Tobacco Road. They then tasted defeat for the first time when they traveled to Cary and took on NCFC U23 (losing 2–1).

They took a bit of a break from PDL play to travel to Connecticut to play in the Steinbrecher Cup this past weekend. The Steinbrecher Cup is a four-team tournament featuring the four best amateur teams in the country from the previous season. Charlotte (the 2017 PDL Champ) took on Lansdowne Bhoys (USASA National Amateur Champ) while the Michigan Bucks (2017 Steinbrecher Champ) took on Elm City Express (2017 NPSL Champ). Charlotte lost to the Michigan Bucks in the final 2–0 after beating the Lansdowne Boys 6–2 (aet) on Friday.

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A tree grows in Butler

I read about the scheduled demolition of the Butler graduate student apartments (Notebook, April 2) and wanted to relate a family story. The photograph below shows my wife, Christy, and daughter, Stephanie, in front of a tree at 221C Halsey St. The tree was planted on September 27, 1947, by Lorenz A.E. Eitner *52. At the time Lorenz was a graduate student at Princeton. The occasion was the birth of his daughter, who would become my wife. The tree was a sapling that Lorenz took from the shore of Lake Carnegie while on a walk and transported in his coat pocket.

Lorenz’s time at Princeton was interrupted by World War II. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army’s Office of Strategic Services, doing