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Forest affair
This comedy, as many of our Anderson, the readers doubtless know, is based up- Randolph-Macon Academy captain, on the popular stories about the
VoL. XV, No.9
VIRGINIA EPISCOP AL
SCHOOL,
L YNCHBURG,
VIRGINIA
MARCH 12, 1931
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AMITCHELL SPE•KS ON RUSSIA
TO STUDENTS HERE
Talk Sponsored by Art and Music Study Club of the School
Through the Art and Music Study Club the Virginia Episcopal School was able to come in contact with Dr. Anna Mitchell, an authority on Rus-
sian affairs, who delivered a very in- teresting talk to the student body on Thursday night, March 5th.
Dr. Anna Mitchell was born in Colorado and has lived in the West for the greater part of her life, how-
ever, she has traveled extensively. In 1910 she went to India where she re- mained for five years. Lately she re- turned from a six year visit in Russia where she has lived, mixed, and worked with the Russian people. As
a result of her visit she has written a very interesting book on Russia, "Tramping Through Russia at
Fifty."
The subject of her talk was based
on the life, work, and troubles of the Russian people. By the use of sev- eral maps she was able to point out the majority of the places which she talked of during the evening. Dr. Mitchell discussed the daily life of Russian peasants, their homes and their food, proving that the life of a peasant was everything but healthy imd happy. They work from sun- rise to sunset and families from six to twelve and often more were found crowded in a little one room house, which sometimes had one bed, a stove and a table sleeping on all of this
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W. F. S. EASILY DOWNS GARNET QUINT 35-14
THE FIRST SQUAD, BASKETBALL 1931
terson, diminutive Woodberry fl oor BISHOP QUINT OVER- guard, played a head -up game at all
CONRAD SINKS FOUL IN LAST SECONDS TO
END UPHILL CONTEST
Felker, Greenbrier Forward, I s High Scorer, Followed by Harris,
Garnet Captain
In a thrilling extra period basket- ba ll game the Virginia E spiscopal School cagers fought their way to an uphil] victory over a very determined quintet of the Greenbrier Military School by the score of 40-39 at Lew- isburg, West Virginia, Wednesday, Fehruary 25th.
C'aptain Charles Harris led the Bishop offense, gathering a total of thirteen points; he was closely fol-
lowed by Harrison who gathered eleven points. Williams played an excellent game at guard and held off the Cadet attack several times alone. Conrad deserves much credit for his work and especially for the accuracy in the final shot of the game when he scored the winning point on a foul shot in the last five seconds of play. Felker, Greenbrier forward, was the main threat for the Cadets, scoring
"ixteen points and playing a very consistent game. Brubeck, lanky Greenbrier center, . was outstanding
ing Woodberry Forest School played stellar basketball to oYercome a pow- erful Virginia EpiRcopal School court aggregation by the impressive score of 35-14 at Orange on Febru-
proces which he repeated four more times before the end of the game. After this the Forestmen took the game in hand and counted basket after ba. ket, while Taylor ann Pat-
The second half turned out to be
score in the final scheduled game of
the basket. In this last quarter the Garnets barely outscored the Bed-
The Woodberry team had ning, when led by Harmon, sharp-
ary 21st.
the game in the bag from the begin-
Lyn chburg team
hooting forward, the)' ran up a sub-
tantial lead before the Bishop at- tack coull start fmJctioning proper- ly. The game was a slow affair all the way through, and turned out to be a rough-and-tumble fray, and the Bishop captain, Charlie Harris, was blocked at eve1-y turn, and was able to add but three points to his envi- able total.
The boys from Orange presented a smooth working quint, and two especially neat basket-ringers in Cap- tain Weaver and Harmon. The guarding of Taylor, W. F. S. sta- tionary guard, deserves mention, and the Woodberry team was clicking in
every department of the game. Pat-
and now stands in the lead of the
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times, and was largely responsible
for the lack of a heavy total of points
WHELMS R.-M. A. FIVE total to six points as the quarter F elker made two straight snowbirds,
in the Bishop scoring column.
The V. E. S. team had no par- Harris Leads Garnet Cagers with
ended with the Episcopalians on the and Conrad scored for the Garnets; long end of a 22-6 score. then Felker added four more points
Captain Harris, who had been to the Green and White score, with
ticularly outstanding players on the court, though the guarding of Wil- liams wa a bit above the average. Captain Harris was car efully watched, aml though his pasRing
game was up to par, he wasn't able to break into the limelight through a heavy barrage on the basket.
