Scudder actually laughed when Lynch swore in a smothered tone of voice.
"It’s a shame," he said, "but you can’t knock that fellow out with an iron bar."
Dick was rather weak when the team lined up again, and, of course, he was not selected to advance the ball, which was given, instead, to Nunn, for an end-run. Steve was tackled and held without a gain.
But the next effort was successful, Singleton going through center for seven yards. The ball was close to the center of the field. Again Fardale was doing well, and her supporters cheered lustily.
But Shannock soon became an offender, for he failed to take Buckhart’s pass properly, and let the ball get away from him. Kernan came through and fell on the oval, which brought the thirty Viewland rooters up standing and shouting.
Seeing this, Jabez Lynch laughed.
"Now Viewland will do something," he thought.
His conviction seemed justified, for the visiting team quickly lined up and hit Fardale’s right wing for a gain of more than five yards. As a rusher, the new man Quimby gave Douglass all he wanted to do.
Warne was given the ball next, and he seemed to start for a run round the end, but he turned suddenly, and hit the line in the same place as before, going through between Douglass and Stanton for fully nine yards before being brought down by Nunn.
Viewland did not stop. She was out for blood this time, and something like seven yards were made with a revolving formation that again struck Fardale’s right wing.