St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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CAUGHT OFF BASE HILT TRIES TO SCRAMBLE BACK credited to Kel, Andy, Gibby and Grogan. On May 10th a new athletic relationship was established by St. Sebastian's when we entertained Hopkins Country Day School of New Haven, Connecticut. The day proved warm and clear, for a change, and the two teams responded by putting on a nip and tuck battle that was not decided until the final out was made. In the opening inning each nine scored three times, the visitors markers being due to two walks, an error and a long single, while our tallies came as the result of three real hits by Kelly, Gibbons and Lane, aided by an unexpected bobble by the center- fielder. After that slam-bang opening round, both sides settled down to a fine brand of baseball that racked up a long succession of goose-eggs against each club. The Connecticut lads were the first to break the spell in the top half of the seventh when they batted around and chalked up four big runs. In that explosion Andy was reached for two singles and a double that were interspersed between a walk, the hitting of two batsmen and a costly wild heave on an attempted sacrifice. Undaunted by this drastic change in the otherwise pleasant afternoon, johnny Ellard followed Kelis single in the last half with the longest hit of his career-a mighty home run that carried to the J.V. backstop in deepest left field. Fish Collupy blasted the Hopkins twirler off the mound when he singled to continue the attack, but, although he worked his way to third on a wild pitch and a passed ball, he was thrown out at the plate on a nice play by the visiting third baseman. Still in there battling to even the count, Ellard drove across Ed Quirk, who had walked and stole, to make it 7-6 in the eighth, but, in the ninth, our last ditch attempt was nipped when Andy, who had pilfered second, was thrown out streaking for third. Despite the verdict against us, we had put on our best slugging demonstration of the year, racking up 10 blows for a total of 14 bases, johnny Ellard leading the assault with a round-tripper and two singles. Kel, Gibby and Lane were credited with two safeties each, Bill's brace including a double, while Fish was the manufacturer of the other bingle. On the other hand, Andy had re- stricted the foe to six blows and his thirteen K's constituted a remarkable feat. The very next day we were in action again, this time against Lawrence Central Catholic in their own bailiwick. Dick Griffin was nominated to pitch on this occasion but two deadly errors behind him and three basehits 139 1-

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thc day. Three frames later, the same diminu- tive slugger came up with Quirk and Mc- Goldrick on third and second as the result of two walks and a passed ball, and he laced a neat single to center that scored the two runners with ease. Our final counter was a real gift from the foe, for Jim Grogan strolled and then stole and, when the key- stone guardian failed to cover his catcher's peg, the ball went all the way to centerfield, permitting jim to amble all the way around. In the meantime Andy McAuliffe was having a great day on the mound, getting rid of the first eleven men to face him before being reached for a safety that was soon discounted by a Collupy-Kelly-Gibbons double play. Only in the sixth did his control falter tem- porarily when he walked three men, two of whom scored later on an error and an infield out. Although Coyle tallied once more in the eighth on a two-base wild heave, it was with- out the semblance of a hit, for McAuliffe did not yield another bingle until the ninth and that proved harmless when the next three men went down in order. Ten visitors whified the breezes and only two balls were hit to the outfield besides the two singles that constituted the Taunton nine's attack. On the other hand our offensive was rather weak, for Kel, Gibby and Andy were the only players able to solve the Coyle twirlers' delivery and their safeties were held to singles. It was more than a week before we were able to play another game because the miser- able weather, which had caused cancellation of games with Middlesex and Lawrence Central Catholic earlier in the season, also washed out our May 2nd contest with Malden Catholic. When we arrived at St. Mark's on May 8th, snow flurries greeted us and made us wonder whether we should head for the Hockey rink instead of the diamond. In the absence of Coach Murphy, Fr. Flanigan started Henry Lane at third and, to cope with the temporary injury of Hilt Collupy, sent George McGold- rick to the shortfleld. The rival pitchers showed the effect of the raw cold day in the opening frame, giving up two walks apiece, and setting up a run in each instance. St. Mark's broke the tie in the second with two markers on only one bingle, but we came back on even terms in the third, thanks to timely line drives by Kel and Johnny Ellard. In their half of the fourth, however, the home team took advantage of Andy's wildness to insert sharp singles at the most appropriate intervals and hang up four more runs. Our best rejoinder was two scores in the fifth on solid hits by Ellard, Gibby and Grogan, and, when Andy's wing succumbed to the cold in the same frame, jimmy Cotter was forced to take the mound with very little warm-up preparation. With the Southborough nine leading 11-5 it was decided to call the game in the seventh and the premature ending was most satisfactory to all concerned. About the only consolation that could be gleamed from the day was the fact that the weather did not impair our batting, eight hits rattling off our war-clubs with Ellard and Quirk accounting for two each. The remaining four were SOUTHPAW ACE, ANDY MCAULIFFE -I 138 I-

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Mcf OLDRICK OUT AT FIRST caused his exodus with a 3-0 deficit before the side was retired in the first. At that point, jim Cotter came in to put out the fire tem- porarily, although the home team found him for a single score in the third and three additional tallies in the fourth. Up until the fifth, it seemed as if we had done all our hitting the day before against Hopkins and had no dynamite left, but in that frame the Central hurler went up in the air and forced across a run with four consecutive passes. Finding the bases still loaded, Henry Lane drove Kelly and Ellard in with a clean single to left, and then scored on Gibby's heels when Ed Quirk propelled a screaming triple to the same sector. We pulled closer to Lawrence in the sixth when Hilt Collupy singled with two down and then ran wild on the bases, scoring when Abdulla let the catcher's peg go through him at third. Once again there were two out when we started an attack in the ninth. After Ellard had singled and Gibby had doubled him to third, Andy McAuliffe, who had taken over the hurling chores in the fifth, knocked in two runs with a vicious single to right that put us in front, 8-7. In the last half, Andy disposed of the DEPENDABLE SLUGGER JOHN ELLARD KEL RUNS IT OUT O DONOGHUE LAYS ONE DOWN KEL TAKES A CUT -I 140 1-