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W. F. S. HOLDS V. E.S. TO A~t:ORELESS TIE
AT ORANGE VIRGINIA LaLance Outstanding Player
the Game; While Wollen Shines for Forest Men
HAVE FIRST MEETING Interested Collectors Visit the Junior
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ROLL FOR 1ST MONTH Sinclair Has Highest Grade, While
Eutsler I;ollows Closely
The first month of the school
HOME-COMING
VIRGINIA
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STAMP CLUB MEMBERS
EDITION
VIRGINIA
FORMWALT PLAYS WELL over by Mr. Mattfield, the founder who is himself an interested and
Bishops Net Five First Downs ·as Tiger Gridsters Get Two; Field in Good Shape
successft~l s t a m p c o l l e c t o r . D u r i n g the neetmg a general informal dis- cussion was held about the latest stamps that the enthusiasts would
VIrgmia, the V. E. S. _fo~tba_ll
team was held to a sc01 elcs~ tte j at work trying to swap some of their by the powerful W oodberry .t' or-· less precious possessions for a stamp est School ~Ieven on October the that would help to round out some
lOth. The Btshops were by far the particula,- collection. A few boys hghter of the two teams, but they make a regular business of swap- outfought and outplayed the For- ping and selling stamps, mostly on est~en the whole game, only al- approval, and they promise many lo,~mg them two first downs good bargains to the old as well as
whtle they netted five for them- new coll~ctors of the "international ~f!h:~" Thro r:...,rnPi- t.P"liTl '\l[Pnt nn st"ll:-crs.
t~1e field with the intention o,f get- Some of the more enthusiastic tmg revenge for last year s de- members journeyed into Lynchburg feat, at the hands of Woodberry, Friday evening for the convention
and after the 15ame they felt that! they had regamed a great part of j the lost ground, for this is the
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BEGUN BrPROr. SHULL
Discusses Present International Situations and Problems
V. E. S. students this year are given· the opportunity of keeping up with the more important matters of the day which are given in the
current event talks every Thurs~y night after study hall. Mr. Shull
lV..t...Llutl::,Vlnt:, ·., c.L. , J.liv~•..L.;r L ewi::,,+-'-7 • ......
of Amherst, Va.; Thomas Bur- :-vise choice because of the intense chard, of Baltimore, Md.; Albert mterest which is always attached to Channing, of Scranton, Pa.; Page this particular contest. The drama Clagett, of Upper Marlboro, Md.; to_ be enacted on Johnson Athletic
first time in the last eight years BISHOPS SCRAP HARD that V. E. S. has not been beaten
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL
TIES FISHBURNE 7-7 formances when V.-E. S. and Epis-
b y W o o d b e r r y .
The day was rather warm, but
TO WIN OVER S. V. A
• lent condition and there was no Use Both Ground and Air Attacks
copal lock horns. Seldom have they been disappointed, and all the old
the Woodberry field was in excel- (Continued on Page 3.)
has very kindly consented to give Last Minute JErial Attack Brings tricks, all the fight, and all the spirit
these talks which will take a good V. E. S. From Behind
deal of his time and undoubtedly l Finisl~ing in the waning minutes
be a great deal of trouble. Most of play 111 a shower of: passes which
of t~e students do not have time placed the ball in position to score, JUNIOR BISHOPS TAKE or wi~l not take tl~e trou?le to keep the Virginia Episcopal Bishops con-
up wtth the pubhc affatrs, and so tmued their stellar playing by tie- I WIN FROM SCOTTSBURG these talks should prove very bene- ing their heavier opponents the
ficial to those who wan_t to know, Fishburne Cadets, from W~ynes­ Take Lead Early to Win by Score
Successfully for 18-0 Win The annual football game between V. E. S. and S. V. A. was played as a preliminary to the Virginia- V. M. I. game, on Thursday, Octo- UNBEATEN BOYS TEAM ber 15. A determined V . E. S. team had to use everything they had to
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TWO WINS SCORED BY
Little Garnets Beat Miller Park and Rivermont Tearns
The undefeated Virginia Episco- pal School Boys team kept up its victorious drive when it defeated the 120-pound team from River-
mont, 20-7, on October 20. The game was played on the V. E. S. jun~or field with perfect weather conditions.
The visitors' only score came dur- ing the first canto when McCraw, star back for Rivermont, ran about
defeat the game Cadets. Captain Robert LaLance was the big gun in
his running mate, Scott Clemens, cussion of the present condition of play, uncorked a passing attack Scottsburg, Va., and defeated the were outstanding in the line for the the British Government and of the which completed four out of six team from that High School, 20-6. •
Bishops, while Henkel in the line, fall of the Labor Party. He brought passes to place the ball on the five- The young Garnetmen took the lead
<;Iub of
L ynchburg
Approx~mately twenty boys turned out for the first regular semi-month- of ly meeting of the Philatelic Club of V. E. S.! last Wednesday night.
