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Updated: June 16, 2025
When the diamond squad reported, Lieutenant Lawrence, the head baseball coach, ordered the young men outdoors to the field. "Come over here, please, Prescott and Holmes," called the coach, who had been conferring in low tones with "Durry." "What positions do you two feel that you would be at your best in?"
But I'll look for both you and Holmesy at practice this afternoon," ended "Durry," hastening away. "Go to a diamond try-out?" asked Greg when Dick broached the subject. "Of course I will, and crazy over the chance. All that has held me back so far, old ramrod, was the fact that you hadn't been invited. But now that has all been changed."
Durville took a good grip on his stick, his alert gaze on the man in the box. With hardly a trace of flourish Dick let the ball go. On it came, not very swift and straight over the plate. "Durry" himself felt a sinking of the heart that. Dick should let such an easy one leave him. Yet Durville had his own work to do honestly. He must pound this easy one and drive it as far as he could.
"Somehow, Prescott, it seems almost impossible to think of you heading a charge, or graduating number one in your class. You'd be too much afraid that someone else wanted either honor." Prescott laughed good humoredly. Then, dropping his voice, he went on very gravely: "Durry, you've behaved very nicely to me in more ways than one, after that time when I necessarily reported you.
"Get a fresh ball!" shouted one member of the training squad. "That leather isn't going to come down again!" It did, though a scout had to run far afield to pick it up. Lieutenant Lawrence didn't look exactly disappointed, but he had hoped to see something better than this had been. Five more Dick pitched in, and of these "Durry" put his mark on three. "That will be enough to-day, I guess, Mr.
"I never imagined the fellow could stick as long as he has," Jordan told himself disconsolately. One night Anstey, just before the semi-ans., took a chance. Usually the Virginian was careful in matters of discipline. But now he invited a dozen members of his class to his room to discuss an "important matter." "Going?" asked Durville of Jordan. "I'm not invited, Durry," replied the other.
"Then we surely do need you both, for we've seen Holmesy toy with the ball, and we know where he'd rate. Do you think you play baseball at the same gait that you do football, old ramrod?" "I think it's possible that I do," Dick half admitted slowly. "Always modest, aren't you?" laughed "Durry" good humoredly.
There was hope of further scoring. Yet no keen disappointment was felt when Jackson struck out. In from pasture trooped the Navy men, eager to retrieve all in the ninth. "Fit to stay in the box, old ramrod?" anxiously asked "Durry," as the nines changed. "Surely," nodded Dick. "Don't stick it out, unless you know you can do the trick," insisted the Army captain earnestly.
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