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COMICALPERFORMANCES GIVENBYNEW"V"MENLynchburg game the supposedly
GARNETRACQUETEERS DEFEATED BY D. M. I.
Oakwood Country Club Is Scene of Action; McGrew and
Martin Win
Bowing before the attack of the strong Danville Military Institute netmen, the Bishops closed their 1931 season on the courts of the Oakwood Country Club, Lynchburg, May 18. The meet was held at the local club because the V. E. S. courts were not in top shape after the heavy
rains of the preceding week. The Episcopalians played far below from and fell 5-2 before D. M. 1., who had defeated the strong Oak Ridge Military Institute tennis team the week before.
Captain Tom Smith of Virginia Episcopal met Evans in the feature match of the afternoon, Starting slowly, the Bishop leader lost the first set decisively at 6-1, and played stellar tennis in the next, finally
falling at 7-5.
Martin playing at the Number 3
position took the first V. E. S. vic- tory when he won a hotly contested match from Moore, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. Coxetter at Number 2 suffered a se- vere setback, and Freeman went (Continued on page 6.)
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CADETS TAKE 5-4 WIN OVER BISHOPS
IN 7 INNING CONTEST
Fourth Inning Rally Net3 Bishops Four Runs to Tie D. M. I. Until the 5th
DIAMOND IS SEA OF MUD
Game Is Called at End of 7th by Agreement ; Daughtery Has Perfect Day at Bat
Playing their last game of the sea- son in a steady rain the Bishop base- ball team lost to Danville Military•
Institute 5-±. The game which waB
played on Johnson Athletic Field
May 20th, was called by aq;reement in the seventh inning. \Vater soaked balls caused frequent erro''S to bo made by both teams. The cadet8 took a four-run lead in the first which they held throughout the re- mainder of the game. Harri s fanned ~ix D . M . I . m e n w h i l e b e t w e e n Wolfe and Lindsay, only five Garnet- men were struck out.
The cadets drew the first blood in
the first when Jones crossed the
home plate on Hardaway's sacrifice
hit. Hardaway was safe at first on Hillie·r (liJditor-in-Chief), Norvell (Bus. Mgr.) , McCabe, &mither, N.., L ewis, 0., Pill, Barrow, H enkel, Forsyth. a fielder's choice. Wentz reached
first on an error by Conrad. Roach
singled over second, bringing in two
runs. He then scored on W. Wentz's
bingle. This ended the scoring un-
til the fourth frame.
ASHTON PITCHES 7-6 WINOVER ALUMNI IN
GRUELLING STRUGGLE
Luck Whiffs Eighteen Batters but Loses After Locals Rally in Closing Stages
GAME LASTS TWELVE INNINGS
Superior Play in Pinches Is Main Factor in Exciting Bishop Triumph
Staging a late rally the Virginia Episcopal School nine took a 7-6 ver- dict over·the Alumni in a gruelling twelve inning struggle on Johnson Field, May 16. Ashton went the
route for the Garnets while Luck held the box during the entire game for the visitors. The fielding on both sides was erratic, a total of thir- teen miscues occurring during the game.
The Bishops were outhit by ten to six but three passed balls by Penn allowed the locals to tie the score, and score a decision in the twelfth.
Ashton led his team in slugging tak- ing two bingles out of four trips to the platter, giving him a batting average of .500 for the game. He made the only extra base blow of the afternoon when he took one of hurler Luck's offerings and sent it into right field for a two bagger.
Hobbs Bats Hard
Hobbs led the Alumni contingent
with two hits out of four tries. He was followed by Luck with two out of six. Luck's curves were working in first class order, and he mowed down eighteen Garnet batsmen by the strike out route. Ashton also pitched good ball, fanning ten and allowing ten scattered hits. Luck gave six passes while the V. E. S. hurler al- lowed but two men to reach the in- itial sack by this means.
The Alumni presented a better
array of talent than usual, and with
the erstwhile Garnet star, "Peck"
Luck on the mound, made a credit-
able showing and bowed to stamina
after a hard fought struggle. It
might be of interest to note that this
is the first V. E. S. Alumni baseball
game that has gone for extra in- .
In Difficulties
Harris pulled out of a deep hole in
the second. With two men on bases
and two out, Jones grounded to Har-
rison who threw him out at the ini-
Major athletics were brought to highly touted High School team, Team journeyed to Staunton, where an end when the baseball team closed only to lose in the last sixty seconds they trailed in a quadrangular meet.
brought in Clemens and Baskervill, the state, among whom were the and later he crossed on Cowan's champions in both prep and high
error. At this crucial moment of the school classes. Two los~c1 whi ch
Baseball this year was indeed med- iocre, the Garnet winning but t o games out of ten. The nine took Randolph-Macon's measure 9-7 in a game played at Bedford, in which
Ashton was on the mound for the Bishops, and Rust and Harris hit for circuit. The other victory was over the Alumni in a gruelling twelve-inning struggle. Ashton was (Continued on page 5)
WALTER CLEMENT TAKES P'REP GOLF TOURNAMENT
fracas Wolfe relieved Lindsay and after much difficulty retired the Bat- (Continued on page 4)
were especially outstanding were a 13-7 loss to D. M. I., runnC'r-up for state championship, and a 19-13 de- feat by the high school state cham- pions, Lynchburg High School, who expected an easy victory. In the
nmgs.
