St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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should gravitate to the ice sport rather than the court game. However, the indoor game attracted the veterans of preceding years and a few newcomers who more than made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in ability. Prior to the official opening of the hoop campaign, our prospects for a successful season were dealt a serious blow by the loss of Fr. Collins who had been chiefly re- sponsible for the organization of Basketball at St. Sebastian's on a major sport scale. We were fortunate, though, in being able to offset the loss by the acquisition of Reverend Iohn P. Redding as coach. Fr. Redding in his pre-Seminary days, had played the game extensively in school-boy and semi-pro circles, and was eminently qualified to teach us the fine points of court play. Practice sessions under our new mentor began long before Christmas, but it was not until after the holidays that we took on our scheduled opponents. We opened against the neighboring St. Columbkille's quintet which was expected to be an important factor in Catholic League competition of1945. During the first half we managed to match our rivals point for point, but shortly after the inter- mission they pulled ahead and led us 28-21 at the final whistle. The result was un- satisfactory ofcourse, but Fr. Redding found consolation in the 'play-making abilities of Dan Sullivan and Dick Tonner, and also in the promise shown by Hilton Collupy, a freshman. This contest also served to demon- strate to us the importance of free tries, for St. Columbkille's could lay their victory and we could attribute our defeat to that de- partment. Our second outing also took on an un- favorable aspect when we were forced to submit to a 36-22 defeat by Belmont Hill. Our boys did well enough, but they were not able to cover adequately the omnipresent Nemrow who scored almost half of Belmont's total. Our weakness in foul shooting had been remedied since our initial appearance, and the play of Sullivan, Baker and Dermody was outstanding from the Red and Black point of view. The progressive development of our hoop- sters finally paid dividends when we were able to register clean-cut decisions over our next two adversaries, Sacred Heart of Wey- mouth and Rivers School. The Weymouth lads found themselves completely outplayed and their coach paid tribute to the work of our Herb Baker and Dick Tonner, who were the chief basket-makers in our 27-12 triumph. Against Rivers it was Dan Sullivan who found his eye and registered 20 of our 29 point total. The former Andover boy had a field day and his efforts were notably abetted by the general court-work of Frank Dermody and the defensive play of O'Leary and Collupy. - As The Arrow goes to press, the Red and Black still has the greater part of its season to complete, and is looking forward to meeting Cambridge School and Middlesex both at home and abroad, and also to return engagements with Belmont Hill and Rivers. If their work in the last two games is any criterion, we may expect our quintet to garner the lion's share of the spoils and compile an impressive record for the cam- paign. b