Carson tried to get back. Swift as he was, however, Starbright had the ball, and put it onto him.
“Out!” declared the umpire.
“Will you please kick me?” exclaimed Ready. “I did that by getting you off too far.”
To Hodge it seemed that his show was poor, as there was no one ahead of him on bases when he came up, and two were out. He remembered, however, what he had done before, and he resolved to make another attempt of the same sort.
With two out, Morgan ventured to put one right over for Bart. Hodge hit it for a safe single.
“Well, here we go!” cried Ready. “He’ll make another run without half-trying.”
But Morgan watched Bart so closely that the latter could not steal second, as he had before. Then Browning put up an infield fly, which was captured by Mason.
The sixth inning began with Mulloy at the bat. Barney led off with a clean single. Dick permitted the Irish youth to get too much of a start, and he stole second, for all of Bart’s handsome throw to Rattleton.
Gallup struck hard at the first ball, but missed, as it jumped. The next one failed to take the jump, although Dick threw it for that kind of a ball, and Ephraim smashed it.