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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Great Caesar!" muttered Roy, who was again standing. "You did that? How " "Oh, I'm surprised at your dullness," laughed Rackliff. "You heard me coaching. You heard me calling out for the batters to 'get into it, 'hit it out, 'drop on it, 'give it a rise, and so forth." "Yes." "Yes; well, there you are. When I said 'get into it, it meant that Springer would pitch an in-shoot.
Anger came to his rescue, and he flung himself into his pitching with fierce ardor. He quivered with a savage hope when Keene swung ineffectually at the high in-shoot. He pitched another and another, and struck out the batter. But now it meant little to see him slam down his bat in a rage. For Ken had a foreboding that he could not do it again.
"Look out! look out!" yelled the coach at third, and Clink dropped and grabbed the sack just in the nick of time. Then Tom went for the batter. One strike was called, and then two balls, and then another strike, and a ball. "Don't walk him, Tom, whatever you do," said Spud, as he came down to consult with the pitcher. "All right. What do you think I ought to give him?" "Try him on an in-shoot."
The eighth inning opened with Don Satterlee at bat. Luck seemed for a moment to have made up its mind to favor the home team. An in-shoot caught the batsman on the thigh and he limped to first. Meyer "Chick" Meyer, as Tom triumphantly explained sent him to second and gained first for himself, owing to an error. Then came an out.
The Navy had been playing grand ball that spring. It would never do to let the Army get too easy a start. But Dick poised, twirled and let go. It was a straight-away, honest and fair ball that he sent. To be sure there was a trace of in-shoot about it that made Hutchins misjudge it so that, in the next instant, the passionless umpire sounded the monotonous solo: "Strike three -and out. Side out!"
"Now play the game, fellows," called Eliot, from behind the pan. Hooker's small eyes glittered as Rodney Grant stepped to the plate. Like a flash he pitched, again using an in-shoot. Grant stepped back, held his bat loosely and bunted. As bat and ball met, the Texan's fingers seemed to release the club, and it fell to the ground almost as soon as the ball.
His position at bat bothered Ken, for he stood almost on the plate. Remembering MacNeff's weakness, Ken lost no time putting a swift in-shoot under his chin. The Place captain lunged round at it, grunting with his swing. If he had hit the ball it would have been with the handle of his bat.
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