IS DATE
The meetmg was held in the Rec- tor's apartments, and was presided
to be exempted from day study hall. The honor of )eading the school for
_Af~e_r journeying to Orange, like to possess, but this soon gave 1
way as several of the boys were hard
the Garnet attack, scoring all the touchdowns, while Charles Me-
Saturday, October 24, 7-7. Dick Mr. Shull opened his talk last Smithers, who was injected into the
EPISCOP AL
OcTOBER 29, 1931 ~~
Proceeds of Game Will Be Do- nated to Charity in Nation- Wide Drive for Relief
Closed With a Dance Featuring DeLuxe Entertainers
Ann?u~c~ment has been made tl-~is m?nth felt to an old boy, Lowry that_ VIrgima Episcopal School will Smclair, who gained the fine aver- dedicate the receipts from its foot- age of 95'Jo. Others averaging 90'Jo ball game wit!-~ Episcopal High to a or more were: Ernest Eutsler, of f~md for rehevmg distress occa- Goldsboro, N. C., 94.4'Jo; Angus SIOned by the current condition of
Randolph, of Lynchburg, Va., unemployment. This decision of the 93. 1'lo ; and Robert Goodwin of school authorities is in keeping with Martinsville, Va., 90.5'Jo. ' the nation-wide movement sug-
The average that had to be ob- gested by Owen D. Young, namely tained to be exempted from night that football teams throughout the· study hall was 85'Jo. Twenty-three c_ountry cooperate toward the estab- attained this average. They are: hsh~1ent of funds derived from gate George Forsyth, of Charlottes- receipts of special contests the ville, Va.; Frank Loyd, of Lynch- funds thus obtain_ed to be us~d by burg, Va. ; James Causey, of St. unemployment relief agencies.
Au_gustine, Fla.; Joseph Mayo, of !n designating the Episcopal ~~st?l, 'f..._a. · .Wilf!:_~d Roa~h, ?f ~Igh clash as the _charity game,
alt·e;:---1
Field November 7 promises to ex- cel the thrills of former years when
~hese old rivals struggled for grid- Iron supremacy. Football addicts have come to expect superlative per-
forty yards on a neat reverse play
for a touchdown. However, a long see the two games and the dedica- depression, which, he pointed out, White forward wall assumed the
pass from Harris to Henderson tion of the new Virginia stadium. placed the ball near the goal line, V. E. S. won the toss and elected just before the whistle blew for the to receive. Baer kicked to Captain first quarter. On the first play in LaLance who returned the ball ten the second period Anderson, full- yards to the thirty-yard stripe. On
back for the Baby Bishops, punched the second play of the game, La- the ball over the goal for the Gar-I Lance showed good form when he nets' first score. Forsyth's kick for plunged off guard for ten yards and the extra point was good. Again the a first down. Banff was held for a
boy gridsters scored in this quarter no-gain, but on the next play, a when Ashton, stellar halfback for beautiful forward pass, LaLance the locals, ran ten yards for an- to Bost was completed for twenty other touchdown on a cross-buck. yards and the second first down of Forsyth's kick for extra point Ithe game. ~aLance was stopped for (Continued on Page 4.) (Contmued on Page 3.)
was caused by the excess expendi- defensive twice. When the Cadets -ture of money after a period of recovered Sinclair's fumble on the
prosperity. He cited some causes twenty-yard line at the end of the and results of former depressions first quarter, they resorted to the and panics which were caused by air in a vain effort to score while
SCHOOL. L YNCHBURG,
MR. COSTOLO Coach of Football '31
-----. ' CURRENT EVENT TALKS
~nd should ~now somethmg of what ts gomg on m the world.
boro, in the Municipal Stadium, of 20-6
The Virginia Episcopal School Nulty a diminutive guard, and Thursday, October 22, with a dis- game in the last five minutes of Junior football team journeyed to
and Luck in the backfield, starred out the fact that the fall of the Brit- yard line where Johnny Bost, play- for the Valleymen. ish Government was indirectly due ing fullback in the absence of Cap- A good crowd of V. E. S. stu- to the war, since her war debts and tain Bob LaLance, bucked the ball
dents attended the game as the day loans amounted to billions of dollars over the last white marker for the was declared a holiday for the pur- which she was unable to pay. local aggregation's only tally.
pose of allowing them a chance to His next topic was that of the In the first half the Garnet and
early in the game when they drove the ball down to their opponents' 4-yard line and Barrow, the Junior
fullback, carried the ball across the goal. The attempt for extra point was unsuccessful. The Scottsburg goal was crossed again in the next quar!er by Edmunds, fleet V. E. S. quarterback. This time a pass from
Edmunds to Baskerville netted the extra point. The half ended with the score 13-0 in favor of V. E. S.
The game was a much closer con- test than the score describes for in the third period Scottsburg returned
with more strength and drove the ball down the field, with straight football, for a touchdown. This was made by Barnes, the Scottsburg fullback. A pass for extra point was (Continued on Page 4.)
over-production, abundance of sil- ver, stock crashes, business failures, and numerous other causes.
the next chance to tally came in the second quarter when Young punted outside on the Bishop's twenty-ftve yard stripe. Here the visitors at- tempted a field goal from place-
NOVEMBER 7TH
10. There were only four ,boys who Home-Coming Day W iI I B e
term for 1931-J2 ended on October attained an average of 90'Jo or more,
The next discussion was that of
the Manchurian question which is
causing so much trouble to the world ment, the kick was wide and again at large. He explained the situation the locals had successfully weath-
and its causes, and showed why it ered the visitors' siege. (Continued on Page 4.) (Continued on Page 3.)
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