“Correct.”
“What if he gets only one? He’ll have one hundred and twenty-three. Dick has that already. If Dick gets that pin, Merriwell must have two to tie and three to win. It often happens that a man doesn’t get but one or two on one ball. Get that pin, Dick!”
Dick got it, making his total score one hundred and twenty-four.
“That’s enough to win any bowling-match,” muttered Phil.
“Any but this one,” said Badger. “You’ll see that Merriwell is a hard man to beat. I found it out some months ago.”
Frank now took up his last ball and sent it at the pins which Ready had placed on the spots. It struck them, sent them whirling and crashing, and left but a single pin standing.
“That does it,” admitted Dashleigh, at last. “He makes one hundred and thirty-one.”
This is the score kept by Bert:
| Merriwell. | Starbright. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| 8 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 31 |
| 10 | 27 | 3 | 9 | 40 |
| 9 | 36 | 4 | 10 | 50 |
| 17 | 53 | 5 | 14 | 64 |
| 10 | 63 | 6 | 9 | 73 |
| 19 | 82 | 7 | 12 | 85 |
| 10 | 92 | 8 | 10 | 95 |
| 20 | 112 | 9 | 19 | 114 |
| 19 | 131 | 10 | 10 | 124 |
| —— | —— | |||
| Total 131 | Total 124 | |||
Frank had won the privilege he sought to claim beneath the mistletoe.