Harvard's varsity fencers have been looking like champs lately--against swordsmen who should have been matched with the freshman team.

Yesterday the Crimson squashed M.I.T. 17-10, for its third easy win in a row. Coach Edo Marion prevented a total rout by using second-stringers for two thirds of the bouts, but even the Harvard bench had little trouble clipping the Engineers.

M.I.T.'s foil men scared the Crimson by taking the first three bouts by 5-3 scores, but Harvard fought back with three straight wins in sabre. Winning two of three epee bouts, M.I.T. led after the first round, 5-4.

Harpard squelched the possibility of an upset by waltzing through eight bouts in the second round, dropping only one sabre match. Sophomore John Kruse set the pace for the round with an impressive 5-2 victory in the first bout over M.I.T. captain Paul Churinoff. The Crimson bogged down in the last round but won it anyway.

The varsity defeated a group of novices from Southeastern Massachusetts Technical Institute in a farcical 25-2 non-match Saturday. The Harvard freshman team won its first match of the season the same day against M.I.T., 18 to 9.

The Harvard varsity has a 3-1 record but hasn't seen a real fencing team since the match with N.Y.U. The New Yorkers won that one 18 to 9.

The Crimson gets another chance to fence competent swordsmen Saturday when it faces C.C.N.Y. in New York.