St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Biddle was erased as he tried to stretch a double into a triple. In our half of the fifth we took advantage of three miscues on the part of our foes to score twice when Collupy and Gibbons came through with clutch singles. After that, our attack lay dormant and Cambridge pulled away from us with a two-run seventh and a three-run eighth that brought the final margin to 8-2. Only three visiting batters were able to hit Andy safely for a total of five blows, but our fielding was ragged at times and walks also contrib- uted to our downfall. While we achieved the same number of hits, they were scattered for the most part and did not produce scores. To bring the 1947 season to a close, the annual Red-Blue game was played on June 4th with Frank O'Donoghue and Ed Quirk the respective captains. The Reds got off on the right foot with two runs off Dick Grifiin in the second, but the Blues tied it up with a brace of scores in the fourth off Jim Grogan, making his mound debut. This must have nettled the Reds because they came in for their fifth and went to town for three reg- isters made possible by a lead-off single by Frank Kett and a clean-up double by Bill Gibbons. Not to be outdone, however, the Blues roared back to take the lead for the first time by sending four runners across the plate and forging ahead 6-5. Almost imme- diately the lead changed hands again when Frank O'Donoghue drove in two runs in the top half of the sixth and set up a 7-6 Red edge. In the last of the seventh, Ed Quirk drove in john Ellard with the tieing tally and Larry McAuliffe followed with a Herculean homer that broke the game open, for from that point the Blues were never headed and they coasted to an 11-7 win. The chief slugger of the day was Bill Gibbons with two singles and a double which topped Joe Shea's three singles and Larry McAuliffe's round tripper and singleton. The triumph brought Ed Quirk the right to hang his Blue plaque after three years of Baseball service in St. Sebastian spangles. 95 COUN P .D HS-r 5 tk Q4-Q 'v MASSAGX -I TP at ..... ag I ff M K AN-.li f' Q . I r- Ql fs- E 4' ga' h Us 1. . 056 144 1-

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batters in three innings, our southpaw twirler was not ruffled when the Prep's Gorman led off with a double in the fourth, for he forced Lovejoy to ground slowly to the infield. A two base wild heave on the play, however, let the run score and gave the Prep the lead. In the sixth, more trouble developed when McAuliffe issued his third pass of the day and it was followed by a single to right center, sending the runner to third. A neat squeeze was then in order and it brought across the tally that made it 2-0. Tiring in the ninth, Andy forced across Downey with a final marker that ended the day's scoring at 3-0. From the other point of view, our batting eyes were still off and four singles, two by Ellard and one each by Gibbons and Lane, constituted the sum total of our offen- sive. Eight runners were left stranded on the base paths for want of a timely blow that might have changed the complexion of the game. Of the four hits collected off Andy, one was a triple by Dube with one down in the seventh, yet he expired on the paths when our moundsman turned on steam to fan the next two batters. Memorial Day brought us a visit from another Connecticut private school, Kings- wood Country Day of West Hartford, and just to prove that his performance against St. John's Prep was no accident, McAuliffe turned in another gilt-edged piece of twirl- ing, fanning 16 and giving up only 4 hits. After a double play had prevented us from registering in the second, we pushed across two runs in the third. Wfith one down, Bob Kelly lined a drive into left and advanced to second when Hilt Collupy was hit by a pitch. A walk to Ellard filled the bases and en- couraged Bill Gibbons to lash out a hot single that scored two tallies and allowed Gibby to take second on the throw to the plate. Henry Lane followed with a sizzling smash back at the pitcher, but it was caught in self-defense by the twirler and Ellard was doubled at third. Two innings later, Kel reached again, this time on an error, and, after allowing Bob time to steal, Ellard singled him in with our third run. For the second successive time, -1 143 Lane drove out a hard smash that was con- verted into a double play by the shortstop's fancy fielding to thwart any further scoring. To begin our sixth, McAuliffe doubled over the bank in right field and by some fancy footwork kept the pitcher in suspense on Quirk's sacrifice so that Ed also reached safely. This piece of luck was nullified, how- ever, when McNabb, batting for O'Donoghue and intending to bunt, popped up to the pitcher and Andy was doubled. With two down, Quirkie stole second and McGoldrick hammered him in with a well-stroked double and scored later on a Collupy single to give us our fifth run. Good base running meant a final tally in the seventh when Lane stole after getting a free ticket, continued to third on an infield miscue and rode in on the wings of a Quirk single. In the meantime, Andy was having one of his better days, allowing only one man to reach in the first four innings although he ran into a bit of a squall in the fifth. Two batters hit safely in that stanza and two walked - a combination which resulted in two scores when some loose ball-handling developed. The 6-2 final result was satisfactory enough, especially in view of the fact that we poled out 10 hits, with every player hitting safely except O'Don- oghue and his replacement, McNabb. A game originally scheduled with Cam- bridge High and Latin for May 21st had to be postponed because of rain, and it was played off june 2nd on our home diamond. The early innings saw us frittering away golden opportunities and leaving men stranded on the paths. We came closest to scoring in the third when, after Ellard had walked and stolen, Andy singled hard to rightg the fielder played the drive perfectly, however, and gunned johnny out at the plate with a beautiful peg. Up until the fifth, the visitors had succeeded in getting only one hit off Andy, but he ran into trouble in that frame when a single and double, helped along by two walks and an infield boot, added up to three big runs. At that, we were fortunate to escape so lightly, for Donahue was out on an attempt to steal home and I- 1

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April May june BASEBALL SUMMARY - 1947 Coach-VINCENT C. MURPHY Captain-ROBERT MCNABB '48 Acting Captain-WILLIAM P. GIBBONS '49 lllanager-JOHN P. BOLES '47 SCHEDULE St. Seb. 14 Brookline High .... . . . 0 16 Middlesex School .... . Rain 18 Browne and Nichols ..... . . . 9 23 Thayer Academy ........... . . . 5 25 Lawrence Central Catholic . . . . Rain 29 Coyle High ............... . . . 4 2 Malden Catholic . . . Rain 7 St. Mark's ............ . . . 5 10 Hopkins Country Day .... . . . 6 11 Lawrence Central Catholic . . . . . 8 14 Belmont Hill .......,.. . . . 3 16 Brookline High .... . . . 4 24 Phillips Exeter ...... . . . 0 27 St. John's Prep ...,.... . . . 0 30 Kingswood Country Day A... , , , 6 2 Cambridge High and Latin ...................... 2 Blues fEd Quirk, Captainj 11, Reds fFrank O'Donoghue, Captainj 7 AWARDS JACKETS LETTERS Robert McNabb Willian1 Gibbons John Boles John Ellard Edward Quirk Andrew McAuliffe Henry Lane james Grogan Hilton Collupy Robert Kelly xg, courmb, -,-rw-fl, +5 s . .I 1 47 Q L 1' Francis O'Donoghue Joseph Ford Richard Grillin Lawrence McAuliffe Francis Kett George McGoldrick Wallace MacKinnon James Cotter p-ff' f- 5 . . . . A S lg, I 7 QYMASSAGX -I 145 1-