“Zip! Boom! Two more runs for Longley!”
“That’s the way to do it, boys! Let’s snow ’em under!”
“Take Halliday out!” was the angry cry of fully a dozen cadets. “Take him out! He has no business on the team!”
And thereupon amid shouts of derision Paul Halliday was compelled to quit the field and one of the substitutes went to take his place.
“It wasn’t my fault! I stepped in a hole,” growled Halliday when he came to the bench. He made a show of limping badly. “I almost sprained my ankle.”
“Well, your two errors have been very costly,” answered Gif coldly.
After that the pitcher for Colby Hall tightened up, and the next man up was put out on strikes and the side retired.
With the score 10 to 4 against them, Colby Hall did what it could to redeem itself during the last inning. They made one run, followed by two outs and two hits which brought a man on first and another on third. Then Brassy Bangs came to the bat.
“Now, Brassy, here’s your chance!”
“Knock it over the back lots!”