Considerable though these were they proved insufficient to take the team to higher than third place. Loh went on to fence for NZU in their annihilation of Otago-Southland.

The only other male fencer of note this year was Owen Davies. His best effort was in the men's epee where he beat John Gordon of Auckland 5—1.