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"Up-hill work, and no mistake!" said the Brill captain, when the team had come in for the seventh inning. "See here, Bob, if you think you would rather try some of the other pitchers " began Tom. "Nothing of the sort, old man. You are doing very well. I don't consider four runs against two any great lead. And you haven't walked as many men as their pitcher."
It's kind of like when the score is 2 to 0, in favor of the home team, and we are feeling good then all of a sudden in the seventh inning the boys go all to pieces, and let the other side put four men across the plate. Strange how David fumbled and played badly when he had had such a long winning streak, but so it must ever be when you get the idea you're "it" and can't slip.
Curiosity would be satisfied; nature would get out of her cage; even romance would get an inning. Ninety-nine young men out of a hundred would submit, if only because it would be much easier to submit that to resist. And the result? Obviously, it would be laudable that is, accepting current definitions of the laudable.
Here we spent the rest of the day, laying in a stock of much needed fresh provisions, and sending nine of our college base-ballists, at the invitation of the Port Hawkesbury nine, to give them some points on the game. About the fifth inning the game closed on account of darkness, with score in Bowdoin's favor something about 30-0.
It seemed evident by his manner that he was speaking of something that did not please him very much. Merriwell was pulled out of his sweater, and then somebody tossed him a practice ball. Little Danny Griswold, the Yale shortstop, put on a catcher's mitt and prepared to catch for Frank. Yale was making a last desperate struggle for a score in the sixth inning.
In the very first inning, with only one out and a runner on third, the Oakdale batter, taking his instructions from Captain Eliot, had walked out to the plate with the bat held in his right hand, handle downward, which was the signal for the squeeze play.
"I'm not afraid of any bunch of rustlers that Hank Fisher can scare up," he went on, "but it isn't a man's personal feelings we got to consider. It's for the good of this ranch. And, as Bud says, we want to make a clean-up this inning." "That's why I'm going to have help," Bud remarked, as he went to call his father on the telephone. Mr. Merkel whistled when he heard the disastrous news.
That inning the locals did a little batting on their own account, with the result that the score looked a shade better, for it was three to six when once more Scranton went into the field. When it was seen that Hugh walked to the box some of the local rooters cheered lustily, for Hugh was a great favorite.
The playing continued, with both teams fighting hard and wasting no opportunities after the conclusion of the fifth inning.
Before beginning the transcription of his notes, Bean had to learn the latest telephone news from the ball-ground. During the last half-hour he had inwardly raged more than usual at Breede for being kept from this information. Bulger always managed to get it on time, beginning with the third inning, even when he took dictation from Breede's confidential secretary, or from Tully, the chief clerk.
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