St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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ARROVUS SCORE AGAINST IMMACULATE a note of cautious handling and close cover- ing was struck, and the score see-sawed back and forth constantly. While we led 9-8 at the end of the first period, B.C. High edged us by a single tally in the second, so that the half ended in a 19-19 tie. When the teams returned to the Hoot, the deadlock was extended to 22-22 for the third quarter and, while Bob Kelly single-handed equalled the basket-shooting of Pierce and Tom Mc- Elroy in the fourth stanza, two converted free tries registered by the visitors sent us down to a 31-29 defeat. It was a heart-break- ing margin to lose by, but the closeness of the contest was a definite measuring stick whereby the improvement of the Arrows could be estimated, for the quintet that barely defeated them was practically the same aggregation that had faced them a year before. In the distribution of points, Hugh Bradshaw again led the pack with 9, Bill Carey justified his starting status with 7, Bob Kelly earned 6, Fran Kett came through with 4, and Charlie Hearn registered 3. We returned to the Boston Garden on December 19th to face Immaculate Concep- tion of Revere as part of a schoolboy triple- header, and we had very little trouble vanquishing a club that had very few prac- tice sessions before meeting us. Although Hugh was the only Arrow able to hit the target in the first chapter that ended with us trailing 5-4, he received help from Hearn and Carey in the second and at half time we were out in front, 14-7. From that time on the issue was never in doubt and we maintained the same margin of safety prac- tically for the rest of the game. In our 34-19 triumph, the outstanding star was Bradshaw -I 117 1-

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Kel topped the scoring column with 14 points, McNabb threw in 6, Hugh Bradshaw and Charlie Hearn added 4 apiece, while Andy's 2 came on a swisher from quarter court early in the first period. A week later we inaugurated our home season by entertaining St. Clement's of Somerville in a night contest that lived up to tradition by bringing with it one of the heaviest and earliest snowfalls of the Winter. Frank Kett replaced Bob McNabb in the forward line, but our reserve strength was sparse due to the fact that the storm pre- vented quite a few of the Arrows from reaching the School. Although Hugh Brad- shaw sparked us with two early baskets in the first stanza, the 6-4 lead we had at the end of the period faded away into a 14-10 deficit by half time, principally because of the sharpshooting of Enos and Kerr who scored all the visitors' points between them. Wfhile we proceeded to set up a 7-6 edge Hugh Bradshaw's 12 points made him high man for the night, Charlie Hearn ran second with 6, Bobby Kelly found the range for 4, while Frank Kett and Bill Carey chalked up 2 each. Bill Carey's basket came in the dying minutes of the fray and constituted the dif- ference between a tie and a victory. A game scheduled with St. Columbkille's for the 10th of December had to be called off because the Brighton team was not ready for competition at that time, so our next encounter was with Boston College High School in our own cage. The in-towners had taken us into camp rather handily the year before, but we were convinced that we would make a much better showing this year. In our starting line-up one change was made, Bill Carey having been promoted to work in the defense tandem with Charlie Hearn. Al- most as soon as the opening whistle sounded, in the third period, it left us still trailing and it took a comparatively heavy last chapter to let us pull the game out of the fire, 26-24. Our victory was attributable in no small de- gree tothe fact that the Enos-Kerr combination was completely blanketed in the second half and could not score a point. In the summaries, B. C. HIGH IN POSSESSION -1 me 1- THE ARROXVS TAKE IT DOWN AGAINST B. C HIGH

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who tossed in 19 points, as many as the entire opposing team could muster: of the remaining 15 tallies, 5 went to Hearn, 5 to Bill Carey, 2 each to Kett, Brooks and Collupy, the remaining singleton belonging to Bob Kelly. It was a pleasure to see Captain Hilt Collupy back in action even for a brief minute in the last quarter. As part of the annual Christmaw Party program, Sacred Heart of Newton paid us a visit and obliged by bowing in defeat to the tune of 45-20, a much greater margin than that which gave us our earlier victory over them in the Garden. Our first period harvest of 14 points :set us off on the right foot, for it took all that Hank Barry's lads were capable of to reach that total at half time. Once again, Kel proved that the Newton Centre lads were his meat by rallying 12, although Hugh ran him a close race to Hnish second best with 10. Southpaw Andy found his eye with 6 to nose out Charlie Hearn's 5, while Bill Carey and Frank Kett scored 4 Top: BILL CAREY GIVES A GOOD ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF Bottom I-efr1 LAY-UP BY BRADSHAW Bottom Right: HUGH SCORES AGAIN