St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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REDS 'jlflirulas 28 The annual Red-Blue tilt found jack Cremmen and Bill White respective captains, and the squad's strength equally divided be- tween the two color teams. Entering the contest underdogs, because of Dan Sullivan's absence, the Blues surprised by dominating the play with a superior passing attack that gave them an 18-14 edge at mid-time. The Reds came back fast, however, and, on the strength of S baskets by McNabb, caught and passed their intra-mural foes to secure the victory plaque for'lackCremmen. McNahb's Red 16 and Collupy's Blue 10 constituted the day's best scoring efforts, while Captain Bill White, Art Craig and Ken Quigley bowed out of the St. Sebastian hoop scene with top- notch performances for the lighting Blues. Tallying up the campaign record, we lind that the Red and Black had taken the court 20 times in the most ambitious schedule ever attempted by a School quintet. To the statis- tician's eye the Qwins and 11 defeats might seem a dubious harvest, but to St. Sebastian students it represents a titanic comeback after live consecutive losses in the lirst games of the season Credit, of course, belongs to the patient instruction of Fr. Redding and Mr. Murphy, the inspiring leadership of Captain Dan Sullivan and the indomitable spirit of the team as a whole. The Class of THE CAPTAIN REGISTERS Sull's shot teeters on the rim before swishing through the strings '46 can leave the Hill confident that the court game has proven itself a major sport at St. Sebastiaifs and that Captain-Elect jack Cremmen and his gallant mates will hang up many a victory in the Winter months of '46-'47, INDIVIDUAL SCORES Field Gaultr Foal Slwfis' Tam! Paintf GluYlI!6.f Played lVlcNabb,l.f. . . I 81 27 189 20 Sullivan, r.f. ,. .,. 73 22 168 18 Collupy, c.. . 53 31 137 18 Cremmen, ing. ,. 7 15 13 43 18 O'Leary, l.g. ..., 8 1 17 10 Harwood, l.g. . . , 6 2 14 16

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awed. fra' J N ess mf S 1' THE DIAMOND sport was late getting under way during our first spring at St. Sebastian's. To begin with, Easter made a belated appearance and, while we normally would have had the Baseball candidates practicing in the cage, the oil conservation program closed that avenue of approach in the interests of the war effort. However, late in April, Coach Ted Duffy led his hopefuls outdoors and ran an appraising eye over veteran and new material alike. The season before had marked Red and Black entry into bat-and-ball competition and the three wins and two losses that resulted had been satis- factory to the School at large. Although he did not say so, our 1943 Freshman class must have been disappointing to Mr. Duffy, for it did not take long for him to discover that he would have to rely chiefly on the veterans of the previous year. He did, indeed, have two new Sophomore prospects in Dan O'Brien and George Gilbert, but we Freshmen could only produce Joe Murphy. Preliminary practice over with, St. Sebastian's fielded a team that lined up as follows: Charlie McCarron behind the plate and Bob Baker on the mound, the infield, reading clockwise, was made up ofjimmy Collins, Hank Barry, Dan O'Brien and Joe O'Connell, in the garden the ball-hawks were George Gilbert, Richie Donahue and Frank Dailey. It can hardly be said that the laurels gained by this aggregation of enthusiasts were cum- bersome, because, in six starts, only two wins and one tie balanced our three losses. The Brooklir1ej.V.'s were our first opponents and they buried us under an avalanche of hits that added up to a 15-3 tally. We did succeed, however, in subduing Rivers School, but it took an important Hank Barry triple and two hits by McCarror1 to give us a 5-4 edge. In our next appearance we were humbled 7-1 by the Noble and Greenough J.V.'s, and our weakness with the stick was only too apparent. Next in order was a visit from the neighboring Presentation team and they were good enough neighbors to allow us to take a 5-3 verdict. We could not stand prosperity, however, for our fifth game saw us bow to Angel Guardian by a 5-4 count. A tie resulted when we were hosts to St. John's of Wellesley in the season's finale, for neither side was able to break the 5-5 deadlock. Within our own ranks, we saw Hank Barry's Reds victorious over Dan O'Brien's Blues by margins of 7-1 and 8-7 and we watched with bated breath as our reverend professors formed a Faculty team that nosed out the Varsity by an 8-7 hair. Thus the 1943 campaign came to an end without adding too much glory to our banners, but We were hopeful that future years would bring a more desirable harvest. Our Sophomore Spring inaugurated several changes in the Red and Black baseball scene. To begin with, the Varsity had a new coach in Mr. Murphy and while we had seen him in action in Football, Hockey and Basketball, rumor had it that the diamond pastime was his specialty. On the first of March the cage opened its spacious arms to ambitious candidates and for the first time we heard the crack of bat against ball indoors. At about the same time we noticed that a Steamroller had been brought in to level off the Varsity diamond, and that the backstop had been moved so that circuit clouts would be beamed away from the School, instead of