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Luck Leading Hurler
rival.
Both sides showed up very well,
making the contest both interesting and instructive. The winners quali- fied for the state contest, to be held in Charlottesville in May. M'r. Banks secured t h r e e prominent Lyn chburg citizens for judges: namely, Dr. Geisler, professor of psy- ~hology at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Mr. Blume, head of the En- g l i s h Department at Lynchburg High School, and Mr. Wagner, Di- rector of the City Department of Public Safety. S. Preston Luck, head counsellor of the school, pre-
sided over the contest, while John Maury Miles was the time-keeper.
Reading First
By 8:30 p. m. Study hall was
packed with visitors, teachers, and
VoL. XII, No. 11
ONE-ACT PLAYS GIVEN
BY DRAMATIC SOCIETY
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
MARCH 15, 1928
SEVENTH CONTEST LOST TO ST. CHRISTOPHER'S
Boggs and Hillier Win Debate but Causey, Lamar, and Davidson Lose
HEAD COUNSELLOR PRESIDES
Reading and Public Speaking Con· tests Close- Debate Won Unanimously
In the seventh annual literary
contest between the two schools,
which was held last Saturday night,
the St. Christopher's School of Rich-
monel triumphed over V. E. S. team
by taking two of the three events on the program. The visitors· were awarded a close decision in the read- ing and public speaking while V . E. S. won the debate by a unanimous vote. Last year in the contest at Richmond, V. E. S. won from her
Second· Plays
H it-"The Florist Shop" Is Best
COACH GANNAWAY SAYS BALL TEAM TO BE GOOD
Batteries and Infield Fairly Well Taken Care of but Fly Chasers Scarce
"I think that this year's season in baseball will be a successful one. Be- cause of the cold weather which has permitted so little practice I can't Sil.Y very much about the prospects
CREDITABLE SHOWING MADE BY BASKETEERS
Teath Handicapped by Lack of Let- ter Men; Barber and Lee Cop High Point Honors
The 1 9 2 8 basket-ball s e as on,
though not outstanding as success-
ful in the number of games won,
still was highly satisfactory. With
only one letterman back few could
have expected a, brilliant record, but
'IS it was, the team won five games
and lost to five other schools which is
distil1ctly not a poor showing, espe- cially since in two of these games lost, one field goal would have made a difference in the verdict. The G.
A. A. awarded seven varsity letters. Those who received the monogram vere: Captain Barger, forward; May-
of Season Performance of Evening
BASKET-BALL V's AWARDED
School Orchestra Directed by Mr. Harrell Furnishes Music :Between the Plays
Make :Big
The V. E. S. Dramatic Society for the different positions."
gave its second presentation of the school year on March 3. The pro- gram again was a group of three one- act plays which was heartily enjoyed by all the. audience, and was ac- claimed by general opinion as good as, if not better than, the pre-Christ- mas program. "The Florist Shop" by Winifred Hawkins, though first on the program, was the outstanding performance of the evening although the other two were not far below its standard.
This, in short, is :Hr. Gannaway's opinion of the coming baseball sea- son. He mentions also that we have
The school orchestra, composed of With the little practice that the Wiley Cave and Lewis Shrady, saxo-
Lynchburgers Judge
a baseball
High School at the Fair Grounds on
April14, and one here at a later date. We also play Swavely at Manassas the Friday preceding the E. H. S.
game, giving the team t rip.
a two
day
forward;
game with
L ynchburg
Dr. William Gibson Pendleton, for was elected manager again for the C. Harrell, professor of French and standing players uncovered. Luck eight years rector of V. E. S., for- 1929 season.
phone artists, and Director Hanson team has had there have been no out-
Latin, playing the piano, furnished
music before the initial rise of the the mound position but he is being the school board last week. He has Coach Payne had the misfortune curtain and also between acts. Dur- pushed by Armstrong, P ayne, and accepted a call from the Grace Me- to lose two promising candidates be-
ing the second intermission Mr. Gan- Luckie. There are few catchers on morial Church of Lynchburg. This fore the first game, and was faced naway, athletic adviser, awarded the the squad at present but Hamner church is now under construction in with the situation of building a com-
monogram certificates to the. basket- ball lettermen. Because of other diversions the number of Lynch- burgers in the audience was de- creased, but although the audience
and Turner are the most promising the Fort Hill section of the city. of these. Did Much for School
paratively new team from green ma- terial which lacked big men. Lynch-
Florist Shop First
The curtain rose at 8 :30 on the first production, "The Florist Shop" by Winifred Hawkins. The scene was laid in Slovsky's Florist Shop. The plot centered about the efforts
ud e,
by George Moore, to accelerate the marriage of Mr. Jackson and Miss Wells, who had been engaged for fif-
C. being among those whose skill it still is the best Preparatory School second game of the season 55-11 ;
of ~Th
t h e
b o o k k e e p e r ,
p l a y e d
V. E. S. students.
ing a.ddress by Luck, the contest
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REv. WrLLIAU G. PENDLETON, D. D.
