De La Salle Institute - Torch Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The Torch squad later and proved to be a real find. The remainder of the squad con- sisted of Tom O'Keefe, a fast learning Junior, who later became a regular: J. Hammond, J. Kelleher and J. Casey. Casey, a first year man, showed promise and We can predict a bright future for him if he continues to play the game. Manager Steve Reidy and his contemporaries, Kemp and Dougherty, prepared an excellent schedule of twenty games. The season opened with our old rival Dwight, but they proved to be no match for us. It was quite a decisive victory. The next game was with St. Ann's defend- ing C. H. S. A. L. champions. The team put up a fine ight only to lose by a few points. It was in this game that we found out we were weak on reserve power. Regis was the next game and due to the illness of one of our players we again lost by a very close score. All Hallows came next in line and here it was that the quintet returned to their stride by soundly trouncing All Hallows team. Next on the schedule was Barnard School for Boys. They proved to be easy prey for our varsity and were easily beaten. In these encounters Nugent and Glynn, both Seniors, led the attack scoring almost at will. After a layoff, the schedule was resumed. Due to illness and disability on the part of three members on the varsity, De La Salle had quite a little difficulty in keeping a clean slate. In these encounters the sec- ond team was used and they gave a good account df themselves. In these games Joe McManmon and Tom O'Keefe led the attack for De La Salle. Based upon the showing of the second team in these games we can well pre- dict a good team for the following year. During the course of the year the attack was usually taken care of by Nugent, Curry and Glynn, while the defense was well taken care of by Joe Cosgrove. For the first time in three years De La Salle resumed their interclass activities by staging an interclass basketball league. The response was excel- lent and many interesting games were played. The first years showed the right kind of spirit and turned out in full force for the representation of their respective classes. Second year A proved to be the sensation of the tourney, when they supplied an attack and defense that would do justice to any team in the city of their size and age. They soundly trounced the winner of the third year duel and they put up a fine battle against the Seniors, but the Seniors had too much experience for their younger rivals although the Seniors played without the use of the varsity. Another feature this year was the renewal of the Junior varsity for the first time in many years. This team was captained by Pat Carrol, a very small fellow with a keen eye. They were composed mostly of the Sophomore A class. They played some fast teams and in every game gave a good account of themselves. This team will be heard of in later years for we are sure that they will represent the varsity on the basketball court some day, and we feel sure that they will make the other teams feel blue. 1930

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kifid- .. ur: . QMJQE The Torch P SCIWDIULIE Cathedral Prep. .April II Home Hamilton Inst. . .May I3 Away Loyola ........ April I5 Home Iona Prep . .- .... May 16 Away St. Ann's Acad.. .April I7 Home Loyola ........ May 20 Away Manhattan Prep.April 23 Home All Hallows .... May 23 Rway St. Ann's Acad.. .April 25 Away McBurney ..... May, 27 Away Iona Prep ...... April 29 Home Cathedral Boy's. .May 29 Home All Hallows ..... May 1 Home Manhattan Prep.June 3 Away Cathedral Prep. .May 6 Away Mt. St. Michael's.June ro Away Cathedral Boy's. May 9 Away I Upon' looking over the records of previous years we see that De La Salle often came out very successful in her baseballcombats. and several times won the city championships. The call for baseball has been answered with the same enthusiasm and spirit of the championship years. , Among the candidates we see only five veterans of last year, not one of whom is a pitcher, but judging from the material we have we expec't to open the season with a winning combination under the guidance of Mr. Carl Brady, our coach. After .the preliminary training of fielding, batting and warming up we iind veteran Hayes captaining the team with an infield made up of R. Nugent. J. Hammond, J. Cosgrove, F. Gormley and J. McManmon, On the pitching mound we see T. O'Keefe, J. O'Duyer and G. Arkedis upholding our honor on the diamond. J. Fetherst-on, H. Boyle and J. Smith are looking after the out- field positions. We expect to come a success on the schedule below prepared by manager Mr. P. Dingle. '- Robert Hayes. ,. . . . .Captain Carl Brady ..... ..... C oach Prank Dingle .... ' .... Manager 1930