St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

Page 126 text:

straight game Brooks was our chief basketeer with 14 points, Kett rated second with ll, Carey dropped in 4, Charlie Hearn was good for 3, while Bradshaw, McAuliffe and Shea accounted for 2 each. Two more games were played before we notched another victory, the defeats being administered by South Kingstown High and Newman Preparatory School. The South Kingstown affair was a Garden contest played on the afternoon of the Holy Cross-Rhode Island State classic and the whole student body was allowed to witness the game on the feast of St. Sebastian. On the whole it proved to be a rather colorless engagement even though we led with an anaemic 10-6 edge at the half, for we could garner only 5 meager points during the last two periods while the Rhode Island boys went on a mild spree, racking up 17 to pull out a 23-15 win. Charlie Hearn and Bill Brooks shared the top billing with 4 points, Hilt Collupy had credit for 3, while Hugh Bradshaw and Frank Kett each had 2 markers beside their names. Facing Newman Prep we were the decided underdog, for the Boston school had a galaxy of former high school stars and had been making plenty of trouble for college Freshman teams. The game in our cage was not many minutes old when the visitors had given suliicient display of their talents to hang up a comfortable lead and to convince spectators that they were an un- usually fine prep school quintet. In the second half they were magnanimous enough to use their second string players and against them we held our own fairly well. At the final whistle, the scoreboard showed a 55-26 triumph for Newman, but it was no disgrace to be beaten by such a talented five. Our scoring was divided in this fashion: Brooks 9, Collupy and Bradshaw 6, Kett 4 and Hearn 1. Bottom: TIE JUMP TODI KEL UP Cenlre: HUGH LEAPS

Page 125 text:

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-

Page 127 text:

For the return match with Middlesex on the Concord court, we were stronger than we had been for the first contest because our invalids were now ready for duty once again. Playing on the newly installed macadam court under a glass roof, we put on one of our most consistent exhibitions of the season and, even though we trailed the home team 1 1-9 at the end of the first quarter, a big second period gave us a lead of 24-22 at the half. Two quick goals by Stodghill erased that, however, as soon as play was resumed and it was only Charlie Hearn's capture of his own rebound that permitted us to go out in front again on the last play of the third stanza. From there in we were never headed and in the last frame We doubled the Middlesex tallies to emerge a 42-35 victor. Although he did not start the game, Bob Kelly made good use of his op- portunities to garner 13 points and surpass Bill Brooks' 10. Frank Kett and Charlie Hearn contributed 6 each to top Hugh Bradshaw's 4 and Hilt Collupy's 5. 1 souTH QNGS OWN 1N QONTROL fl 123 lf BATTLE FOR POSSESSION