St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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lowing the home team to score three in the second and five in the third. McNabb, on our mound, was not as effective as usual and our fielding was ragged in spots. After the nightmare of those two frames, however, we played air-tight ball and held our opponents scoreless. Offensively we manufactured three more runs in the fifth to forge ahead and our three last tallies in the seventh put the game on ice, 12-8. Six of our thirteen hits went to Dan Sullivan and Myron Bullock, while Benny Pickard and Fish Collupy took second honors with two bingles each. Andy McAuliffe found the range only once but it was with a screeching triple, Fish also poled a three-bagger, and Myron had a double in- cluded among his three safeties. Totalling the hurling statistics, we found that McNabb had been touched for nine hits, had been worked for six passes, but had emerged with eight whiff victims. MOUND ACE-f-Bob No-Hit McNabb Our longest trip of the year was made to Cranwell in the Berkshires as the School's re- ward to its diamond representatives. Leaving the Hill on Friday afternoon and stopping at Dalton, Mass., over-night, we made our way leisurely to Lenox the next morning. With McNabb serving them up on our mound, the fray loomed up as a pitcher's battle between our Bob and the Jesuit School's McLean. It was the fourth frame before we were able to dent the plate with a single tally, but Cranwell came right back in its half to tie it up at 1-1. In the sixth, however, we broke loose when Johnny Pickard blasted out a triple with the bases filled and sent home three markers. The following inning saw us pick up one more and the eighth yielded our two final registers, enough to make the final score read, 7-1. Pic and Fish divided batting honors with two safe blows per man, and the remaining five hits were scattered among Sul, Mul, Hank, Dan O'Brien and McNabb. The latter was in perfect form throughout the entire game, allowing only three widely scattered safeties and not issuing a single pass, His strike-out victims numbered 10 and brought his season's record to the im- posing figure of 66. Memorial Day, coming in Graduation Week, provided St. Sebastian's with the op- HSAFE BY A MILE The Fire Chief hits the dirt to make third TALLY - O'Brien crosses the plate to make our lead 7-1 over St. Patricks

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to Noble and Greenough, and Paul McGrath making his second appearance of the season on our mound. Held scoreless for two in- nings, we broke out in the third and chalked up four runs, a feat which we duplicated in the eighth. In between we were good for two in both the fourth and sixth and a lone tally in the fifth. Meanwhile the Dedham lads were not having too much success with Paul's offerings, garnering only six hits during the entire fray. While he struck out 9, McGrath was also generous to the extent of 10 walks, and late in the game he gave way to McNabb, who issued 5 more while getting 3 strikeouts. Although we benefited by five errors on the part of our opponents, it was St. Sebastian's strength with the willow that won the day. This time it was Mul, Hank Barry and Dan O' Brien who paced the attack with three safeties each. Fresh- man Andy continued his streak with two bingles, and Dan Sullivan contributed a lusty double. Every regular, except Gibby, poled out at least one hit. In short, the 13-5 final score constituted a fair expression of our superiority. For our fourth start we traveled to Belmont Hill, and this encounter provided our rookie, Bob McNabb, with an opportunity to prove that his debut performance was no flash in the pan. A bit unsteady at the start, due to errors behind him, Mac yielded one run in the first and two in the second. However, from that point on the Hilltoppers were not able to score again until the last of the ninth, when they pushed across a lone and last tally. In the meantime, we were having our troubles with Belmont's Bill Gelotte, and it was not until the fourth that we chalked up our first marker. However, in both the sixth and eighth frames we added two runs, which were sufficient to give us a 5-4 margin. In the batting department, McAuliffe's triple won the orchid for the day, although Sull and Mul came up with two out of four. When the scorer's totals were recorded, it was found that McNabb had 19 whiffs to his credit, while issuing 6 bases on balls. We knew then that St. Sebastian's had unearthed DIAMOND SPARKPLUG With Mul behind the plate, we had the equivalent of a playing coach a pitching find who would bring us many a victory. Taking to the road again, we journeyed to Middlesex to cross bats with a really for- midable nine that gave us our hardest game of the season. Again it was McNabb who drew the starting assignment, and he had his work cut out for him to best Emmons and Stoddill, the home team hurlers. We broke the ice in the third with a single tally, but Middlesex drew ahead with two in the fourth. After having gone scoreless for four frames,we managed to eke out two runs in the eighth to make the count 3-2 and end the day's scoring for both sides. Sull and McAuliffe with two apiece accounted for half of our eight hits, although Mul, Pickard, Barry and Gibbons inserted timely bingles. During the fray, our Sophomore hurler added 11 more scalps to his strike-out string, and McAuliffe had a busy day at the initial sack with 13 put-outs. When we paid a return visit to Noble and Greenough at Dedham we duplicated the victory that we had Won earlier in the season on our home field. While we started off well offensively, registering six runs in the first three innings, we fell apart defensively, al-

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1 ON THE TARGET Captain Dan Sullivan waits for a peg from Mul portunity of sponsoring a Fathers' and Sons' Day , at which Belmont Hill would furnish opposition for our unbeaten nine. The day itself was a perfect one, and our lads lived up to what was expected of them by putting on a peak performance before an enthusiastic gathering. McNabb was desig- nated to throw them up for the Red and Black, and his mates did their best to get him an early lead by filling the bases in the first, but this effort failed to produce a run. In the second, however, Andy McAuliffe hit for the circuit with Collupy and McNabb aboard, to put us in a 3-O lead. Seconds later, Mul duplicated the feat with Sull on the paths, to swell the margin to 5. The count remained unchanged until the fifth when we added another, and then concluded our day's scoring efforts by chalking up single markers in both the seventh and eighth, the last on the wings of Andy's second four-bagger. Belmont's lone register came in the ninth when they put together two of their day's three hits to avoid a shut-out and make the box score read, 8-1. McNabb showed himself master of the sit- uation at all times, giving up only three hits and three walks, while setting up a new high in strike-outs by fanning 20. The Freshman batting sensation, McAuliffe, entrenched himself solidly with our fans by getting 3 hits for 9 bases. After the game, it developed that our victory had cost Coach Murphy three silver dollars in premiums for the circuit clouts of Andy and Mul. Like all good things, the competitive season of 1945 came to an end and we observed the occasion in a fitting manner by over- powering a plucky St. Patrick's of Watertown nine by an ll-1 count. Paul and Bob divided the hurling assignment and both were equally effective, limiting the Watertown batters to two meager hits, although they were rather generous with 10 walks. Having gone score- less for three innings, our lads opened up in the fourth when McAuliffe cleaned the loaded sacks and scored shortly thereafter on Dan Sullivan's bingle. Our opponents countered with a tally in their half of the fifth, but we got it back in the same frame to lead 5-l. The sixth yielded another, the seventh ac- counted for four more, and we called it a day at ll-1 with a final score in the eighth. The batting honors were even between Mul and Andy at three apiece, and they were pressed by Gibby and McNabb who had two to their credit. In the pitching de- partment, McGrath turned in 8 whiffs to BINGLE FOR BULLOCK Myron at his fiercest 1 I