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Yo1.. XV, No. 11
E. H. S. DOWN BISHOP 3-1 AS R~LLY
IN 9th FALLS SHORT
Ashton Holds Episcopal to Eight Hits as Ragged Support Allows Three Runs
Holding the Y irginia Episcopal
Ashton was on the mound for Vir- ginia EI iscopal, and held the High School batter to eight hits, but
ragged support in the pinches sent
three E. H. S. players across the plate to decide the is ue. The Bishops missed several fine chances to score.
First Inning
In the initial canto, Brown led off and grounded out, Tilton to Zim- mer. Harris took his base on four
wide ones. Baskervill fanned. Clem- ens was hit by Tilton, Harris going to econd. With Bu t at bat and two out, Harri tried to pilfer third, but was nabbed by Carter's direct peg.
The game passed passively enough until the fourth inning. Carter wa the first man up for Episcopal High, and clouted a long one to deep left field for two bases. Sherrill flied out to Clemens in left, and Hooff singled to center field, and Carter scored the
first run of the game to put the Alex- andrians ahead. Watts then flied out to Conrad, who pegged it to Rust to nab Sherrill off the bag for a louble play.
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BISHOP NETMEN HAVE
THREE HARD MATCHES
Tennis Again Becomes Minor Sport Under Coach John M. Ladd
In the last issue of THJ> METEOR it was announced that tennis under the supervision of Mr. J. M. Ladd has replaced the form of compulsory calisthenics for those students who are not out for track or baseball. Mr. Ladd has discovered that from the large number of students under his supervision there are quite a few who show promise of good form and play.
Due to the intense interest in this sport, a schedule of three meets has been made. The first meet will be with the Woodberry Forest courtmen at Orange, Va., May 4. Then with a few days' practice and time to im- prove over the work of the first meet, the V. E. S. team will journey to Danville, Va., and meet the netmen from the Danville Military Institute, :\Iay 18. rf11eir last meet will be against the D. M. I. Cadets in their return match May 25.
Mr. Ladd has been working hard to build a team out of his vast num- ber of candidates, and has found
Smith, T. ::\fartin, Freeman, l\Ic
DR. WILKINSON PREACHES
TO THE LOCAL STUDENTS
Old Friend of V. E. S. Rector Gives Talk of Life's Greatest Battle
".Horning chapel services on Sun- day, April 19, were held at half past nine in order to allow Dr. Wilkinson of Montgomery, Ala., to conduct
services in the absence of the rector. Dr. Wilkinson has been holding a mi ion at Grace Epi copal Church in Lynchburg, and very kindly con-
ented to hold services early at the chapel in order to hold the regular eleven o'clock service in town. Dr. Wilkinson is a friend of Dr. Ban- dolph, and is interested in the school, inconveniencing himself to some ex-
tent in order to deliver this very fine message of the morning.
FORMER TEACHER SPEAKS TO STUDENTS IN CHAPEL
Mr. Ellis Tucker, Now Teaching in China, Gives Interesting Talk
In place of the regular sermon on
~untlay m o r n i n g ,
in chapel by Ellis Tucker, former teacher at Yirginia Episcopal School and now teacher of mathematics at
~t. .John's University, Shanghai, China. While here l\Ir. Tucker taught mathematics and coached the smaller boys' teams, doing much to train boys for sen-ice on the Yarsity teams of later years.
The subject of Mr. Tucker's talk was China and the work that St. John'sUniversityisdoingthere. He compared Chinese students with
American stLldents, showing that while they differed in many respects, in others they were very much like those in our own country. One in- teresting comparison he gave was
SAINT DER ST~RS TAKE 61-56 VICTORY
IN EXCITING AFFAIR Final Count Is 61-56 in Favor of
four scattered bingle ,
In a \'ery close and interesting track meet, the Saint Chri topher's School cindermen defeated the Vir- ginia Episcopal School trackmen 61-56, on J ohnson Athletic Field, Friday afternoon, April 24. The weather was rather cool for a track meet and resulted in slow times and short distances. rhe Saint out- classed the Episcopalians in the field events, but the Bishop were superior in the running events. Cabell and Meacham were the outstanding par- ticipants of the meet for Saint Chris- topher' , the former being high point man, while Young was the high scorer for the Garnets.
Exciting Race
batters to
while his mates were garnering eight, Tilton pitched a smooth- worh.ing Episcopal High School nine to a 3-1 victory in the state's prep diamond classic on John on Field, April 25. The Episcopal infield pl-ayed air- tight ball , only one mi scue being put down against them, while the Gar- nets chalked up four errors.
Grew, Withers, and Coxetter to b the most promising.
"LePanto" by G. K. Chesterton. scorers were Harris, who took a third 1'his yotmgster is but twelve years of over the tall timbers, Lewis, who age, and acquitted himself like a vet- placed fourth in the javelin with a eran, and should be a state champion heave of 142 feet, and Young, who some clay. The judges gave the cle- took a third place in the pole vault.
Dr. Wilkinson exceeded even the
highest expectations of his ability as
a speaker. With finished form and
excellent diction his talk was appro-
priate in subject, scholarly in ref- SENIOR CLASS EETS that Chinese students use large
erences and illustrations, and fla- \'Ored with a certain broad viewpoint, intelligent understanding, and ad-
amounts of perfume and were not AND MAKES OFFICERS particularly fond of sleeping alone
half mile run was perhaps events. Lipscomb of St. Christopher's
address the club in the near future. He is a counselor and a member of
Secondly, the rules governing the sec- the Scientia.
ond annual Scientific Essay contest William Holmes, of Bethlehem, were drawn up. 'rhis contest was Pa., wa easily elected secretary-
originated by the Science Club last treasurer on the first ballot. He spring in order to stimulate scientific should be quite capable to fill the
interest in the school. All V. E. S. position vacated by Belmore. He is boys except members of the Science a member of the Honor Committee
Club are eligible to enter thi contest, and a member of the Scientia.
public speaking was very close as waR
the debate. H owever, the judges ren- berry Forest School, Fishburne nfili-
dered unanimous decisions through- tary chool, and Staunton Military out. Academy. Woodberry and Staunton The meet opened with the prepared proved to be far superior to Fish-
reading with Malcolm Lasher of burne and V . E. S.
