“Well, don’t do that, anyway.”
“I don’t want to see them again,” declared Harry, passionately. “Please let me throw them out.”
“No. Put them in your trunk if you don’t want to see them. Then wash your face and we’ll go for a walk. I guess a walk will do us both good.”
[CHAPTER XXII]
GERALD MAKES THE TEAM
Arthur’s probation and his loss to the Track Team caused consternation throughout the school. It made necessary a new figuring of the probable result of the Duals, and when five points for first place in the pole vault was deducted from the Yardley column and credited to Broadwood it left the respective scores dangerously close; 67 for Yardley, and 65 for Broadwood. Andy Ryan was perhaps the most disgusted of any, and refused to recognize Arthur by so much as a nod for several days. But the trainer’s anger couldn’t last in the face of Arthur’s behavior, for that youth presented himself on the field the next afternoon and went bravely about the coaching of the remaining candidates in the pole vault.
“Maybe we can get a second and third out of it, after all,” he said, cheerfully. “Myers has been doing pretty good work lately and I’m going to make him dig hard.”
The rules prevented Arthur from using a pole himself, even to illustrate a point in his instruction, which was something of a drawback, but in spite of that he did grand work for the next ten days, and Myers and Cowles added many inches to their performances. And when, three days before the meet, it was voiced around that the former had done better than ten feet in a trial the school took heart again.