St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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The third face-off of the season permitted us to renew acquaintanceship with the ardent rivals of our first season, St. Patrick's of Stoneham. We found the green-jerseyed lads a trifle weaker than we had expected, and we were able to pierce their net five times while keeping our own inviolate. Scoring honors went to Phillips and Barry for two successful missions apiece, while Mul found the range once. We couldn't help but notice that Malden Catholic had been keep- ing pace with us week by week, and the race began to assume the proportions of a two- team struggle. On January 13th we were introduced to the league's new member, and the neophytes found themselves completely outclassed. Right from the first whistle our stalwarts began to pepper the Lynn goalie, and no less than twelve of our shots dented the strings. In the scoring orgy Mui was responsible for six goals and three assists, the league's top individual record of the season, while Phillips blazed home three markers and played the supporting role on six occasions -the latter also establishing a new record for the Catholic circuit. Barry, with two goals and Bob Murphy with one were the other lamplighters. The league competition reached its first half climax when the two undefeated sextets of the loop faced each other. Both Malden Catholic and the Red and Black had won four straight, and the Boston Press gave plenty of notice to the prospective struggle. Malden got the jump on us right from the start when their right-wing, Gorman, put the puck past Paul McGrath in 58 seconds. Before two minutes more had elapsed the Malden center had added another stinging shot that turned on the red light and we were behind 2-O. Two goals were not enough to disconcert the St. Sebastian's rooters, but they did begin to feel that the fates were not dealing kindly with us when an injury robbed us of the services of Eddie Phillips. Ed had picked up the puck at mid-ice and had headed under full steam for the opponents' goal. He had traversed most of the distance when a legitimate check from a rival defenseman caused him to crash into one of the iron posts supporting the net, the same post that had creased his ribs in the Mission game the year before. It was his right knee that received the full force of the impact, and it was feared at first that the knee-cap had been broken. With Phillips' injury the team suffered a paralyzing blow, and the revamped line-up, that moved Murphy to wing and sent Ellard to a defense post, yielded another goal before the end of the first period. The two succeed- ing stanzas saw our stalwarts pressing with might and main, but the Malden defense proved impregnable until half-way through the final stanza when Mul managed to find the range and sink a lone, but consoling tally. In the meantime, the Fellsway lads had added another marker in the second period, so that the final tabulation against us was 4-1. On January 27th, the opening of the league's second half found us engaging St. Mary's of Waltham, and, weakened as we were by the loss of Phillips, we received more competi- tion than we wanted from the vastly-im- proved Watch City skaters. The final buzzer sounded with us out in front by a 5-3 margin that had been amassed by the joint efforts of Obie, Hank and Mul g the captain scoring three times to nullify the heroic efforts of McCusker and Bourque, the Waltham lumi- naries. The next three weeks brought us successive victories over St. Clement's 8-O, St. Mary's of Lynn 7-O and St. Patrick's 3-1. The first fray was held on a Sunday but it was no day of rest for the Red and Black as they skated rings around our Somerville opponents, Hank registering three tallies, Mul and Murph two apiece, and young McAuliffe a singleton. The Lynn contest saw Henry, lack and Bob repeat their marksmanship and chalk up exactly the same number of goals as they had garnered the previous Sunday. As the score indicates the Stoneham game was a tight affair that had a Green tinge to

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