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up two more points for HS by taking third in the high. jump and it "·as the same Buckner who wound up our day's fun by tieing for third place in the pole v:mlt.
The luterseholastic Track )Jeet at tltc rnhwsity of Yir- ginia on )Jay 7 marked the clo:;ing of onr Track season, the most successful season Y. E. S. has ever bau. \\'e won the two meets with Roanoke High School and Lynchburg, the last named, by an overwhelming seore. In the triangulnr meet with \Voodberry Forest and St.n-esant we came second, and at Yirginia we scored more points than ever beforP.
The letters were awarded on the lOth, the "\'.s" going to Adkins, Braxton, Darst, Loth, J3rown, Terry (Capt.), Wil- son, S., Buckner, Hutter, B., and Michael, with the man- ager's monogram toP. Nash.
V. E. S., 7; R.-)J. A., 4
We won our second baseball game on April 22d, Ran- dolph-:Jlacon Academy being the losers. Bnk01·, twirling for the vi:;itors, could uot puzzle our batsmen, aud was touched for twelve safeties, and a total of sixteen bases. I.-eo's pitch- ii1g \Yas of high order and onr opponents could register only two hits, thPse coming in the eighth frame. Bnekner Jed the way with the stick, making two singles, a home-run, and a base on balls out of five trips to the bat.
We went after the visitors right in the first, scoring four runs on singles by Brown, Loth, nnd Buckner, a stolen base, and several infield errors. R.-)1. A. came back at us in the second inning, making three runs, n11 on errors. In the third session Buckner circled the bases on a deep smash to right- center, the ball rolling into the spring in the back of the field. In the eighth, we made our other two tallies, Humphries double driving in Buckner and Banks, who had gotten on