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VoLmm XI, No. 7
V. E. S. LOSES TO D. M. I. BY ClOSE SCORE
COUNTRY RACE On Saturday night, J anuary 15th, Majority Are From "The Neigh- Day and Miles ·Lead the Garnet
hours," Which Was Practically · Representatives
Game Marked by Fast Floor-work
Danville Military Institute defeated V E S b tl l f2291
·composedofNewTalent
At a recent meeting of the V. E. S. won nearly all the honors in a cross-
Harmeling held the official wrestling
try-outs, the winners of which will
be placed against Augusta Military
Academy this Saturday. Some rare
form was shown in one or two in-
staJJces, and if the team can keep
their strength through their
strenuous training period they are
certain to be successful in their few
meets.
In the 105-lb. class J. Perrine won
by a throw over T. Smith in 1 min- ute and 30 seconds.
minutes.
In the 125-lb. class Munroe threw
Penn in 3 minutes.
Southall was the victor in the
135-lb. class by defeating Parrott by time. ·
In the 145-lb. class Constantine won by a throw over Cowper in 9 minutes and 2 seconds.
J . (Strangler) Lewis threw Wal- ton in the 158-lb. class in 3 minutes and 47 seconds.
In the unlimited class Taylor, P., defeated Hamner, D., by a throw in 1 minute and 35 seconds.
· · . Y 1ecosescoreo -~ at Danville in our first contest of the
The Virginia Episcopal runners Dramatic Society nine new members country race held in Lynchburg on
period. The
floor-work
was very
Brown Farinholt,
J ohn
H eald,
Ar-1 slowly,
knowing that they
faced a
DRAMATIC SOCIETY
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season.
In the first half the floor work
was fairly slow, and the Garnet and
White team was not working as well bours" which, with the exception of er, twenty-six men from various in- as they could, which was shown by Robert Morris, was composed entire- ,stitutions of the city took part in the the come-back that they made in the ly of new talent. 1'he great success race. Qnly eleven of these finished second half. of this play leaves no trace of doubt the gruelling six-mile comse, which
In this la t half both teams played as to the merit of these inexperi- wound in and out of the Lynchburg better ball than in the first. Barber, encecl actors, no one of whom had thorofares. Eight were from V . E. S. high-point man for V. E. S., made ever before appeared on the V. E. S. , A large crowd gathered to watch three of his four field goals in this ·stage. From this play Freel Cook, the start. All the runners started
fast, and the score wung from one thur Lamar, George Moore, Caskie f1arcl test. The highly heralded
side to the other with never a vari- Norvell, and Ronald Warburton ·Olympic runner was forced to stop
ance of over three points. With the were admitted into the society. after covering a short distance. At
score 21-20 for V. E. S. in the last Chesterman Constantine was the the turning point of the race Day,
two minutes to play, Goldy made a only new member from the cast of Meredith, Southall and Miles, all of
pretty shot from under the basket, "Q," which was otherwise compos·ecl V. E. S., were in the lead. Grant o.f
which unfortunately bounced out. of former actors. His admirable Lynchburg College had a stitch in
Our high hopes, however, were crush- portrayal of George Gnoof in this
his side which forced him to walk for several yards before being able
ed a moment later when Cowan, play gave him quite sufficient claim to resume the race.
of D. :i\1. I., had better luck, and to this houor. In no ways less bril- At the bridge five blocks from the tossed the ball in the basket as the liant was Duncan Hamner as the finish line Day was forced to stop
final whistle sounded. S
PLAYER
b9ld Andreas Bucquoi of '"l'he Dark because of a stitch in the side. At of the Dawn" which, without hesi- this point he and his teammates were
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earned
College. Ju st two
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passed by Grant an l Bryant, also
tancy,
him his °
J E T T DECEMBER 15th
of L ynchburg blocks fro m f a i n t e d .
Barber
R o b i n s o n ______________ F . 1
Young __________.__________F. 1 0-2 2 Virginia, gave a short talk in study of the finish line. A lane was open- Wilkinson ............G. 0 0-0 0 hall At tht' . tJ'me he expressed his ed for Grant but Day was forced
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Goldsmith ______________C. 3 0-5 6
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the finish I~JtenthclinVg Eto Ssprint the last ~~w
Farinholt ________________G. 0 0-2 0
Spruill ___.._____________G. 1 0-0 · 2 Robert Carter J ett, of Southwestern crowd which filled the street in front
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· to push his way through. The Lynch- 10 1-11 21 gratitude for being able to appear burg College runner taggered across
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2-9 22 vember 5th, and meet a new one, St. Christophers', October 1st, b o t h games being held on our own grid- iron. On October 23rd, relations are
carr~rng the same boys With the ex-
Referee : Umpire:
Dudley.