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Nine Appear at Breakfast Queerly Attired to Perform Antics
Initiations for membership in the "V" Club were held Monday, May 25. This is the second time this year that boys have been taken into the
club.
The candidates went through the
secret part of their initiation the Sunday night before, and were in good form for the remaining part. There were nine boys to be taken in, and it was very hard to find some- thing for all of them to do. But due to the hard work of the "Goat" committee, there was something dif-
ferent for all to do.
The order in which the program
went off at breakfast Monday morn- ing was as follows :
"Duckfoot" Holberton came trip- ping into the dining room with a tremendous pair of webbed feet made from coat hangers. Next came "Old Lady" Rust and her adopted son
"Billy" Baskervill. The third to enter was little "Goo-goo" young. H e
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ament for members of the "V" Club was won by William Formwalt of Sykesville, Mel. The tourney was a handicap affair. The tournament was divided into two sections. In the upper bracket were the players who were experienced perfonners with the paddle and celluloid ball, and in the lower the novices were placed. The winner of the top fiight was to play the winner of the novice divi- sion, and spot him 15 love on each game.
Martin in Finals
Ed Martin of Tarboro, N. C., came through easily among the ex- perienced players, meeting little trouble on his way to the final round.
On the night of June 2 Mr. H. P. Costolo, presented Formwalt with the trophy.
Due to lillforseen complications Virginia Episcopal' entire golf team did not compete in the state meet, but the Number 1 man, H enry
was dressed as Mrs.
have clothed him seventeen years ago. The fourth was little "Mary"
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H owever, when he
chop troke artist,
had to spot him on every game, a different story was told, and the vet- eran was forced to bow.
would
the current season with the D. M. I. on a touchdown scored on a long pass. Shenandoah Valley Academy
game. Out of thirty-six scheduled was defeated at Lexington by the contests, the Bishops won seventeen score of 20-0.
and lost nineteen. Although the teams failed to break even by one
The outstanding win of the season in the first of the fifth, which proved because of the fine fighting spirit was over St. Christopher's School of
tial sack.
Daughtery scored for the cadets game, V. E. S. backers are satisfied
St. Christopher's Defeated
and determination to win against Ri chm ond, previously undefeated teams representing school s with and unscored on, in a one-touchdown
to be the winning run. In the last of
the same inning the Bishops came
into their own, getting all their runs. much larger student bodies. affair, '1-0. 'Wins over Lane High
The football team had a fairly suc- School of Charlottesville, and R.-M. cessful season, winning four and los- A. completed the victories. On the
With one man out Lindsay walked
Rust. Clemens followed him with a
double to right field. Baskervill
went to first out of Lindsay's charity. were scheduled against eight of the from Woodberry Forest, Episcopal A timely two-base hit by Harrison best prep and high school team in High, and Blackstone.
ing five games. Eight of these games other hand defeats were received
were outstanding in the backfield, the latter receiving honorable men- tion for all-state. Wilson, tackle and Freeman, diminutive center were the outstanding linemen as both played good football all season.
V. E. S. had an exceptionally good
basketball season, winning ten and
losing three games. Episcopal High outclassed Garnet team turned the was defeated by a score of 39-21.
tables and qompletely outclassed the Probably the most outstanding vic- tory of the season was a 40-39 win
FORMWALT TAKES "V" over the strong Greenbrier Military PING PONG TOURNEY School quint.
- The season was undoubtedly out- The first annual ping-pong tourn- standing, being almost comparable
encountered the F ormwalt, and
the season, the becoming high scorer of the state. Billy Harrison played a splendid game at the fioor guard position, and will be missed next season .
Track Improves
The Track season was an improve-
ment over last year, the Bishops breahng even, winning two and los- ing a like number. The Garnets opened with a dual meet with the strong R.-M. A. team on Johnson Field. The meet was in doubt all the way through, but the Bishops finally nosed out the cadets, 60-57.
The following
round and 43 on the second for a total of 88 for the morning's eigh- teen holes. After 1unch he steadied and shot a pair of 42's for an 84, thus giving him a thirty-six hole total of 172.
Walter Clement of Jefferson High School of Roanoke won the tourna- ment, and Bobby Monstead of Wood-
berry Forest and Chandler Harper of Woodrow Wilson High School tied for second. The team match was won by the team representing Woodberry Forest School.
Coleman, playing over a strange course, made an extremely creditable
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Sports Resume ofSession 1930~3I Shows More De/eats Than Wins on Gridiron ana Diamond But Basketball is Outstanding
The highly spoken of St. Christo- pher's team took a 61-56 win from the Gannets on a wind-swept track. The final meet, which was with Dan- ville Military Institute, was a thril- ler from the first event until the Bis- hops took a one-point victory when Barrow took the half in 2:10 and Long tied Cralle of Danville for second place, the meet ending 59-
58.
Young, who ran the century and
the furlong and pole vaulted was the most versatile performer on the team, finishing the season with
Harris, a co-captain, and LaLance forty-seven points.
to the famous pentagon of 1929 cap-
tained by J ohnnie Maybank, and led
by the ubiquitous "Sot" Barber.
While working well because of good
team work, there were several indi-
vidual stars who were largely respon-
sible for the success. Captain
Charlie Harris at a forward position
distinguished himself by running up ing Coleman turned in 45 on the first the enviable total of 217 points for
Saturday
The Red
Coleman played the thirty-six holes over the sporty Woodberry Forest School terrain, and emerged in eighth place in a field of fifty of the state's finest golfers. In the morn-