St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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to finish in front of Joe Shea's 2. Much to the relief of the coaches, frequent substitu- tion was possible and Fran Downey, Dick Collupy and Dick Schiffman made their first appearance in the Varsity ranks. When hoop activities were resumed after Christmas, Bob Kelly was conspicuous by his absence due to a siege of flu and Hugh Bradshaw was temporarily hors de combat with an injured hand. Hence we were not at full strength when we lined up against Christopher Columbus to play the first athletic contest ever engaged in by the two schools. Hilt Collupy, however, was well enough to fill in for Bradshaw and Bill Brooks was given the chance to take over Kel's forward post. Auspiciously enough, Hearn scored on a pass from Kett after the tap and, when Brooksie came through with a lay-up shortly after, we thought that it would be a very pleasant afternoon. The 1 BOB HOGARTY Assistant Coach of Basketball -L 120 1- r-. E , . 1'9 VINCENT C. MURPHY Coach of All Sports North Enders had different plans, it seemed, and, after trailing 9-5 and 15-9 for the first two periods, they put on a Hurry of scores in the third that cut our lead to 25-20, despite Fran Kett's three beautiful baskets. In the last minute they were still pressing hard and had reduced the margin to 27-25 when a long pass to Tom Hartnett permitted him to drop in a safety score that gave us the verdict of 29-25. Our points were rather evenly distributed, Charlie Hearn's 7 making him top scorer for the first time and per- mitting him to rank over Kett, Brooks and Collupy who had 6 each. Tom Hartnett and Andy McAuliffe could claim only two points apiece, but they played an important part in the result. On Wednesday, the 14th of January, Middlesex School came down from Concord

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to match baskets and give us a close contest. Once again we scored on the opening tap, Bill Brooks doing the honors, but we missed the experience of Kel, Hugh and Hilt, the last-named out of action with a cold. Tom Hartnett jumped at the center spot and when Bradshaw saw service it was in a guard's role. Despite the .fact that we drew first blood, the visitors drew ahead in the first period on the marksmanship of Stodghill and Ellis and, although we matched their five points in the second, the half found us trailing, 16-11. In the third, however, we cut 3 points from their lead to make it 24-22 and then in the final frame we pulled out all the stops to hang up 10 points while holding Middlesex scoreless. For the first time in his Arrow career, Bill Brooks paced our efforts with 12 tallies to head off Frank Kett's bid of 10, while Bradshaw, Hearn and Carey finished up with 5, 3 and 2 respectively. Hugh's real contribution to our victory was tremendous defensive strength, for his ability to clear the backboards turned the tide in our favor as soon as he entered the fray. The schedule called us to Chestnut Hill that same week to engage a Rivers quintet that was certain to provide strong opposition for the Red and Black. During the warm-up period we could see that the small court, ringed round with spectators, would not be in our favor and that a moist floor would make for precarious footing. Hilt Collupy and Bob Kelly were still out of action, but Bill Brooks' showing against Middlesex warranted a starting berth and he responded with a brilliant performance. In keeping with our custom, we bounded out in front on quick baskets by Kett and Brooks, although Hewins and Cronin did the same for Rivers shortly thereafter, so a nip and tuck battle ensued. Although the first stanza gave us an 8-7 edge, the tall, willowy Cronin was the stand-out in the second and the score at the half was evened up at 17 all. We reached our peak in the third frame, however, with Brooksie giving us a beautiful display of set-shooting to hang up 4 baskets and Frank Kett registering a goal even though he was plowed through a door after making his shot. Two free tries were awarded him for such a foul and he proved his true competitive worth by coming through on both of them to give us a single point lead. While that lead changed hands again before the period ended, we inched our way along and had a 6 point margin when the automatic gong sounded. Shortly afterwards, Brooks fouled out of the contest and Rivers applied the pressure to catch and pass us with 1:40 to go. At that point, Bill Carey captured a loose ball to keep us very much in the con- test, but the final whistle announced a 39-38 defeat as Charlie Hearn got off a long shot from mid-court to no avail. For the second GOOD-NATURED PARK -1 121 1-