St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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.4A,,,,fN,,1,rr fx t, .W ww f' P W' A MQ 1947 BASEBALL TEAM Shnlzliug: Couch Murphy, Keelzm, Hanron, Grogan, L. McAuliffe, Captain McNabb, Shea, A. McAuliffe, MacKinnon, Cotter, Fr. Flanigan. Kneeling: Kelly, McGoldrick, Quirk, Acting-Captain Gibbons, Lane, Collupy, Ellurd. -I 132 I-

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BASKETBALL SUMMARY - 1947-48 Coach-VINCENT C. MURPHY Assistant Coacb - ROBERT HOGARTY Captain - HILTON COLLUPY '49 Managers--JAMES MALONE '48 and PARK HURLEY '49 SCHEDULE St. Seb. Opp Nov. 28 Sacred Heart of Newton . . . ...- 50 21 Dec. 5 St. Clement's ................... .... 2 6 24 12 Boston College High School ....... .... 2 9 31 19 Immaculate Conception QReverej .... .... 3 4 19 23 Sacred Heart of Newton .......... .... 4 3 20 jan. 8 Christopher Columbus .... .... .... 2 9 25 14 Middlesex School ...... .... 3 2 24 16 Rivers School ........... .... 3 8 39 20 South Kingstown, R. I. . . . . . . . 15 23 28 Newman Prep ....... .... 2 6 55 Feb. 2 Middlesex School .... .... 4 2 35 6 Lawrence Academy . . . .... 34 54 7 St. Mark's .............. .... 4 1 25 9 Walpole High School .... .... 3 7 36 11 Thayer Academy ......... ..,. 3 3 43 13 Our Lady's of Newton . .. .... 40 45 16 New Prep .......,....... .... 4 4 34 18 St. Charles of Waltham ........ .... 3 4 33 21 Hopkins Country Day School . . . .... 15 41 29 Our Ladyis of Newton ...... .... 3 7 30 March 9 Rivers School ................................ 33 31 13 Browne 8: Nichols ........................,... 31 33 Blues fHugh Bradshaw, Captainl 26, Reds QTom Hartnett, Captain, 18 AWARDS JACKETS LETTERS Hugh Bradshaw Charles Hearn William Brooks Francis Kett William Carey Hilton Collupy Thomas Hartnett Robert Kelly Andrew McAuliffe Joseph Shea James Malone Park Hurley LEADING SCORERS Brooks Bradshaw Kett Kelly Hearn Collupy Carey -ll 3 171 124 1 14 108 75 67 30 ll-

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HE diamond season of 1947 dawned most inauspiciously at St. Sebastian's, for the opening of the season found us with- out the services of an experienced pitcher. Graduation had deprived us of Paul McGrath the preceding june and then illness reared its ugly head to keep Bob McNabb out of School for the greater part of the year and remove him from any sports' participation. While the hurling situation was his chief problem, Coach Vin Murphy had other wor- ries to cope with-the loss of a superlative catcher, Jack Mulhern, second and third base vacancies that had to be filled, and as stiff a schedule as any private school nine could face. When the pre-season practices began in the cage, Vin devoted much of his time and attention to converting Andy McAuliffe, southpaw first baseman, into a moundsman and he selected as his battery mate john Ellard who had patrolled the Red and Black outfield in 1946. As it gradually became evi- dent that the battery situation was well in hand, the coach called for infield candidates and screened them thoroughly for successors to '46 Captain Dan Sullivan and Dick Doyle. Two Sophomores, Bob Kelly and Frank Kett, proved to be the most likely prospects, al- though Kett had ample competition from Senior Frank O'Donoghue for a regular hot corner berth. Because of the transfer of McAuliffe to the mound, a new guardian had to be found for the initial sack and by the time the squad moved outdoors it was evident that Billy Gibbons had staked a real claim to the post. Although the 1946 outfield had reported again intact, the necessary shifting of Gibby and Johnny Ellard to other duties had left Ed Quirk as the only veteran gardener and gave Larry McAuliffe, jim Grogan, jack Boyle, Dave Hanron and Bob Murphy a chance to break into the line-up. By the time that the season was well underway, Grogan and McAuliffe had earned the right to con- sider themselves regulars and they became fixtures in the St. Sebastian outfield. In the midst of such great competition for new berths, Hilton Collupy alone remained in his post of the previous year for no candidate was able to dislodge him from the shortfield. It was against a strong Brookline High nine that the 1947 Red and Black team made its debut and was forced to accept a decisive 9-0 defeat. Starting his first game in the box, Andy McAuliffe put down the first three batters without letting a ball go out of the infield, but a lengthy triple by the lead-off man in the second unsettled him to such a degree that he walked four men in the frame and yielded another three-bagger and a Haskell home-run that gave the Wealthy Towners six runs and really Put the game on ice. For the rest of the fray they had to be content with four hits, only two of which came in the same inning, but three St. Sebastian errors helped the visitors to garner three more tallies that were scattered over the third, fourth and ninth innings. In the meantime, the Brookline hurler, Lee, had proved almost a complete puzzle to our sluggers and they were able to hit him safely I -I 133 1-