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I have played against all the chief clubs in the district, and in any of those matches, if such a thing had happened, this man would have been ordered off the ground." There was a buzz of approval, in which several of the Philistines joined. "You are quite right, Mr. Blake," answered Mr. Fox. "I deeply regret that the game should have been spoiled by a member of my team.
From the hill's edge they could look over a wooded plain running far to the east. "It's a beautiful place to live up here, but on this side you need a ladder to get to it. The little village is going to die too much altitude. It's a horse killer. No team can draw anything but its breath going up that hill.
It's the close coöperation That makes them win the day. It is not the individual Or the army as a whole, But the everlastin' team work Of every blooming soul. Each man is directly responsible to his immediate superior. He should never, unless the circumstances are unusual, go over his head and he should never do so without letting him know.
As she came out upon the Avenue for the walk home, she saw a group of people from a gardener's house, who had collected beside a muddy crossing, where a team of cart-horses had refused to stir. Presently they sprang forward with a great jerk, and a little Irish child was thrown beneath the wheel.
It is very important in order to avoid unpleasant disputes to have this matter fully understood and agreed upon by the managers of each team before the game starts. On account of fences, houses, and other obstacles that some baseball fields have it is customary for the umpire to decide what are called "ground rules" before the game starts.
As our coach rattled up to each station six harnessed mules stepped gayly from the stable; and in the twinkling of an eye, almost, the old team was out, and the new one in and we off and away again. During the afternoon we passed Sweetwater Creek, Independence Rock, Devil's Gate and the Devil's Gap.
The goalkeeper of the team, too, young Lincoln, was rather a nice-looking fellow, nearly six feet high, and well-proportioned, with eyes sparkling with humour, but he lacked the fine open countenance of his captain. "The other members of the team were much of the ordinary type of humanity, just like our average football club men, with any amount of nerve and energy.
But Arthurs has made him into a great field captain and a base-getter of remarkable skill. An unofficial computing gives him the batting average of .536. No captain or any other player of any big college team in the East ever approached such percentage as that. It is so high that it must be a mistake.
The driver with great difficulty kept his team from breaking into a gallop. Five minutes later, a wolf came galloping from the forest on the left side where I sat. "'Don't fire till he is quite near, said Kanchin, 'we shall have no occasion to make long shots. "The wolf was distinctly visible on the clean snow, and I allowed him to approach within twenty yards. I fired, and he fell.
Once I hears the off-leader tell his mate that the jockey stick is sawin' him onder the chin. I investigates an' finds the complaint troo an' relieves him. The nigh swing mule is a wit; an' all day long he'd be throwin' off remarks that keeps a ripple of laughter goin' up an' down the team. You-all finds trouble creditin' them statements. Fact, jest the same.
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