St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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1946 BASEBALL TEAM Seated, left to right: McAuliffe, Ellard, Mulhern, Captain Dan Sullivan, McNabb Doyle, Boyle. Standing: Father Flanigan, Manager Kirk, Quirk, Griffin, McGrath, Lane Manager Boles, Coach Murphy.

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BASKETBALL SUMMARY-1946-47 Coach-VINCENT C. MURPHX' Cdflldill-JOHN CREMMEN '47 Manager-JOHN KEHOE '47 ' 1 SCHEDULE U St. Seb. Opp December 6 Our Lady's of Newton 22 28 10 St. Columbkille's 1 33 26 15 St. Clement's 54 29 17 St. Mary's of Waltham 14 47 20 Boston College High School 24 -H 29 Lawrence Central Catholic 25 59 january 8 Belmont Hill , , 7 , ,L 51 27 10 Immaculate Conception CRevereJ L , 20 19 15 Sacred Heart of Newton 2 , 27 58 21 South Kingstown, R. I. 24 54 24 St. Columbkille's ,, , 54 19 29 Cathedral CBostonJ S 21 52 February 1 St. Mark's ttt,t,,, ,,., , or 31 28 7 Cambridge High and Latin 7, 28 49 11 St. Charles of Waltham , H , 35 47 20 Coyle High School 1 30 54 23 Our Lady's of Newton , , 26 39 26 Sacred Heart of Newton , t...,,, r2tttr,.............. . ., 35 57 March 4 Thayer Academy 1 ,. , 2 26 48 Reds fWilliam Harwood, Captain! 31, Blues CI-Iilton Collupy, Captain? 24 JACKETS John Cremmen William Harwood Robert McNabb Hilton Collupy Robert Kelly joseph Shea Collupy Kelly 7 Cremmen Shea McNabb Harwood AWARDS LETTERS john Ellard Richard Watson Andrew McAuliFfe Hugh Bradshaw Thomas Hartnett Francis Kett james Hefler john Kehoe LEADING SCORERS , , ,tt., ,,t.. ,, 167 77 71 70 60 , 55 TOUGH ANGLE McNabb's shot fails to register.

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AMAA E Q X3 it T is hard to say just when Baseball begins at Saint Sebastian's, because, long be- fore Spring has conquered Winter, devotees of the national pastime rush the diamond season by using the cage to limber up their wings and train their batting eyes. They are, it seems, impatient of Basketball's long tenure, for, once the court game begins to wane, pepper groups appear on the side- lines, ready to swarm all over the peat floor as soon as the final basket has been made or missed. Early in March the indoor, pre-sea- son workouts are in full swing with bat- terymen, fielders and batters receiving care- ful attention in turn. The School at large looked forward quite optimistically to the diamond season of 1946, for the preceding year had produced a notable team that rolled up nine consecu- tive victories in as many starts. Only two regulars on that undefeated team had been lost by graduation fHank Barry and Dan O'BrienD, so we had good reason to think that the omens were propitious. The fact that a Football injury would keep Benny Pickard from playing was a bad blow, but we felt that, with a year of experience be- hind him, Bob McNabb would be that much more effective and thus neutralize the loss of Pickard's talents. After weeks of practice in the cage and a few outdoor workouts, the Arrows made their debut against Browne and Nichols on St. Sebastian Field. As they took the field to face the visitors, Paul McGrath and jack Mulhern composed the battery, Andy Mc- Auliffe was at first, and Captain Dan Sul- livan held down the key-stone sack. A pair of Sophomores covered the left side of the infield, Dick Doyle at third and Hilton Col- lupy at short, while Ed Quirk, Bill Gibbons and johnny Ellard patrolled the garden from left to right. When it turned out that we were not to have too much opposition from the Cambridge lads, Coach Murphy had an opportunity of inserting promising substitutes like jack Boyle, Bob Kelly, Frank Hennessey and Tom Hartnett. Andy McAuliffe showed the visitors what they were in for by poling out a home run as lead-off batter in the very first inning. In the same frame Sul's single followed by Mul's two bagger added another tally. Obligingly enough we went down in order in the second, but the third and fourth yielded four and seven runs respectively to put the game on ice. The four runs came as a result of Gibby's round-tripper with the bases loaded, while the seven run up- rising was featured by timely doubles on the part of Collupy and Ellard. Meanwhile, Paul McGrath had been very effective, in the course of the afternoon the visitors were able to garner only five bingles and collect four walks to piece together three runs. When we picked up another tally in the fifth and five more in the sixth, it was de- cided to abbreviate the contest to seven in- nings, at the end of which we had a 19-3 verdict. Our second game was a repetition of the easy victory just recorded. journeying to Concord, we took on Middlesex School with whom we had waged an epic battle the year before to gain a 3-2 decision. Bob McNabb toed the mound and unfurled the second no-hitter in St. Sebastian's athletic history, the first having been pitched by the