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

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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.

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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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CLUB CREW saw two unusual events take place. The club rowed against an outside opponent, The New York Institute for the Blind. The Viking four beat the Institute's four by five lengths in a 3X4 mile race. To even up the score, the Institute sculler beat George Mitchell in a 1X2 mile singles race. The second rarity of the season was the winning of the club tournament by the Vikings. The Viking eight had a disappointing tendency to start slowly and then pick up speed, gaining fast on the Acheans in the last quarter mile, but never quite making it. The Viking four, however, had entirely different tactics. They started fast, kept going fast, and won all their races with about seven lengths separating them from the Acheans. Since the eights rowed only four races, and the fours rowed Eve, the final score in the series was 5-4 in favor of the Vikings. JUNIOR VARSITY TENNIS had a poor season, winning one and losing two. In the hrst match of the campaign, played at SAS, the Little Red lost to Gilman, 7-2. Dunning was the lone victor in the singles department, winning 6-2, 6-4, while the doubles team of McGiffert and Shettle took the only other SAS win, 6-3, 6-4. The next match was played against Tower Hill, and lost by a 5-2 count. Baxter and Hutton won the only two matches taken by the Saints, Baxter by 6-3, 6-1, and Hutton by 7-5, 6-2. The last match of the season, and the only one won by the Little Red, was played agains't Wilmington Friends at Wilmington. The Saints took both doubles matches, with the Dunning-Hutton, C. team winning, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, and Hutton, P. and Shettle winning, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Of the five singles matches, two were won by the SAS netmen, Hathaway by 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, and Peterson by 6-3, 7-5. JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL started the season with two wins, but despite their good start, ended the season with a 3-3 mark. The first two games saw good pitching and hitting in a 10-5 decision over Tower Hill and an 11-3 win over Middletown. Phil Butcher was the winning pitcher in both contests and was backed by the strong hitting of Capt. Fell Davis, Rick Teuscher, and Mike Veasey. Traveling to Dover for the next game, the Little Reds piled up a big lead in the early innings and watched it dwindle to nothing as the game progressed. The game went into extra innings and finally Dover pushed the winning run across to win by the tight score of 13-12. In their next game, the J.V. played a much improved Tower Hill team. The game ended 8-3 in favor of Tower Hill and the J.V. had a 2-2 record. The next game saw Jerry Scherer pitch a one-hitter and strike Bill 'Cameron out three times in a 10-2 win over Phelps School. In their last game, a return match with Middletown, the J.V.'s lost a game sparked with bad feeling by the close score of 6-5. The aftermath was spectacular. With this game, the J.V. wound up the season with a fair 3-3 record. JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL, led by Captain and high scorer George Lodoen, broke even on the 1954 campaign, winning 6 and losing 6. The Little Reds opened the season with a 34-24 loss to Tower Hill. They then met and defeated Sanford on the home court, 45-39. The next game was played at Westtown and lost, 49-33. Against Smyrna, SAS took an early lead and held it to win going away, 47-33. Against Bayard, Lodoen racked up 23 points for the individual scoring record of the season, to lead the J.V. to a 39-28 win. The second Bayard game was more one-sided, as the Little Red won 47-32. A return match with Tower Hill on Dance Weekend was again dropped, 33-31. The J.V. then won two in a row, over Smyrna, 39-35, and Germantown Friends, 44-43, and then lost, 61-40, to a powerful Wilmington Friends team. The Hnal two games of the season were also lost, the first to Salesianum, 32-23, and the last to Caesar Rodney, 33-28. JUNIOR BASKETBALL played two games, both with Bayard Junior High School of Wilmington, and lost both. The first, played at home, was close, with the Midget Reds leading by one point until the final minute of play, when a two-pointer dropped through to give Bayard a 15-14 win. Fred Case was high scorer with four points. He was followed by Thomas with three. The second game, played at Bayard, was not so close, with the Wilmington boys controlling 'the ball throughout the game and coming out on the long end of a 32-22 score. Case and Dave Baxter tied for scoring honors with ten points apiece. The Work Squad I Fin! Row: Quillin, J., Bartholomew, Fairfield, Rightmyer, Levington, Bateman, L. I Second Row: Maclnnes, Scherer, Stuhlmuller, Mr. Schmolze, Mr. Pell, Ralston, Barnett, Herring, Jarvis.