“I say you did.”
“So do I,” added Bart Conners. “I saw it as plain as day.”
“Humph! Maybe I did go over an eighth of an inch,” sneered Bock.
“You went over half a foot,” said Andy.
“Play fair!” shouted a score of Putnam Hall students. “Everybody watch the foul line!”
After that Roy Bock did not dare to overstep the line. As a consequence his delivery was not so good, and his score dropped behind a dozen points or more.
At last the two teams reached the ninth frame. Pornell was leading by seventeen points. They got two spares, one made by Carey and the other by Noddingham.
“Do your very best, fellows!” cried Jack, to his friends, and they bowled with such care and swiftness that they got three strikes and two spares.
“Hullo, it’s almost a tie!” cried Harry Blossom. “Go in and win!”
“Make every ball count now, fellows!” yelled Pepper. He was so excited he could not keep his seat.