St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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-

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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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first two batters easily and the game seemed in the bag until an inglorious muff of a fly ball in our outfield permitted McCarthy, who had singled, to race across with the tieing run. just to make the dismal tale complete, after we had wasted a single in the top half of the tenth, Nader, whom Mc- Auliffe had fanned on two previous occasions, tripled to right and was squeezed across to give the home team a 9-8 victory. On the long trip home it seemed as if our cup of woe was brimming over after two one-run defeats in as many days. After these reverses, Fortune smiled on us the following Wednesday when we visited Belmont Hill and came through with a 5-1 triumph in one of the best played games of the season. At game time the umpire assigned had failed to put in an appearance, so Mr. Croke, Faculty Athletic Director of the host school, was prevailed upon to act as arbiter and he proved to be as fine an official as we met all year. While we filled the bases in the first and Ed Quirk tripled to open the second, Nemrow on the Belmont mound had plenty of stuff and was able to bear down in the pinches. After we had wasted a Gibbons single in the third, the home team smashed out their first two singles off Andy in the last half of the same round to score a run and that single marker loomed larger with each passing inning. Finally we broke the long chain of scoreless frames to tie up the contest in the seventh. Lead-off man, Ed Quirk, drew a walk and scampered to second on a passed ball. To push him along, George McGoldrick sacrificed neatly and Frank O'Donoghue, batting for Boyle, squeezed Quirkie in with a beautiful drag bunt that did not permit a play to be made at the plate. Both sides continued to play air-tight ball until Andy opened our ninth with a clean safety to right and then ran the bases wild, unsettling the infield and causing an error that permitted him to score. Shortly thereafter, Quirk walked and adopted the same technique, crossing the plate when the third baseman let the catcher's peg go through to left field. McGoldrick followed with another bingle but it was wasted and -I l4l 1- the game ended with a 3-1 verdict in our favor. Besides breaking the contest wide open, McAuliffe turned in one of his best performances, whifling 16 and giving up only six hits. A return contest with Brookline High at Tech Field found the Wealthy Town aggre- gation as strong as when we met them earlier in the season, although we gave them a bad scare in the opening inning by pushing across three runs. An infield and outfield error followed by a walk made Coach Tom Fitz- gerald derrick his starting pitcher, Robinson, and call in his ace, MacPhee. from left field. With the bases loaded, Quirkie drew a walk to force in our first run and then Hilt Collupy blasted in two more with a single to center and we were in front, 3-0. At that point, MacPhee put the fire out and his rival, Andy, seemed to inherit the lack of control for he walked the first three men to face him in the last half and, by dint of a timely single, the home team proceeded to tie the score. With the teams on equal terms again, Robinson returned to the mound from left field and we were able to solve his slants only in the fourth when we gleaned one run on four bingles, a double play killing off our chances of a big rally. In the meantime, a homer by Hatch with a man on in the third had sent Brookline out in front, and we were never able to catch up again. Three walks followed by a single and a triple gave them a four-run grist in the sixth and by game's end they had amassed a 12-4 advantage. In the box score, the totals gave Brookline 8 hits to our 7, but the difference lay in the T.B. column, our opponents having 14 as against our failure to come up with a single extra-base hit. Once again, Andy's whiffs were notable, 12 victims being added to his ever- lengthening string. The recollection of our breath-taking 5-4 win over Exeter a year before made our trip to New Hampshire all the more enjoyable and we relished the pre-game dinner at Lamie's, just beyond Hampton Beach. As was to be expected, the sight of the athletic lay-