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Mr. Beasley wa. a gradu~ selor and captain of the 1924 track
qum t.
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fteorge For ·ytl1.
In the first game, in which the
scoring was .carce, the youngsters of the Episcopal school took Captain
QUINTET PUTS BISHOPS OUT OF
SOUTHERN
Led by Weis, Green and White Gets 34-21 Verdict Over Bishop Quint
A 8mooth working quintet of Ben- edictine School played a clas y game of ball and defeated the Virginia
Episcopal School teaiu in their trv '
for Southern Conference honor , Fri- day, March 6th, by the decisive core
of 34-21.
Weis, Benedictine forward, was
the outstanding player of the game, gathering a total of fourteen points to be high scorer. He was clo ely followed by his running mate Emory. who scored five field goals. Harris led the Bishop scoring with eight
points, while Wilson got ix. Game Starts Slow
NEW COUNSELORS
THE METEOR wishes to an- nounce the appointment of Willis Baskerville and Richa1·d Wright to the Student Oouncil. This is
Baskerville's fifth year at V. E. S. and Wright's second. Both ap- pointments are well deserved, and THE METEOR joins with the stu- dent body in wishing them suc-
cessful counsel01·ships.
JUNIOR BISHOPS ROUT LYNCHBURG HIGH TEAM
Decisive 41-10 Score Puts Quint on High Road to City Title
'l'he Virginia Episcopal School
junior quintet oared along in its
MANAGER 1932
At a rneeting of the G. A. A. held on Sunday, March 8th, Ran- dolph Taylo1' was voted to be the 1932 manager of basketball. Tay- lor was selected from three can- didates because his diligent aid to .t~tt'.s year's manager proved his
ab1hty to perform the duties of the office that he has received.
STRONG BISHOP QUINT WINS OVER L. C. FROSH
BYIMPRESSIVE SCORE V . E. S. Cagers Take 51-38 Decision
in Fastest Contest of Y ear
'l'he Virginia Episcopal School basketball team defeated the Lynch- burg College Frosh in what was con- ~idered the fastest game to be played
m the Barksdale gymnasium this 51-38, Wed-
•
five points in the first quarter to
blank the Garnets, but goals by Har- Strader-coached aggregation and put ris and Wilson put the Garnet~ on them right up among the leaders in
flarrison G 0 0 0 \Villiams G 0 0 0
the College team to sixteen points in the third period, but in the final
Totals.. Referee:
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first one wlcich happened along,-- and both teams gathered a total of
Virginia.
ate of the class of 1925 at V. E. S. While at V. E. S. he was Head Coun-
With the coming of warm weather, At the weekly meeting of the Sci- Charlie Newell's boys into camp, 8- Coach Costolo has had an increasing
ence Club held Sunday, March 8th, 4. The score at half time was 2-1 in number of boys of Track aspirations a talk was given by George Forsyth faI'Or of V. E. S. A number of V. under his guidance. The early prac- on the subject of Rockets. E. S. stars were out of this affair on tiee consisted of short periods of jog-
Th e following are the
were voted their "V": Captain
team, specializing in the Clashes. After leaving V._ E. S., Mr. Beasley attended the UmYersity of Virginia,
ones who Charles Harris of Welch, West Vir-
graduating in 1929.
ber of the Delta Kappa Ep ilon fra-
ternity.
p:1ng around the cement tennis courts On the following Saturday niaht behind the gymnasium. These peri-
the second win in three starts for the
Game Is Fast
The game was a very fast contest throughout, both teams displaying a neat brand of basketball. The Bish- ops took the lead from the beginning and were never overtaken. Freeman started off with a snowbird and Ram-
sey added two points to the college score by the same method. With both teams matching goal for goal in the first period a close and exciting game was predicted, and the first quarter ended with the V. E. S.
quint leading by a two-point margin, 14-12._ Conrad, Bishop forward, c:ame mto the game at this point and helped put the Garnets into a com- fortable lead by contributing ten pmnts to the score in this canto. The V. E. fl. quint developed into a
smooth working team, and when the whistle blew for the half the score
was 32-20.
