Swordsmen to compete for Kansas AAU crown
By Ron Hanson
Members of KU's relatively unpublicized fencing team will be trying for state honors this weekend as they travel to Wichita to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), Kansas division state championship.
The Wichita meet marks a culmination of a season in which the KU fencers had a 2-6 collegiate meet record and a 13th place standing in the National meet held at Duke University in Durham, N.C., March 21.
THE JAYHAWKS in the state meet at Wichita will have six men entered in the epee (heavy sword) competition, six in the sabre (medium-weight sword) event, and eight in the foil (light sword) competition.
The meet is expected to draw about 40 fencers from throughout the state, and the top four finishers in each of the three events—sabre, epee, and foil—will advance to the national finals this summer in New York.
LAST YEAR KU had two winners in the state events; Esam El-Shafey, Cairo Egypt senior, won the epee competition and Mike Munson, Salina senior, won the foil event. Both are competing again this year and are favored to win again.
In the amateur open competition this year, KU had several outstanding performances. The amateur competition is not a part of regular collegiate competition and fencers participate only upon invitation. Munson won second place in the Wichita Invitational and third in the
Western Collegiate Championships at Illinois University.
EL-SHAFEY took 13th place in the National Championships at Duke and the entire KU team won the four-weapon invitational at Lawrence. In this meet women fencers competed along with the men.
El-Shafey was also a finalist in the Chicago International meet in April.
According to John Dillard, Jayhawk fencing coach, KU fencing should improve in the next few years as recruiting high school boys will become a regular part of the program. Although not many high schools have fencing teams, many good, all-around athletes make good fencers, according to El-Shafey.
STARTING members of KU's 1966 fencing team include: epee event-El-Shafey, Dick Courter,
Banquet to be held to honor professor
Edwin R. Elbel, professor of physical education and member of the KU faculty for 38 years, will be honored Saturday at a retirement dinner in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The veteran professor will retire in June and the honor dinner, sponsored by the KU athletic department, the department of physical education and the Lawrence Kiwanis Club, has been arranged in connection with the Kansas Relays with which Elbel has been so closely identified.
Salina junior, and Mike Weaver,
Kansas City junior; sabre—Steve
Corson, Kansas City junior; Bob
Kroeker, Great Bend sophomore,
and Chuck Hewins, West G-
ermany sophomore; foil—Munson,
Mike Hill, Kansas City sophomore,
and Bob Dillman, Kansas
City senior.
KU's Rifle Team, scoring 2,627, placed second in the Big Eight Gallery Smallbore Rifle Championship Tournament held Friday and Saturday at the Military Science Building in Lawrence.
OklahomaState took first place with 2,705 points while the University of Colorado claimed third with 2,618 points.
Riflemen nab 2nd in meet
Firing for KU were Charles Burre, Leavenworth senior; John Carnahan, Wichita junior; Richard Daly, St. Louis freshman; Malcolm Hillman, Wichita junior;
James Reynolds, Overland Park sophomore; Christopher Stark,
Bartlesville, Okla., freshman;
John Strahan, Salina senior;
Terry Waggoner, Media, Penn.
sophomore; Janet Whalen,
Wichita junior; and Charles Whited, Wichita junior.
John Strashen of KU also placed fifth in the individual high scores.
16 Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 20, 1966
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