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sixth. \Villiams singled with one away and took second on Betty's base knock. Two errors by the Fork Union second sacker then enabled V. E. S. to tie the score at five all.
In the last of the seventh :\lather singled for Fork l;nion ami scored the winning run as De- Young lined a triple along the right field fout line.
Woodberry Slugfest
May 13- \Voodberry
School repeatedly took advantage of the "breaks" and downed the Bishop nine, 11 to 6 this afternoon on the W oodberry diamond al- though the Tigers were outhit 12 to 7.
Robbie Lee and Andreae Hodg- son fattened their averages with four and three hits respectively. William Long of \'. E. S. was the fielding sensation of the clay. He made a great catch of Paisley Boney's drive in the fourth.
\ V oodberry scored five Wlearned runs in the first three innings and added two more in the fourth on a pair of singles and two infield outs.
:Meanwhile the Bishops rallied for one run in the third on two walks and Lee's single. Seaman, who pitched the first four innings
for the Tigers, was removed in the fifth in favor of \Vhite who was greeted with a three-run barrage by V. E. S., on singles by Hodgson and ·w illiams, two more passes. and Betty's two-bagger. Betty drove across another in the eighth, and Lee singled Hodgson home with the
final Bishop run in the ninth. Robbie Lee hurled the entire game, striking out nine and walk- ing only four. Between them, White and Seaman allowed twelve hits, walked fourteen men and struck out only seven. Nevertheless the T igers capitalized on the "breaks" of which
V. E. S. failed to take advantage. Koch, 86; Perkins, 66
April 20-Graham R. E. Koch's squad of Garnet cindermen over- came a hard fighting ·white team captained by David (the Chest) Perkins on Johnson Field this afternoon before throngs of ex- cited spectators. Graham's boys won, 86 to 66.
Lanky John Page was high scorer for the day, gathering thir- teen points with a first place in the Junior 60 and the Junior 100 and a third of the points in the
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Summary:
60-Yard Dash-Gaul (White); Bell,
A. (Garnet); Lee (Garnet). Time: 7.9. 100-Yard Dash-Cowdery (White); Peele (Garnet); Gaul (White). Time:
10.9.
220-Yard Dash-Cowdery (White);
Peele (Garnet); Bugg (Garnet). Time: 24.6.
440-Yard Dash- Bugg (Garnet) ; Thomas (White); Field (White). Time: 59.5.
880-Yard Dash- Senef'f (Garnet); Dunbar (White); Claytor (White). Time: 2:24.
120-Yard Low Hurdles-Betty (Gar- net); Matthews (Garnet); Arthur (White). Time: 17.3.
880-Yard Relay- Garnet; W hite. THE METEOR