St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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CAPABLE BACKSTOP, JACK BOYLE only twice in the fray. Our two bingles came off the bats of Collupy and Gibbons in the fourth, but fast fielding prevented Fish from scoring on Bill's double. In tribute to the opposing moundsman, it must be noted that his control was perfect until he tired in the final frame and walked Kel and Hilt. There was one out when they reached, however, and Lee turned on steam to fan Ellard and force Gibby to line out to the first sacker. As the team left the field it was sure of one thing at least-that it had a pitcher, for Andy's 10 strikeouts was a notable achieve- ment against a team of Brookline's stature, and his principal victim had been the for- midable Misho, the highly-regarded first baseman, who whiffed three times. April 18th was a bitter cold day that was more like November than April, but we made the short trip to Cambridge to engage Browne and Nichols. Using the same line-up that had faced Brookline, we forged into a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Jim Grogan lashed out our first hit of the day after Gibby had -1 134 walked and Andy had reached on a two base error. Two frames later the home team tied it up when they produced their best blows of the game, a Tofias double and a Waite triple that was followed by a bobble in our infield. Although Bob Kelly led off with a hard double in the fifth, DiPesa, the B 8: N hurler, bore down to keep our second sacker from advancing. In the seventh the Cam- bridge lads touched up Andy for three con- secutive singles that brought in a run, but, with the bases loaded and no one out, the St. Sebastian southpaw pitched himself out of the hole without further damage. Trailing 5-2 at that point, we came in from the field to bat around and register six tallies that sewed up the contest in our favor. Although this outbreak was made possible by the loose play of the opposition, Andy, Ed Quirk and Kel were opportunists enough to come through with telling blows at the appropriate times to give us an 8-3 margin. Each team added one more marker before the game ended, our tally being scored by Bill Gibbons who started off our ninth with a screaming double. When the totals were tabulated, they revealed that we had been outhit 9-7, but McAuliffe had managed to scatter the enemy's bingles to such an extent that they did only a minimum of damage. In addition he chalked up 9 more strikeout victims and kept the ball on the ground so consistently that Bill Gibbons had a busy afternoon taking care of 15 chances. The following Wednesday found us play- ing our first Baseball contest at Thayer Academy in Braintree and the game proved to be one of the most interesting of the season. Living up to its tradition of producing fine diamond teams, the home nine jolted us right at the start when their lead-off man, Gerrish, poled a lengthy triple to deep center. That he did not die on third, however, was no fault of Andy's, for our rookie boxman fanned the side even though the run trickled in on an infield error. In the second inning, jim Grogan raised our hopes by blasting out a long double to the tennis courts in deep

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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-

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