“I know it!” growled Chet, picking up another ball.
He then did a foolish thing, for, having missed the spare, he rolled the final ball carelessly, the result being that it simply clipped off the corner pin.
In a close candlepin bowling match every point counts, and the winner often is the man who can best pick off single pins.
“Eight pins for Arlington!” said Gardner, as he recorded it on the score board, making a total of seventeen.
Dick had hard luck with his first ball, cutting two pins out of one side of the bunch.
“That’s a shame,” said Chester, laughing.
Although Dick took the greatest pains, his next ball cut out two pins on the opposite side, and left in the worst possible position the ones standing.
At this Chester laughed heartily.
“A wooster!” he shouted. “You’ll get five pins on this roll, if you’re lucky.”
Brad Buckhart was both angry and disgusted.