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Bart Hodge stepped out, picked out one of Sparkfair's curves and smashed a hot grounder at Bubbs, who gathered the ball up cleanly and whipped it across to Brooks. "Out at first!" announced Kilgore. "Oh, Bart! Bart!" cried Elsie laughingly. "Can't you do better than that?" He shook his head as he walked back to the bench. "Your turn next, Mulloy," said Frank.
It can be used for various purposes, such as undercutting, clearing out sharply defined angles, outlining the drawing, etc., etc. It should be got with a square cutting edge, not beveled off as some are made. Nos. 10, 11, 12 are flat chisels, or, as they are sometimes called, "firmers." No. 15 is a similar tool, but called a "corner grounder," as it is beveled off like a corner-chisel.
I believe Callopy waited on that curve, decided to hit it, changed his mind and waited some more, and finally the ball maddened him and he had to poke at it, the result being a weak grounder. Then the graceful, powerful Lane, champion batter, champion base runner, stepped to the plate. How a baseball crowd, any crowd, anywhere, loves the champion batter!
The papers printed half-page pictures of him as short-stop stopping a hot grounder. The Toadies' Magazine got out a Bat and Ball number that covered the subject historically, beginning with the vampire bat and ending with the Patriarchs' ball illustrated with interior views of the Van Plushvelt country seat.
The Oakdaleites on the seats implored Eliot to get a hit, and Roger responded by cutting a grounder through into short right field, which let Barker score and placed the visitors in the lead. Newbert's face was white as chalk.
Then Don pitched a drop, and the batter hit a bit too high and sent a grounder toward third base, and was thrown out. The next batter caught the first ball pitched and hammered it to center field for a base. Don's lips twitched. He wondered if the runner would try to steal, and if he would be too green to hold him close to the bag. Ted motioned him to play the plate.
The majority of the Oakdale players were much cast down, however, and it was a rather feeble and heartless cheer that the rooters with the crimson banners gave the substitute pitcher. Hooker pitched two balls wide, and then put one over; which the batsman hit, rolling a grounder into the diamond for Chipper Cooper to handle.
The best that the State players could do in their half was for one man to send a weak grounder to Raymond, one to fly out, and the other to fail on strikes. Wayne went to bat again, and Raymond got his base by being hit by a pitched ball. Reddy Ray bunted and was safe. Weir struck out. Graves rapped a safety through short, scoring Raymond, and sending Ray to third.
Slick drove a sharp grounder at Netterby, who booted it into the diamond, and a run came in before the ball could be recovered. Oliver was safe on first, and the sacks were still full. The score was tied once more. Carson walked out and laced out a handsome single, which brought in two runs. "How Featherstone would rejoice had he lingered!" muttered Sparkfair. "They're getting away with this game.
Then when Tom Lindsay hit a little slow grounder into the infield it seemed that a just retribution had overtaken the great Natchez team. Ordinarily this grounder of Tom's would have been easy for a novice to field. But this peculiar grounder, after it has hit the ground once, seemed to wake up and feel lively. It lost its leisurely action and began to have celerity.
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