Greenwich Country Day School - Spire Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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.E Eighth Grade relay at Field Day Holland drops one in. Dwight and Silas fight it Out- Pistor and Frasehe prepare for combat Middle School modern dance? Brunswick game offers a variety of spectators. ll 113

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Senior riding has successful hunt team Milbank, Serrell, Stone, Vanderbilt, Agnew, Flinn. Each Wednesday riders from fourth grade to ninth came to school in their riding clothes, and impatiently waited for athletics. After lunch they eagerly piled into the car hoping that they would jump, and proceeded on the long ride to Kelsey's or Round Hill. Upon arriving, the tension mount- ed as Teddy assigned them to horses. This year there were two inter-school competi- tion shows. The senior team, for the first time in many years, succeeded in winning the hunt teams. The juniors, as usual, walked off with the cham- pionship. The riding captains who successfully led the teams throughout the year were Laura Vanderbilt, senior, and Pixie Serrell, junior. Girls borrow boys' skating rink Several times a week girls of the school bundled up in overcoats and galoshes and trudged to the rink. They tried to squeeze in a few precious minutes of skating before their hands grew so cold that they were forced to retreat to the club- house and a comforting, warming fire. While our staunch contemporaries dashed across the cold rink in a hardy game of red rover , the more graceful of us practiced figures. For all, it was a profitable year, although for many the most that Was accomplished was the acquisition of a mild case of frostbite.

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I l RUW 1: Moore, Elliman, Nelson, Plowden, Fish, Searls. ROW 2: Willers, Weber, Hornblower, Knapp, Knowles, Macl-call. ROW 3: Mr. E. French, Bunnell, Green, Coxe, Warner, Mr. P. French. Front door gym privilege goes to Varsity Baseball The baseball season opened this year in the middle of one of the Worst droughts in fifteen years. With clean uniforms, dry fields, and dry tears from the basketball season before, sixteen varsity players appeared before coaches, Big', Mr. French and Mr. Efinger. Their gloves well- oiled and their spirits high, they began a two-week period of exhausting practice, readying them- selves for their first game of the season, Fairfield Country Day. On the game day nine representatives of our black and orangev team took their positions in the playing field and awaited the umpireis signal to begin. Mark Willers, on the mound, and Thorne Warner, behind the plate, composed the battery. Ned Bunnell, Johnny Knowles, Fred Green, and Ray Hornblower were the comple- ment of the infield and gave Mark what little assistance he needed. Picking daisies in the out- field was left to Whit Knapp, Corky Moore, and 114 Steve Weber. Since only one hit ever reached them, the 5 - 2 victory came in slightly easier than was expected. This same line-up met Choate for the second game of the season. We played a tight ball game with a 3-all score at the last of the ninth inning. With two men out, Knowles bunted Weber to third, Hornblower executed a perfect squeeze bunt down the third base line, and Weber raised the dust around home plate for a final score of 4 - 3. The Beat Choate signs that plastered the school had a salutary effect. Because of these victories the boys now proud- ly walk through the front door of the gym, a privilege which only victors are allowed. All their hopes centered on having a winning season, and they knew that they would be able to achieve this goal if they gave it everything they possibly could.