CHAPTER II
ABOUT THE ROVER BOYS
“Now then, fellows, don’t forget to bring in the winning run!”
“Show Hixley High what we can do!”
And then came a rousing cheer from the Colby Hall cadets, and once more they gave the well-known military academy refrain.
Any ordinary pitcher might have been nervous over the prospect ahead of him; but Dink Wilsey was not one of that caliber, and he faced the next batsman as coolly as he had all of the others. Two balls were called, and then two strikes, and then two more balls, and the batsman walked to first base.
“Hurrah! he’s afraid to give him the kind we chew up.”
“Maybe he’ll let the next man walk, too!” cried another.
But this was not to be. The next cadet up went out on a foul, and the inning came to a sudden end.