Harris, Lilly and Conrad played an
even terms with the Benedictine five the pennant chase.
in the second quarter. The half The Lynchburgers played along Langhorne Memorial Chapel was ended with the score 11-7 in the on fairly even terms with the young again the scene of the confirmation Green and Whites' favor. In the Bishops during the first half, which service, held at this time each year, third period, Weis increased the lead ended with the V. E. S. team on the and the Hight Reverend Robert Car-
of the Benedictine quint to ten long end of a 1±-6 score. However ter Jett, founder and former rector
points, and in the final period both in the second half with Withers, Hol- of V. E. S., and present Bishop of
teams fought on fairly even terms berton, and Smither, R. leading the the diocese of Southwestern Vir-
with the Green and White team way, the Bishops piled up twenty- ginia, conducted the service this year three major arches are forty-five, holding a slight edge. The Bishops seven pomts to sew up the contest, on the night of Sunday, February mnety, and one hundred and ten feet fought hard to overcome the lead of 41-10. 22nd. The group that was pre- in length, respectively, giving a total their opponents, but their try was in Smither, R. led the scorers with sented to the Bishop consisted of six span of two hundred and forty-five
the hollow, the Presbyterian Orphan- ment of character.
~ted .martly for the 14-13 beating rlous universe without any help, he
Holbleid G 0 0 0
lllmore ..G 2 0 4 au early season game, by completely l1elp from the indiYidual.
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bridge, which i est in the State.
li'lac·
comio G 0 0 0
no ceremony in opening the bndge for use. The car which of-
taking command of the situation and - - - :o-;mith ....G. 1 1 3 drubbing the Orphanage quint 41-
Gooch (William and Mary). ---0---
The little Bishops started off ad- mirably and held a 27-10 advantage at the intermission. V. E. S. out- scored their opponcnts 14-10 in the
but unoffic1ally, the editor of this SERIESOFFOURGAMES paper. with ~e,·eral of his staff in- itiated the structure some two ,;eeks In a four-game series with the previous to the opening elate, Feb-
(Continued on page 4)
SEVEN VOTED VARSITY MONOGRAMS BY G. A. A.
Eleven of Fourteen Contests Won in Successful Season
The General Athletic Association in their meeting on Sunday, March 8th YOtcd monograms to seven mem-
berc oE the Yery successful basketball
team for their good work. The
quintet won eleven of their chedulecl fourteen contests.
"VISIONS" SUBJECT OF SERMON BY ALUMNUS
Richard Beasley, Former V. E. S. Head Counselor, Speaks in
· Chapel
The chapel service held Sunday
morning, March 8th, was conducte;l ?Y 1!r. Richard Beasley, a tudent
m h1s second year at the Virginia Theological Seminary at Alexandria
last half to even the standing between midget team of the Presbyterian Or- ruary 26th.
these t11·o riYals of long cluratim1. phanage, the Virginia Episcopal 'l'he \ritching on of the lio-hts on
Holberton and \Vithers again School midgets have emerged un- the night of February 28th ~larked cra:hed into the foreground by tying scathed . All of the contests have the fi nal episode in the opening cere- for high scoring honors with eievcn been close, but the Baby Bishops, monies. The approaches having been com1ters apiece. Rocklin of the coached by Conroy Wilson, varsitv completed, the bridge proper is now los2rs also scorecl ele1·et1 points anrl forward, have come out in the leaci. beginning what is hoped to be a long
He was a mem-
cription of the rocket, its construc-
tion and the principle by which its l'oach Wilson's team again tri- orls were gradually lengthened and
wa~ the star of the Pre~bvterian rlue to the excellent work of Captain ."
(Continued on page 4)
TRACK TRAINING BEGUN
George began his talk witl1 a de8- accouut of illness.
gini a; Conroy Wilson of Norfolk, Virginia; Rodger Williams of Lynch- burg, Virginia; John Conrad of Hanisonburg, Virginia; William Formwalt of Sykesville, Maryland;
·william Harrison of Enfield North . '
Carolina; Claude Freeman of Ral-
eigh, North Carolina; and Malcolm
THE METEOR
3
months later the first concrete was
the Green and White team scored decisive score of 41-10. This was SMALL CLASS FEB. 22 poured, and to-day it is complete. scormg eight points.
The game started off very slowly; in the Garland Rhodes Gym by the
much credit for their playing, both
THE METEOR reporter, in an inter- view with the architect, received some very astounding facts, which were completely beyond his unmath- ematical comprehension, but which nevertheless sounded convincing.
