St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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AT THE PL ATE AND ON THE MOUND McCa1thy style On May 15th our booming bats demolished Browne and Nichols 14 -1- as the band wagon rolled on Big Bros pitched flawless ball striklng out elextn and scat termg a few scratch h1ts The 1 ame was ours all the way as we scored two runs in the first and four ln the second Browne and Nlchols eked out two runs in the fifth on two errors and one each 1n the first and fourth Bros was the star of the day leadlnf our offense with three singles as well as rendering a superlatlxe pitching performance Bill Cosgroxe and the man behind the mask each got two one of Paul s being a booming four bagger The big bats thundered again on Mav 17th sounding the death knell of another xahant nine This time the drubbxng was at Mlddlesex with a final result of 12 2 Larry Cummings showed the C oncord boys dazzling speed and rare pltchmg form as he blazed his fast ones past elghteen belligerent batters He struck out the Slde in the first, fourth, and Hfth Only one scratch hit kept him from turning 1n the first no hits, one of them a double VV1thout a doubt this was the finest exhibition of baseball displayed by any player all season Arrows tallied four times in the fifth twice in the seventh and three times each in the eight and nmth Middlesex s only two runs came ln the fifth on a walk an error and their only hit The foul lead off men Duel Cosgroxc Brosnahan and Carev each spanked three safeties 1m Brosnahan likewise turned in a sterling pitching performance on May 19th against Huntington on the home grounds Again and again thc horsehlde felt the impact of Red and Black bats so much so that when the dust cleared we were on the heaxy end of a 19 2 score Bros fanned four and scattered seven hits He alded and abetted his own cause by slapping three hits himself as did Dow ney Fay and Cosgrove One of Blll s was a triple The Old Red head McCarty smote a couple Huntington s runs came in the thlrd and fifth cantos Our VlCtOlX string was dCC1ilX ely snapped fixe days later at Exeter where we succumbed to our hosts 25 6 The game was a comedy of errors from the start and the less said about it the better fl'79l v ' ' f x ' Y ' - , . A . u n . K I K . r , U . , . , I x A 5 gl . . - ' 1 I i . - 5 s ' ' Q U A A N A K ' l ' ' ' r 1 ' . K l K ' hh , a 1 4 4 5 Q x . Y x , K , ' . . . l hitter since Jim Cotter turned the trick a few years ago. On top of this, he got three K 'x u ix Q, 1 u u , , ' 5 4 ' 9 v is - V ' i ' 2 l V -, I L K 1 si I A 1 x Y L ' A . I . 5 u I V U -V . . t . , , x ' 5 V ' GS - 51 I K 4 , . a '

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BROSNAHAN KNOCKS THEM OUT AND HURLS THEM IN St Clement s chmbed the h1ll on the second day of the new month to engage us They went down a few hours later on the short end of an 8 1 declslon Larry Cum mmgs hurled a masterful game, gn mg up only three h1ts and one base on balls whlle strlklng out 12 We scored one run 1n the openmg stan7a, one ln the thlrd two ln the fourth and Hfth, and one IH the last two frames George Bernler was the batting star w1th a smgle a double, and a trlple to gne hlm three hlts ln five trlps to the plate Paul Carey and lm Fax each slapped two h1ts one of Pauls be-mg a two bagger Followmf thls game the team set out for Western Massachusetts and Lenox Here on May 3 the annual Cranwell game was played At the end of the regulation nme mmngs the score was tled at four all After sxx more mnlngs, the scoreboard still read the same, and the game was called on account of darkness Jlm Brosnahan pltched and had one of h1s wxldest days, g1v1ng up twenty walks but he made up for It by str1k1nff out one more than that Only three h1ts were tallled agalnst h1m m the fifteen mmngs The opposmg pltcher Bowen, also proxed effectne Stflklng out twenty two Three consecutne Red and Black players fanned ln the mnth Captain Paul led the hitters wlth two followed by Dexer Fay Bros and Donnelly wlth a smgle each Traxellmg down to Bramtree the team lost a heartbreaker to Thayer by a 2 l count Larry C ummmgs pltched excellent baseball, strxkmg out twelxe and scatter mg nme hlts Only two men got on base w1thout swmgmg Each slde scored ln the fourth and the score was stlll knotted gomg mto the mnth NN hen Giggles fanned the first batter thmgs looked fax orable but a smgle and a double put men on second and thlrd On the two and two pltch the next batter stroked a clean smgle to left brmg mg ln Thayer s wmnme run Cares and Cummmgs each connected once while Pete 'VIcCartx chalked up two smgles 'Ihe next team we were pltted agamst was Chrxstlan Hlgh Thus fracas took place on our home grounds on May 10th We emerged on the long end of a 10 '5 score oe Hlgglns started and was pltchmg well untll he ran lnto a llttle trouble m the Hfth lnmng He was rehex ed by Bros who pltched the rest of the sex en mnmgs St Sebastlan s plcked up one run 1n the first on doubles by Cosgroxe and Carey Charlxe Coyle droxe ln Dlck YN eber for another tally m the second frame Three runs were added ln the thxrd two m the fifth and three more ln the slxth Chrlstlan s only runs came m the Hfth Once agam Captaln Paul led the team wlth two doubles and a sxngle followed closely by Cosgroxe Fay C ox le 'VICC arty and Donnelly with two hlts each H211 , . 1 , ' - - 1 1 1 . . , 1 1 11 ' 1 J 1 J 1 1 ' - - , 5 1 ee ' . . , 1 r 1 1 1 D . 5 1, ' 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 7 - 1 1 1 U ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 3 1- 1 11 1 - - 1 1 1 11 1 1., , , ' 9 , ' 7 'S , 11 1 11 1 1 - 1 1 11 1 , 1 7 ' 1 ' ' ' 1- 1 1 r -1 . A . 1 I ' ' 1 1 1 1 K .. 1 1 1 K K. , . . . . , . 1 - 1 9 ' 1 1 - .1 ' -1 1 1 1 1 .' ' ' . 1- - 1 1 1 - 1 - 11' 1 1- ' 1- A 1 1 1 1 1 1 -1 1 1 1 . 4 . , . . , . . . . ', ' X ' ' 47 '. A . A . . 1 '1 1 1 , . ' 1 1 ' J 1 11 1 1 1 11 1 11 K. . . K . ' 7 . 1 1 1 . 1 , I I . 1 . . 1 1 1 - 1 , 1 1 . 9 , 1 . . . 1 , ' . v ' , , . . 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' , , 1.A , , 1 ,A 1

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