DR. PENDLETON RECTOR OF FORT HILL CHURCH
Resig·ns Position at V. E. S. to Take Over Local Parrish
Lee, center ; Luck, guard ; Armstrong,
seems to be making a strong bid for mally turned in his resignation to Loss of Two Men Early Handicap
It seems that Lee, Barber and Dr. Pendleton has done the school burg High won the first game of the
Grumiaux will be in the infield some- an enormous amount of good during season, 43-20, and pulled the same
where. There is a fast race being his rectorship. He improved and re trick again later in the season by a was smaller than that of the previous made for the position at the initial modeled the athletic field and the 3.5-15 score. But the red team over-
program, it was highly appreciative. sack Roe, Giles, Hobbs, and Harris, "fi:ack was built while he was here and whelmed Bedford High School in the
appears equaJ.
Outfield UnceTtain
It is hard to pick three playerR that show an advantage for the out- field positions. Raymond, King, Barnes, and Gulick seem to show about the same ability.
As a whole it seems, however, that
from this material a good t ea m
'l'rack in the state. He also built the then nosed out Danville 33-31; and tennis courts. It was throng his routed Hargrave 28-20. The team
teen years. These parts were taken
tively. Her efforts brought ab?ut nothing unusual, seems to think that Mr. Gannaway and Mr. Dawson were
should make its' appearance. Mr.
by Joe Stras and Fred Cook respec- Gannaway, although looking for Banks' home and the duplex one for the V. E. S. basketeers were on a two
her discharge by Slovsky, N e 111 we should have a successful season. Raymond, the J ewish proprietor,
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LAMB AND LANGHORNE ARE NEWCOUNSELLORS
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In Study Hall on Tuesday night, February 28th, Dr. Pendleton an- nounced to the school that Maurice
Owen Lamb and "Sonny" Lang- horne had been made counsellors. Both are well qualified to hold their positions, Lamb having been at V. E. S. for four years and Langhorne
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won the City Championship, wh1le Langhorne is one of our crack cheer leader . Both are noted for their wit and are very popular 'vith the
student body. Lamb, better known as "Sheep," comes from Covingtol?, and "Sonny" claims Pula~1 as h1s home. It is general feehng about the school that the new counsellors
were well chosen.
LUCKIE LEADS UNUSUALLY
MARKS
for three.
Lamb small in stature, was cap-
Eighteen Make 90 Per Cent; Average of 86 PeT Cent Needed
During the fifth scholastic month, the grades, as usual after the mid- year examinations, showed a decided improvement over those of the pre- vious months. No less than eighteen fellows attained the 90% standard, and ten averaged between 86% and the Honor Roll. According to Mr. Mattfield, this is the largest Honor Roll within the last four years, if not the largest, in the history of V. E. S. Robert Luckie, Fifth Former from Frederick, ~fttryland, headed t h i a record breaking list with a general
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tain of the Boys' football team, whi.ch
strenuous efforts that the present smoking rule was drawn up and passed by the board of visitors. This rule probably aided to change the spirit of the school toward a more
was showing marked improvement while the season progressed and next defeated Augusta 31-28.
Games Away Unsuccessful
After a welcom- opened with the prepared reading.
However playing away from home friendly and trusty feeling between the team was not so successful.
Davidson, V. E. S., first read a selec- tion from Messer Marso Polo by Don Byrne with clarity and distinctness. Rutherford of St. Christophers fol- lowed by reading a part of Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." He was the best
reader of the evening. Next Lamar of V. E. S. read a selection from Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Hobson of St. Christopher's was the last to read a prepared selection; his was from
"The Tell-tale Heart" by Poe. (Continued on page 3)
the faculty and students.
During his rectorship, both Mr. won games on successive clays while
1928 BASKET-BALL T"E.AM
bank,
guard;
center and forward; Harris, C., for- ward and guard. Causey received the regular l etter as· manager. He
Weeks,
Episcopal High and Swavely both