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again before the school of which he the finish line only five yards ahead
was formerly rector. His talk was of Day. Miles and Meredith then
F.G. Pts. mainlyJ or:tthhe subjehct ~f dthethmifnist- crossed the the line, taking third and
POS. G. Cook ............. .. ....... F . 0
Dameron ................C. 0 Beyton .................. G. 1 Gorden ..................G. 1 Prichard ................F . 2
PLAYER
Hardaway ..............F. 0
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0 try. n I , e emp asize e ac fourth places respectively.
that the church needed young men The runners finished in the fol-
1 to carry on its work, and at the end lowing order:
renton, where they visited Mr. the sch~ol_was officially closed and .Banks' sister and her family until
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A DIFFICULT SCHEDULE
A difficult schedule for the 1927
Adkins (L. H. ;) Whitehead (V. E. stances. Amid much Jubliabon and
S p i c e r
W e i n t z
G a b i l e
Cowan ..._________________G.
2 1-3 0 0-2 0 0-1
4 0-1
S.); Wayland (V. E. S.). - - - ,0- - -
revelry, trams were b?arded at all hours of the day until Lynchburg was vacant of V . E. S. students.
·But only too soon _January 3rcl rolled around and Wlth 1t trams
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0 football team ha been arranged by 8 lVfr. Crockett. They are to play our old riYal Episcopal High on No-
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again resumed with Augusta Mili- tary Academy after a lapse of two
years.
The scl1edule is as follows :
October 1-St. Christophers', here. October 8- Wooclberry, Orange. October 16- Fishburne, here.
October 23-Augusta Military Aca- demy, Ft. Defiance.
shadowe~ these boys who only a short tated his removal to the Virginia hme before had been m the highest
HAS
Mr. Crockett has announced the final change in the basket-ball sched- ule. J anuary 19th was left open, the team not meeting any school at that time. The game with Fish- burne, planned to be held on Febru- a.ry 5th, has been cancelled, but the GarDet and White quint is to meet
the Carolina Freshman on the fourth of that month, to make up for the cancellation.
BASKET-BALL SCHEDULE BEEN CHANGED
Baptist Hospital Friday. He was spmts·.. When It was learned that towns on his return to V. E. S. from
enrollment.
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VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA ========~~~~~~~~~~~~~~== ======~========
NINE NEW MEMBERS VOTED INTO
V. E. S. SHOWS UP WELL IN CITY CROSS
JANUARY 21, 1927
WRESTLING TRYOUTS HELD HOLIDAYS SPENT IN
were enrolled. The majority of these December 16th. Lured by the at-
yarcts, e . <.. • runners were CllS- On the 15th of December, Bishop. mayed at the appeara.nce of a huge
and gone, we have nothing to do but recall happy memories and to think of the coming spring vacation. Thanks to Mrs. Holt, on the night of December 17th, the school enjoyed a wonderful dinner in celebration of the coming Yule-tide. The tables were appropriately decorated with
Christmas trees and all indulged in eatmg the many luxunes spread be-
fore them.
Satm-day, Decemb~r 18th, at noon,
Detroit while another came up from Murfreesboro, Tenn. The other two were from Randolph- Macon · Wo- man's College here in Lynchburg. The main diversion that they had, other than that which Lynchburg of- fered, was trying to keep in out of
the rain.
Mr. and Mrs. Banks stayed at V.
E. S. through the Sunday after Christmas and then motored to War- ·
0 he exhorted all boys who were so in- 2 clinecl to take up this work.
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4 V. E. S. FOOTBALL TEAM FACES (V. E. S.) ; Hutche on (V. E. S.) ;
October 30-Danville Military Aca- rlemy, Danville.
announcement
con-
will probably pass his English this During the holiday Mr. Banks
Xovember here.
Xovemher :-\ ove m b er
5 -Episcopal
Grant (L. C.); Day (V. E. S.); Miles (V. E. S.); Meredith (V. E.
the maJor~ty of us hastened away from our future Alma Mater. This date i still official even though de
the New Year. Twice during the holidays Mr. Banks• ventured to Lynchb~g to play the organ at the
Court St. Methodist Church.
Our English professor's car seems to have been causing him a con-
siderable bit of trouble recently. On one of his trips to Lynchburg he was "pulled" for parking in the wrong place. However, this Wll8 nothing compared to the wild ex- citement on New Year's Day. Mr. Banks had an engagement to play the organ at the Court St. Methodist Uhurch, but he had neglected to pur- chase a new licens