St Andrews Seminary - Mapav Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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VCDLLEYBALL The sporTs year already Tulled To The brlm wlTh sporTs acTuvvTues broughT wlTh :T To SaunT Andrew s someThung new an The lme oT malor sporTs For The TrrsT Tnme IU The hnsTory oT The school volleyball Took :Ts place wlTh The leading sporTs I-Ience The Tlrs Tlme a composnTe all sTar Team was selecTed Trom boTh ClTy and I-louse volleyball squads The hoT summer days brlnglng wlTh Them Their laTe sunseTs enabled Thus new porT To Tlourush AT The l'Iouse a TwllughT league composed oT nvne Teams w Tormed The league games were played each evennng unTal Tnme Tor sTudy hall The new compeTuTuon was so unusually even ThaT only aTTer many close baTTles dld The Ca dunals puloTed by Don Wlse pull down The TuTle as league champs The malor sporTs whlch usually domlnaTe The greaTer parT oT The Tleld days were Torced Thls year To share Their glory wuTh The new game In TacT volleyball played a parT an The Tleld days wlTh :Ts all sTar play oTT games beTween The CnTy and The House The CrTy AThleTuc CommuTTee senT ouT :Ts leadlng players To compeTe weTh The I-louse sexTeT As a resulT oTTh1s game The Tollowlng were chosen as The TlrsT volleyball all sTars oT SaunT Andrew s EmmeTT Halloran Hugh Brady Charles McCarThy Mike Dwyer Nucl: Sassam Donald Wlse I.0u Uddrlrll James Larlcm CapTaln Tom Vaul OTTo Vogf Ed Wedow MISSION FIELD DAY OT all The days oT The school year There IS one on whlch The sTudenTs oT SaunT Andrews may Turn Trom The I-IumanlTles To aThleTlcs Thus us The annual Mlsslon Day IT as noT only The sTudenTs who Throw aszde Their boolcs buT even The unusually sTa1d members oT The TacuITy Talce acTlve parT In The acTlvlT1es and The Tun lvlnssuon Day ns one oT The Tew occasxons when The ClTy and The I-Touse Tace each oTher on The sporT Tleld STudenTs oT all years engage IH conTesTs oT varnous Types on The SalnT Wulllam s campus The mann TeaTure oT This year s Ivlusslon Day was as In The pasT The all sTar TooTbaII game un whach The hard Tughhng cuTy Team was Torced To bow To The powerTuI House Team The aerial oTTensuve oT The day was TeaTured by Paul Morgan as passer and Ed Wedow as receiver Thus combmahon would have Turned The Tnde oT The conTesT :T IT had noT been Tor The marvelous bloclcung and Tleld runmng by John Cnervo and Bob Collms The remamung sporTs acTuvuT1es whnch compleTed The day were baseball volleyball and The varnous Txeld meeTs In which all Toolc parT Bob Downs sTarred In The lclclcung conTesT whsle Jim Beeman ouTclassed The resT oT The Tleld In The relay race .izbzamoncl yulzge :Abou 74 . I I . . I - I I . . Cf..

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BASEBALL For many years The supporTers oT baslseTball have made The claim ThaT as Tar as SainT Andrewls is concerned The hardwood sporT is The mosT popular pasTime. For years ThaT has been True buT in IQ44 baseball reTurned once again To iTs Tamiliar place as The King oT SporTsl'. The diamond game has usually been handicapped by The early spring weaTher in which iT musT be played. Rain and cold weaTher have wroughT havoc wiTh schedules in pasT years, buT The game lasT season was played in The warm monThs oT July and AugusT. The TalenT in The league, Though noT oT a caliber superior To ThaT oT preceding years, was more evenly divided in The selecTion oT Teams. As a resulT, scores like I5-3 and l2' 7 disappeared, while 3-2 and 2-I became Tamiliar sighTs in The I944 scoreboolc. ln sharp conTrasT To oTher years, iT was a piTcher's heaven, wiTh The Twirl- ing oT John Rogan Bill FiTzgerald Bill Amann and Mike Hogan Two Teams The Crane men and The Dadges Tied Tor TirsT place aT The end oT The season The PoliTes Force broughT up The rear buT despiTe a laTe season slump Tir' :shed only a game and a halT behind OuTside The league an all sTar T-louse Team engaged in Tour close by conTesTed games Three wiTh The diocesan pruesTs and The oTher wiTh The SainT Bernard Ten ln The series wlTh The priesTs The all sTars dropped Two games aTTer winning The TirsT On The SainT Bernard s diamond a laTe mnTh inning rally broughT vicTory To The malor seminary a rso ay ora Ma Rc no aan osEWe mlamoncl Jail! e clzfzon 73 Kneeifg: W. Amanr, L. Cuadrini, M. Hogan, W. WhiTe J. Beemar. ST nding: W. A oer n, H, Br d , P, M g n, C. CC r'hy, J. gan, G. Scl 'Q p W. G li gher, R. C in, . dev.. . . e 6 . .

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