St Andrews School - Criss Cross Yearbook (Middletown, DE)

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Fifi! Rnun' Close, Jarvis, Lodoen, Klutey, XV:-st, Capiaivz, Cannon, Foster, Hart, Mitchell, C., Parks, llfarmgur. Second Row: Luke, Alston, Penn, Thombs, Evans, Cummin, Beatty, Bair, Murray, Schultze. VARSITY BASEBALL The varsity baseball team opened its 1953 season at Landon. Clayton Mitchell pitched a tight game for the Saints, allowing three runs on five hits. He gave up no walks. In the fifth inning, a Landon batter laid down a squeeze bunt along the third base line. Third baseman Howard Hart tagged the runner at home, but the umpire's disputed call was Safe! This increased Landon's slim lead to 3-1. St. Andrew's pushed across a run in the sixth inning, but the score remained a close 3-2 when the game ended. i The next game was played at home against Wilmington Friends. St. Andrew's managed to get only one hit, a single in the first inning, but the Friends' pitcher proved to be extremely wild, and taking advantage of nine walks, two errors, and two hit batters, the Saints racked up a 7-4 victory, jake Bair was the winning pitcher, walking seven and striking out eight. The next game, against Gilman, turned out to be similar to a nightmare. The Saints scored four runs on hits by Hart, Close, Penn, and Klutey, but the entire team fell apart after three inn- ings. SAS pitchers gave up thirteen hits and nine walks, while the Fielders committed thirteen errors. The final score was Z2-4, in favor of Gilman. On Tuesday of the following week, Smyrna invaded the SAS diamond confidently, but left dejectedly on the short end of a 10-6 score. The Saints scored 4 in the first, 4 in the second, and two in the fourth, while the Eagles acquired 1 in the first, 2 in the second, 1 in the fourth, and 2 in the seventh, Chuck Close maintained his RBI lead, driving in the fifth and sixth runs. Clay Mitchell pitched a tight game, allowing only four hits and no walks. The victory was the second out of four games for the Saints. On the following Saturday, the Big Red journeyed to Washington, only to lose to Sidwell Friends. 7-1. Friends scored seven runs in the First five innings, while the lone SAS tally came on a homer by Hugh Cannon in the sixth. In addition to his home run, Cannon smacked a triple, but the hitting of his teammates was not sufficient to pull the game out of the fire. The Saturday of Dance Weekend, Dover visited Richardson Field. Bill Beatty started on the mound for SAS, but was taken out in favor of Mitchell. Bob Foster brought across a run for the Saints in the Erst inning, but Dover scored three in their half of the second. The Red retaliated with two to tie the score at three-all. Dover climbed on the see-saw again, and scored two in the third to lead 5-3. The Saints came back with one tally in both the third and fourth innings, to deadlock the score a second time. At this point the rain, which had threatened all afternoon, arrived, and the game was called after four innings, with the score 5-5. The Saints' next victim was Tower Hill. Playing at home, the Big Red nabbed an easy 9-5 victory behind the strong hurling of Clayton Mitchell. In the first, after the Saints had already scored twice, George Lodoen smacked a tremendous home run over the road in left field with a runner on first base. Harry Jarvis raised his average, getting four hits in four appearances, while Captain Hal West went two for three, and Hugh Cannon had two for four. The Saints scored their nine runs on a total of eleven hits, one walk, and six Tower Hill errors. The last game of the season was played against a highly reputed St. Alban's nine. jake Bair started, but was removed for Mitchell after the St. Alban's team scored six runs in the second inning. Four more runs in the sixth gave St. Alban's a 10-0 victory. The team improved greatly throughout the season, under the capable direction of Peanuts Riley, the only outside coach the school has ever had.

