St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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82 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Abow: Sc'c'110 of l'I'C'C'l7f biking r'xj1r'rli1'i011s of fha Sain! Albans Trail Club, on fbi' SlJe1umzl0alJ River naar ClQarlcs1'0w11. Lefi: Four 77?C'll1!7f'fS of ibc Club staffing 011 zz hfkr from Sexton Sbvltcr, rzvar Rauzsc'y'x Craft, wcsz' of Slaunion. The Trail Club A NEW organization was instituted in the School this year when a group of veteran hikers formed the Saint Albans Trail Club. lnterest was first aroused in hiking three years ago, when Mr. Phillips, a member of the Appalachian Trail Club, led Alexander, Schoenfeld, Terry, and Hare into the Virginia Blue Ridge for a week among such colorful haunts as White Oak Canon, Hogback Mountain, and Mary,s Rock. These hikers met early in the fall this year and elected Mr. Phillips president of the Club and Hare secretary. They also drew up a consti- tution, which states that before any prospective hiker may join the Club he must take a probationary hike with some of the members. On this basis of selection Rowell and Piggott were admitted to the Club, and they accompanied the veterans on an extended Easter trek down into the picturesque Shenandoah. On this trip two members turned in an unusual performance, cover- ing thirty-two miles in less than eighteen hours of day-and-night trek- king. Leaving camp in the middle of the night, they hiked by moon- light to a distant mountain, on the summit of which they cooked break- fast and watched the sunrise. Turning back, they arrived in camp by mid-afternoon.

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 8 1 with two out in the ninth, an easy grounder went through the legs of a St. Albans inielder and two runners scored to win the game for Woodberry. The team has some consolation for these two defeats in the fact that both were caused by committing errors and not by being out-hit or out- pitched. The game with Gilman was the closest, most exciting, and best played contest of recent seasons. The Blues' 2-1 victory was especially enjoyable because they beat a pitcher who had two no-hit games to his credit this year and a team which had won nine straight games. But the believe-it- or-not element in this feat was the fact that Captain Hare, who had never pitched a game for the School, was called in from the outfield to go the entire distance against him. Gilman scored in the first inning on a triple and an error, but from there on until the end it was a pitching duel between Plitt, of Gilman, and Hare. The Blues tied the score in the fifth, when Hare was hit by a pitched ball, stole second, and scored on LeFevre's single. They won the game in the last half of the ninth, when Cromelin, who got on base by an error, scored on Terry's hit. - So, although two games have not yet been played, the season is already a success. And the team will long be remembered for its fighting spirit and its ability to come from behind and win. Next year,s team will have many veterans as a nucleus for a successful team, as only four members of this year's starting line-up are leaving School. Alumni .......,. . . . Georgetown Prep ...... St. Andrews ,,.. Episcopal ......., , . . Woodberry Forest Gilman ..,,... Landon .,.,. McDonough . . . WOl'1 , WOI1 won lost, lost, won lost, lost,

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