vain, as the Benedictine quint proved thirteen markerR in his scoring col- boys. The boys confirmed were Wil- feet plus concrete approaches and to be a smooth-working team. umn, whjch \\'itS just a point better liam Formwalt of Sykesville, M:d., minor spans, making the total floor
As a result of this victory the Ben- than the total of that Yersatile floor Douglas Lund of Lynchburg, Va., length three hundred and ten feet. edictine quiut played Greenbrier guard, Withers, who had twelve. James Coxetter, Jr., of Fort Bragg, The highest point of the bridge is
Military School and defeated them, Holberton played a good game at the N. C., Lemuel Boykiu of Boykin, eighty-seven feet above the floor of
to be runners up for the Southern piYot position and at the finish of S. C'., and Henry \Ving of Atlanta, the valley and one hundred and two Conference Preparatory School title, the contest had totaled ten points. Ga. feet above rock bottom. This makes being eliminated b.'" S. M. A. who The Junior team stepped out of In addition, a. is customary the bridge the second largest and
BISHOP J ETT
The long heralded, and longer ex- playel exceptionally well on the de-
pected, V. E. S. bndge has at last fense for the Bishop quint. Hurt becom~ a reality. Exactly one year wa the outstanding player for the
flight to the championship of the
Lynchburg city league when they Pounder a.nd First Rector of V. E. 8. ago this ISue, It was announced that College team, scoring ten points and
completely sno,1·ecl under thr Lynch-
burg High School junior courtmen BISHOP CONFIRMS A
construction work on the new bridge playing a smooth all-round game. would begin immediately. Six Captain Ramsey and Clore deserve
Delivers Interesting Sermon on Development of Character
the C'ity League for a fray with B ishop J ett deli Ycred a very interest~ finest in the city, being surpassed
won the Southern Confe rcm:e titlr. Line-up
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Freeman F 0 0 0 l~mory.... F fi 0 10
Formwalt C 1 1 3 ~I rGrath C 0 3 3 given them by the Presbyterians in cannot make one'~ character without the removing of the old bridge, there hops had increased their lead over
their traditional riYals from acrosR iHg evening sermo11 on the develop-
only by the famous Rivermont
V. E. S.
Harris (c)F
Wilson ....F 2 2 6 1\'eis ......F 7 0 14 age. The V. E. S. Juniors retalli- that although God made a tremen- Conrad ..F 2 0 4 Uallagher F 0 0 0
g o o d
g a m e ,
s h o o t i n g
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R,;NEDJCTINE
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the largest and high- Due to the conditions involved by
propelling agency goes higher as the u_mphed over the Presbyterians, this as time went on there wa fundamen-
For the text of his very intere ting :ocket approaches high speed , reach- bme by a J4-] 1 score. Thi game tal practice for those boys who are
men dream dreams while youno· men
Pointing out through notew·orthy ex- propel it. among the constellation of miclget material from which M:r. Costolo
amples, Mr. Beasley proved his point The use of the rocket is said by players. must form his 1931 track outfit.
that most great men have had am- experimentalists to be limited to four In the third game of the series, the There are some promising distance
bitious dreams of success before at- fields, mainly terrestrial, transporta- V. E. S. team took the most decisive men working out each clay, while the
taining it. Most boy do not realize tion at high altitude , torpedoes, for victory of the set when they took an clashes aml field events have not been the most outstanding player for the
their dreams because they refuse to observation, the establishment of sta- 18-10 victory from the Presbyterians, slighted in respect to material. Bishop quintet. He ranks among talk 0\7 er their plans with older and tions in space, and inter-planetary despite the good work of Patterson. The track itself, while not in the the leading scorers of the State. Rod- more experienced persons, and re- transportation. Although the rocket In the ·final game of the series, best of condition·now, is being put ger Williams, stationary guard was
ceJve encouragement and advice. is still in its infancy, it is expected wh1ch resemble the famous baseball into sha1 e and will be ready for the backbone of the Garnet defense, Consequently they are ca t aside as that great strides will be made within classic, the world Series, the Babv• steady use bY the time school open and playing his first year of varsity
impos ible. the next few years. (Continued on page 4) after the spring holidays. (Continued on page 4).
sermon, he selected the ver e "Old mg one hundred per cent efficiency, saw the retum to the line-up of Cap-
out for the hurdles.
have visions" from the book of Job. equal to the expelled gases which F orsyth was easily outstanding man back, there is a wealth of good
whe11 the speed of the rocket becomes tain Forsyth, Cabell, and Roach.
Although there is only one letter- Lasher, manager, of Danbury, Con-
H e maintained
NEW BRIDGE COMPLETE
AND OPEN TO TRAFFIC season by the score of
Interview with Architect Reveals Many Astounding Realities
nesday, February 18th.
Captain Harris and Conrad led the
Bishop attack with sixteen points
each while Harri and Harrison
Aside from the problem involvino· "stress and strain," he discovered that the bridge was built in two movable parts to allow for weather expansion. In a.ddition, that the
w~s
ficially opened the bridge, was the quarter the game began to slow up,
~xceptwnally
oaskets from all angles of the floor in this last half of the contest. The Bis-
nerticut. All of the above have made their monograms before; consequent- ly there will not be any one to be in- itiated into the "V" club.
Charles Harris, star forward, was