St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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-

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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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J. V. HOOPSTERS Slumliug: Father Flanigan, Malone, Downey, Cochran, Hurley, Coach Murphy Sealed: Giblin, Schiffman, Canning, Donnelly, Collupy, Keefc, Shea. 5 coulvr in-. ' QP 69 4 X90 .l A ' '-Q. li i + 0 + I i-1- f-- I fi A' ' f fo 4, S8 '41AssA0 ' -I l-46 I-