St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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BREAKING DOWN THE FENCES Lefty Ed Quirk polls out a long one. 6-3. Adverse weather conditions caused the length of the contest to be curtailed, but that did not prevent the tilt from exhibit- ing the unusual features expected in such a meeting. Paul McGrath and Andy Mc- Auliffe opposed each other on the mound, and Andy was the first to weaken, yielding up two tallies on a wild pitch and its conse- quences in the second. In their half, the Blues came back with one and scored on a passed ball, just to be different. Desperate to even the count, Blue Ed Quirk ventured a steal of home in the third but Ellard had the pellet waiting for him. Doyle's tally in the fourth and Deignan's in the fifth stung the Blues into a two-run retaliation but it was their last threat and later scores by Doyle and McGrath opened up the Red margin and made their final victory, 6-3. With vic- tory in the palm of his hand, Paul McGrath had to leave the rubber in the seventh be- cause of an arm injury, but Henry Lane changed places with him to come in and trap Quirk off third to end the civil strife. Thus the 1946 Baseball season passed into History and the 13 victories in 15 games did much to increase the athletic prestige of St. Sebastian's. The Boston newspapers were visibly impressed and Fred Foye, john Aherne and Ernest Dalton took pains to eu- logize our success in their respective col- umns. Looking back on the season now, we can safely say that the schedule attempted was far from being an easy one and the fact that we survived it in such creditable fash- ion is in itself a tribute to the work of Coach Murphy and the indomitable courage of the boys who carried the School's colors into battle. SACRED HEART'S CONQUEROR Dick Griffin burns one over. FAITHFUL JOE Joe Ford warms up McNabb be- fore the Malden Catholic game.

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The Athletic Di- rector starts off the Red-Blue game. FIRST BALL was no more of a contest than the first tilt had been. In the home half of the first frame, it looked as if it would be a costly game for us, because McNabb, playing in left field for the occasion, crashed into and over a stone playground bench while fad- ing back for a f'ly ball. Henry Lane started for us on the mound against his fellow townsmen and had no difficulty in holding them at bay, while his mates were piling up a 19-2 margin. After the first inning panic caused by McNabb's injury, Sacred Heart was unable to cross the rubber, while we treated a variety of hurlers impartially, especially in the fifth when we tallied twelve times. The measure of Lane's ef- fectiveness was indicated by the fact that he limited the opposition to four hits and fanned 12 in the seven-inning engagement. The fact that they hadn't seen everything up to that time, was demonstrated to a Fathers and Sons Day gathering on june 3rd, when jack Mulhern took off mask and protector to toe the mound and defeat St. Columbkille's 4-2 in the season's finale. With a line-up that had to be revamped be- cause of injuries, we still had enough power to edge the near-by parishioners as Quirk, Lane and Bullock filled in for the missing regulars. Andy McAuliffe,s first inning single gave Mul a l-0 lead, but the visitors took over in the second and assumed a 2-l advantage on three well-placed singles. In the third, however, Ed Quirk lashed a single to center with two down, and Dick Doyle and jack Boyle crossed the plate to make it 3-2 in our favor. Our final marker came in the sixth when jack Boyle set a new speed record for traveling between third and home and was declared safe when the catch- er dropped an infielder's throw. When the official scorer had tabulated his figures, it was easily seen that Mul had turned in a creditable performance, scattering five hits so that he was in no trouble after the sec- ond, and fanning I0 enemy batsmen. Eddie Quirk won top billing as slugger of the day with 3 out of 3, one of them a double. In the fielding department, a sharp double play, Doyle to Sullivan to McAuliffe, snuffed out a mild St. Columbkille threat to end the visitors' seventh. The season could not be considered en- tirely finished until the Reds and Blues en- gaged in their annual battle, and Paul Mc- Grath's Reds topped john Ellard's Blues,

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April 16 SHOWING THE WAY Captain Danny Sullivan registers against Malden Catholic. BASEBALL SUMMARY-1946 C ouch-VINCENT C. Mun PHY Captain-DANIEL E. SULLIVAN '46 Manager-R. MICHAEL BARRBTTE '46 SCHEDULE Browne and Nichols .LLL,L.,,.,..L,,..,.,,,L 17 Middlesex School LLLL,LL, 24 Phillips Exeter ,. 29 Malden Catholic .i.,iL May 1 Boston Commerce ,L 4 Groton School ....,. , 7 Huntington School St. Seb. Opp. 19 3 17 1 5 4 0 2 . 10 3 5 0 , ..., . 12 2 8 Thayer Academy ..L. L,LL,,,,,, .....V,v 9 2 10 Sacred Heart of Newton LL,L,,L .,L,,V. 2 3 2 15 Belmont Hill ,,,L,,,i,. ,LL.,L,L, L Rain 17 Lawrence Catholic ..w. . L,M. Rain 20 Malden Catholic 6 5 22 St. Mark's ,LL..,...,,.. 6 8 25 Cranwell Prep ........ ..., 16 8 29 Roxbury Latin ,L.,,LLL,..,.L, LLLLLL L 31 3 31 Sacred Heart of Newton L,,,,,, LLL,L 1 9 2 June 3 St. Columbkilleis ,,,LLLL,,i,,L,,,,,,,,,,,.... ..,., ......... ...LLLLLLLLLLLL 4 2 5 St. Mary's of Waltham ....,.............V..,,,L,,,ev,,1i..,.1.,,....,. Rain Reds CPaul McGrath, Captain? 6, Blues U0 Daniel Sullivan Paul McGrath Richard Doyle William Gibbons Arthur Craig joseph Ford john Boles LETTER AWARDS Robert McNabb Andrew McAuliffe John Boyle Henry Lane Richard Griffin Francis O'Donoghue John Kirk hn Ellard, Captainl 3 john Mulhern Hilton Collupy john Ellard Myron Bullock Edward Quirk R. M. Barrette Richard Killion