V. E. S. leading off. He read a se- Woodberry won the meet with 61 lection from Donn Byrne's "Messer )Oints, followed by Staunton with 53, Marco Polo." This was well ren- and Fishburne with 14, while V. E. dered, and the dramatic points were S. gathered only 10 points. exceedingly well brought out. Lip- The outstanding performance of scomb of St. Christopher's came next, the day was turned in by Gwinn, reading a passage from "l\Iarkheim" :Woodberry sprinter, who ran the cen-
and the winner will be awarded a gold coin at finals.
The office of the class prophet and historian is capably fi lled by Caskie E. Norvell, Jr., of Greensboro, N. C.
'rHoMAs S:~nTH
r ice-President Senior Class
in a room at night. When these stu- mirable philosophy of life. The ser- Smith, T., Holmes, Belmore, and dents finish at the University they
T he
the most exciting of all the track
mon was enjoyable as well as instruc- tive, and had a peculiar significance for students.
Dr. Wilkinson opened his sermon
by expressing his gratitude for the held before the Christmas holidays, seems to be hard to impress on the opportunity to speak to the school and Richardson Hillier, of I-Tar·lan, Ken- Eastern seekers-after-knowledge is
made se11eral complimentary state- tucky, wa elected presiclent, and ments based on his friendship with Edward Belmore, of Schuyler, Ya.,
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secretary-treasurer. It was decided to held the election of the remaining officers later in the year.
SCIENTIA TO PRESENT
ESSAYIST WITH PRIZE After a short period of nominations,
Norvell Are Given Leading Positions
took the lead and held it, but Bar- row, a small stature youth with a long stride, kept about two feet in back of him until they reached the straightaway. A thrilling race was then won by Lipscomb by the hort margin of a foot in the good time of 2 :09 %. The quarter was a race between Hillier of V. E. '. and Street of St. C. with the former fol- lowing Street until the last turn
before the straightaway at which Hillier took the race in hand and won. The mile run was the only event in which either school took a clean sweep. The Y. E. S. cinder- men took all three places, with Hen- kel winning, and Snook and \V. Bas-
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WON BY W. F. S. TEAM
A second meeting for the purpose of electing officers was held April 25.
V. E. S. Win
taken up, Malcolm Lasher gave a In the ballot cast for the Valedic- ginia Episcopal School by a count of short but interesting talk describing torian, Edward Belmore having been 2-1 at Bichmoncl on the evening of
Barring Generalities Smith is one of the outstanding fig- The meeting of the Science Club ures of the school, holding a num-
Capturing both the Public Speak- held Sunday, April 26, was for the ing the head counselorship and the ing contest and the debate, the Lit- greater part of a business nature. presidency of the G. A. A. erary team of St. Christopher's However, before the business was Belmore Valedictorian School defeated the team from Vir-
ber of very important offices includ-
the very unusual operation used to elected secretary-treas rer earlier in April 18. Virginia Episcopal through Gwinn Takes Century in Fast Time cure oxycephaly or "tower skull." of 0 :9.8
In the way of business several im- the year, immediately resigned from the able work of its two state cham-
portant matters were taken up. that position, and the balloting con- pion readers took the reading contest 1'he Virginia Episcopal School
Firstly, it was decided to try to have tinued. Though this is only Bel- with ease, excelling the St. Christo- track team journeyed to Staunton Mr.Kempnerofthezoologicaldepart- more's econd year at V. E. S., he is pher'scontestantsbothintheprepared MilitarySchoolonApril18tocompete
ment of the Unil'ersity of Virginia quite prominent in school affairs. reading an l in the ight reading. The in a quadrangular meet with Wood-
The rules of the contest are :
The es ay may be written on any Caskie has made quite a name for
scientific subject, barring generali- himself as the school wit, and his by Robert Louis Stevenson. Caskie tury dash in the exceptionally good
ties.
The essay must consist of at least
two thousand words.
The essay must be written in ink
or on a typewriter.
· Quotations used in the essay must
be indicated.
The essay must be turned in to the
senior master before Monday, May 25. Judges will be members of the fac-
ulty.
prophecy, if 11ot censored too strictly, Norvell, representing V. E. S., then time of 0:9.8. Young, Virginia
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1931 TRACK SCHEDULE A.pril 10: H.l\I.A.57';V.E.S.60.
April 18: \V. F. S. 61; S. l\L .\. 33; F. l\I. H. 1-±; Y. E. S. 10. April 2-±: S. l'. 8. (51; \'. E. S. 5(5.
Uay 8: D. "JI. I., here.
read a thrilling .election from the Episcopal dash man took third in
are anxious to get out in the world and make a lot of money, in this re- spect resembling a great many Amer-
In a meeting o£ the ~enior class ican college boys. One thing that
that they should try to use this newly-acquired knowledge for the
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ST. CHRISTOPHERWINS
IN LITERARY CONTEST
Thomas Smith, of Bio de Janeiro,
Students to Choose Own Subjects Brazil, was elected vice-president. Lasher and Norvell Score Only
this event. V. E. S. again came into venge of Hamish." The last to read prominence when Henkel took sec-
poems of Sidney Lanier , " The Re-
was Bagby of S. C. S., and he read ond in the mile run. Other V. E. S.
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