St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Brooksie came through with his second safety in the fourth, but we were forced to wait until the fifth to add to our slender lead. To open that chapter, Kel and Fish walked and all hands were safe when Kel beat the throw to third on Andy's third-strike sacrifice. Refusing to bite for bad balls, Henry Lane walked to force in Keland, when Gibby gave the hot corner guardian a hard chance, Fish scored and Andy was just nipped at the plate by the first sacker's peg home, Our final run came in the stretch half of the seventh on the wings of a Gibbons single that scored Fish who had walked, gone to second on Andy's sacrifice, and teased the pitcher into a bad throw that let him scamper to third. Meanwhile, our Thin Man had been master of the situation from the fifth on and he yielded only one walk and one single to the last sixteen men who faced him. In every department he managed to shade his mound rival, allowing 4 hits to Freemans 5, walking 4 to Fritz' 6, and whifiing 14 to his opponent's 11, His 5-1 triumph was well deserved and it did much to the laurels of the 1948 St. Sebastian nine, In their newly assumed role of giant-killers, the Arrows traveled to Exeter, N, H., on Saturday, May 29th, to meet the Phillips Exeter nine in a contest that was a featured event on the host schools Alumni Day program. This was to be the third diaritond game between the two schools, each nine having already achieved one victory over the other. After a luncheon at Lamie's, the team held its preliminary workout on the well- groomed diamond before it was learned that jack Boyle would not be able to don the mask and protector that afternoon, In that emergency, Coach Murphy designated Andy McAuliffe and Paul Carey as his starting battery and the team lost no time in getting a substantial lead for the southpaw twirler. To open the game, Kel singled down third, Fish lashed a safety to center, and Andy bunted safely to fill the sacks. On Henry Lanes fly to deep right, Kel scored and Fish moved to third, whence he tantalized the pitcher into an erratic throw to the third baseman and that gave us a second tally. Andy also moved up on the miscue and he sauntered home after Gibby's hoist to left, Before we were retired, Brooksie and Carey also singled, but Paul was out stealing and our margin was held to, 3-O. When Exeter was retired in order in the home half, jim Grogan inaugurated the second chapter with a single that drove out Deveres, the starting pitcher, and brought in Graves who had much more success than his predecessor. joyce and Collupy fanned, but Kelly walked and Andy drove in the two runners with a lengthy double and our scoring was over for the day, After getting by the first two stanzas easy fashion, the Red and Black left-hander lost his control temporarily in the third when four successive passes and a long fly gave the home team two runs. Three singles by Exeter men added another tally in the fourth, but Bob Joyce averted further trouble by making a spectacular catch of Fitzpatrick's foul fly 10 feet outside the foul line, while traveling at top speed. From that point on, the rival pitchers were in complete command and neither team threatened too seriously to register, just after jim Grogan had singled with one down in the ninth, rain forced the game to be called with the hnal score St. Sebastian's 5, Exeter 3. To add to the color of the closing innings, when the Exeter-Andover track meet ended, the Andover rooters established themselves behind our bench to cheer us on to victory. Paul Carey, in particular, caught their fancy and they applauded his every move. Besides Bob joyces fielding gem, Henry Lane's plaj' on Deveres roller in the eighth was a beautiful piece of defensive work. Realizing that Fish could not make the play in time, Hank crossed in front of the shortstop, scooped up the ball and threw out the batter on the dead run. Three singles were all that the home team could collect off Andy's delivery, while all our sluggers found the range except Gibbons and Joyce, yet a brace of blows by Fish and Andy raised our safety total to 9. To provide an athletic feature for St. Sebastian's annual Fathers' and Sons' Day, Boston College High School came to Nonantum Hill to close our competitive Baseball season and the wild and wooly contest finally ended, 11-10 in our favor. Because of the friendships existing between members of both teams, there was much good-natured chaffing before the contest and extravagant predictions as to its outcome, McNabb and 1-I 170 I-1

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Macomber were the starting pitchers and they both emerged from the first inning without serious damage, although Bob Kelly opened our half with a single to left, In the second, however, Bob yielded the visitors two runs and his team mates were so aroused that they proceeded to rack up 7 tallies in the home half of the frame, Strangely enough, this outbreak was not due to any prodigious slugging on our part, but rather to the generosity of Macomber, the BC. High twirler, and defensive lapses of which we took full advantage. After our first three batters had reached safely via the hit batsman, walk and error routes, Bill Brooks found the first pitch to his liking and singled sharply to score Lane and Gibbons. On the throw-in to the plate, Brooksie continued to second and then to third when a wild heave resulted from an attempt to nail him at second, and McNabb meanwhile also scored, Bob Joyce's sacrifice Hy to center was deep enough to let Bill score our fourth tally before Macomber issued four more passes that forced in jack Boyle and set the stage for a Gibbons' double that brought home Kel and Andy. Fish had fouled out earlier, so, when Lane was called out at the plate attempt- ing to score all the way from hrst on Gibby's two bagger, the nightmarish inning came to an end. Not content to let us enjoy a 7-2 lead, the intowners rallied for four runs in their half of the third before Dick Doyle was doubled off Hrst on McMorrow's fly to Brooks, Both teams changed pitchers soon thereafter, Andy McAuliffe replacing Bob McNabb and BC. Highs Macomber withdrawing in favor of Harrington. First to solve the new twirler's stuff, jack Boyle hammered out a triple to the old backstop in left Held to inaugurate our fourth and Bob Kelly brought him in with a hard chance that Cataneo found too hot to handle. Scoring one run off Andy in the sixth, the visitors were deprived of another by the alertness of Henry Lane who noticed that Maddalini failed to touch the plate and tagged him out to retire the side and keep us in front, 8-7. Although we lost the lead temporarily in the 7th when B.C, High pulled out ahead, 9-8, Brooksie tied up the game in our half by singling in McNabb who had also hit safely. The tie was not to last, however, for an infield error on our part allowed the Maroon and Gold to forge ahead, 10-9, in the eighth, Witli everyone practically ex- hausted by the ding-dong character of the fray, Fran Kett, running for jack Boyle who had just powered out his third straight safety, scored the tieing marker in our half of the eighth to make it 10 all, and, a minute later, Kel tallied from third on a wild RED AND BLACK TALLY Frank Kett Scores Witli Plenty Of Time To Spare. 172