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Firrt Raw: Barclay, Bahr, Battin. Serond Raw: Mr. Hughes, Walden, Clark, Brumbach, Captain, Kenney, Smith, T., Manager, Mr. Hawkins. VARSITY TENNIS In defeating the University of Delaware freshmen 7-2 to open the 1955 campaign, the SAS varsity tennis team ran its string of first match wins to 5. Well-coached by Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hawkins, and with four of last year's lettermen returning-Bahr, Barclay, Battin and Brumbach- the team got off to a good start, with only Brumbach and Bahr, playing in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions, losing to the college boys. In the next match, the Saints faced tough opposition in Gilman, but'managed to pull out a 5-4 victory. The first three singles matches were lost, but.of the doubles, only the Walden-Battin combination was beaten. The Big Red netmen then traveled to Baltimore, and made it a successful journey, defeating Baltimore Friends, 7-2. Bahr, playing No, 1 in place of the inhrmaryized Capt. Brumbach, was the only singles loser, while the Bahr-'Clark combine failed to come through in the doubles. 'Continuing in their winning ways, the SAS racketeers, still minus their No. 1 man, never'theless shut out Sidwell Friends, 9-O. Barclay and Walden were the only ones to have to go three sets to win. In the next match, Walden, one of the two Big Red netmen still undefeated in singles play, met his Waterloo against Westtown Friends, losing along with 'the doubles team of Brumbach and Barclay. These gave Westtown its only two wins on another victorious day for the Saints. Barclay, the only other unbeaten member of the team, had his match canceled, as did the recovered Brumbach. By winning this one, the Big Red team took its fifth straight match of the season. However, all good things must come to an end, and this winning streak was no exception. The fatal blow was struck by a powerful Haverford team, who won decisively, 5-1. Brumbach was the only member of the team to chalk up a victory. just four days later, St. Alban's visited SAS, and the Blue and White went away happily- with an 8-1 win to take home. This time it was the doubles team of Bahr and Clark who were the only ones to break into the win column. A week later, the Big Red took its revenge on St. james, shutting the Hagerstowners out, 7-0. In doing this, the SAS netmen extended their scoring streak to forty outside matches. The last time 'they were shut out was by Landon in the first match of 1947. The faculty match was played on May 27, with the School team winning, 5-2. In the singles, Brumbach was the only loser, being beaten by Mr. Hughes. Bahr, Barclay, Walden, and Kenney all won. The doubles team of Battin and Walden won, but the Brumbach-Barclay combination lost to Mr. Washburn and Mr. Hughes. This win gave the Saints a fine overall record for the season of seven wins and two losses. An even better season is predicted for '54, since the only member of the team who is not back is Walden.

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su V Fixx! Bvar: Wfright, Macfnrlane, French, Pickett, Captain, Mitchell, Cox. Scrum! Boar: Hulick, D., Philippi, Owen, Cain, Wginsey, Cox. VARSITY CREW The 1953 varsity crew had a fair season, with the first boat winning one out of four races and the second boat winning two out of four. There was a great lack of experience in the crews as a whole, as there was only one returning letterman on the squad, All the boys in the first boat had been varsity the preceeding year, but in the second, only one had previous varsity experience. The other three came up from' the club crew ranks. The first race of the season took place in Washingtcmn on April 25 against Washingttan and Lee High School. Arthur Wright, Ward French, Sandy Macfarlane, and Charlie Pickett rowed hrst boat and Kit Cain, Harrison Owen, Tony Philippi, and Derek Hulick rowed second boat. Both boats lost, but the race proved to have given valuable experience. The following week, the crews traveled to Bellville, New Jersey. The hrst boat lost by about one length and the second boat won by the same margin. Dance weekend saw Nutley High School of Poughkeepsie, New York and Arlington High of Bellville, N. J. rowing against the Saints. SAS took a clean sweep of all the races, winning by one and two lengths respectively. Two weeks later, the crew went to Philadelphia for the Stotesbury Regatta. Both boats lost by a good margin, which was mainly due to drawing a bad lane. Retiring Captain Charlie Pickett predicted a much better season in 1954 under the leadership of Captain-elect Kit Cain.