St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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

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pitch that gave us the verdict, 11-10, Far from being counted out, our opponents threatened by getting two men on in the ninth, but Henry Lane came through with a brilliant, back-handed stop of Dick Doy1e's savage drive to bring about a force out of Londergan at the hot corner. During the season we had played better ball than the brand we exhibited against B.C. High that day, but no victory was sweeter than this conquest before the Fathers' and Sons' Day gathering. For the Red-Blue game, Bob McNabb and Larry McAuliffe were named the respec- tive captains and the contest was played the day before graduation, An unusual touch was noticed when Andy McAuliPr'e donned the Blue mask and protector to catch the slants of his brother Larry. Henry Lane was on the Red mound, with jack Boyle as his battery mate, and the converted third sacker twirled so artfully that he was not reached for a safety until the sixth. ,To give Henry contidence, his brother Reds came up with clusters of two and three runs in the 2nd and 5rd innings and they added a final sixth tally in the 4th to put the game on ice. Without the semblance of a hit, the Blues pushed across their lone tally of the day in the Sth, Frank Hennessy scoring from 5rd on an infield bobble. No player on either side was able to secure more than one hit in the seven-inning fray, joe Deignan's triple being the longest drive and'Hilt Collupy's single, the lone Blue safety, As the result of his victory, Bob McNabb joined the St. Sebastian immortals whose fame is enshrined in the commemorative plaques that adorn the refectory walls. Thus the highly successful Baseball season of 1948 came to an end, with the St. Sebastian nine achieving a record of 9 wins in 12 games. Such a record was eminently satisfactory in view of the high caliber of the competition undertaken and the four straight victories over Thayer, Dummer, Exeter and B.C. High probably represent the Schools finest diamond accomplishment. Accordingly, Captain Andy McAuliIfe's 1948 team will always be a strong contender for the title of St. Sebastian's finest diamond aggregation. ' ' sf ' i ,y,, , t 1- 1 it 2.35532 '- Gr es 2 173 I-.