Seventeen Counters to His Credit
PASSWORK IS POOR Captain Anderson Stars for Cadet
Quint, Ringing Up Twelve Points
Brubeck adding a goal now and then. first half, came into his own in the Harris and Harrison accounted for
W. F. S. Takes Lead
The game opened with Formwalt, form, the Garnet-clad basketeers of lead over the Yellow and Black
Playing far below their usual Orange Clad Cagers Take Command- Garnet pivot man, making a snow- Yirginia Episcopal School complete-
cagers.
The final frame opened with Wil-
hi rd from under the basket. Har- ly routed the Randolph-Macon Acad- mon soon followed this 11ith a neat emy quintet in the Barksdale Gym-
R.-M. A. Rallies
son sinking a "pot shot" from under
ing Lead and Hold It
An Orange clad quintet represent- shot from the side of the court, a nasium, February 28th by a 52-23
Coast to be
As announced in the last issue of
te rson
completely at bay, allowing them to gather a basket only here and there. The score at half time stood at 18-6 with the Orange and Black on the hea I')' end.
held the
more of a
than the first half, and the V. E. S. team through the efforts of Form- walt and Harrison managed to get
·w oodberry
scorers of the State.
and Formwalt, V. E. S. pivot man,
were tied for the nmner-up position with twelve counters each. The work of Williams at guard must be brought out, as his guarding was as good as any ever seen on the :floor of the Barksdale Gymnasium. The ma- jority of the shots of the Cadet pen-
tagon were made from outside the circle, as they were not able to pene- trate the airtight defense of the
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points whi le the
Weaver, lengthy Woodberry Forest
eigh t
were busy garnering .eventeen.
center, tied with Harmon of the same team for high scoring honor~. Both of these lads finished the c:on- test with ten markers in the scoring
column. Harrison, Virginia Epis-
guanl, carried off high
copal fl oor
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Orangemen
the Bishop court ~eason.
started slowly and 11ever reached an exciting pitch. It wa marred throughout by i11accurate passing and poor shooting on the part of both teams.
R.-M. A. Scores First
The locals held the upper hand all the wHy through and were never seriously threatened. Captain An- clersoJJ of the R.-:JL A. five started things off with a snowbird, and Har-
ri~on followed this with a neat shot to put the V. E. S. aggregation into adion. Led by the uncanny Captain Harri;; and Fonmnllt, the Bishops .'ucceeded in ringing up point after point until at the end of the initial
canto, they held a 1:3-2 lead.
At the beginning of the second period Conrad went in for Wilson at left forward, and the Bishops con-
tinued piling more points on to their already worthy total. The Ran-
THE METEOR, rehearsals for the new ford team 12-10, but Harris kept on production of the Dramatic Society,
The game
dolph-Macon players made two field on the Cadet defense.
goals in this quarter to swell their The game started with a bang;
held more or less at bay during the
third quarter, and point followed six points, and the first quarter came
point, and aided by the splendid to a close with the Cadets leading the work of Formwalt and Freeman, he Bishops 16-8. The Bishops out-
completely ran wild, scoring at will from every possible position on the floor. This quarter served to put V. E. S. into an overwhelming 40-13
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LOCAL PLAYERS WILL GIVE "CAPPY RICKS"
Three-Act Comedy on Shipping on
ringing up points so that his team "Cappy Ricks" by Edward E. Rose,
have commenced, and are being held The flashy V. E. S. Captain, Char- three times a week for the present. 1ie Harris, led the scorers with a In view of the new arrangements for total of seventeen points, which Field Day for this year, the play brings his total for the season up to will not be given until after the 215. He has been a consistent high close of the baseball season, probably
scorer in every game of the season on Saturday, May 23rd.
finished the game well ahead.
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Given
on the
for The Satu1·day Evening Post.
The V. E. S. audience will thus be enabled to see the irascible but lova- ble Oappy Ricks in one of his most volcanic experiences, in which, how- ever, he meets his match in the per- son of one of his own captains,
young Matt Peasley from ''Down- Maine."
shippin g
Coast as written by Peter B. Kyne
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