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Then it was the Navy's turn, and the Navy had to lie on its keel above the boards of the bunker, in order to reach its ball at all, and missed it twice. "Better give it up, old chap," said Major Flint. "Unplayable." "Then see me play it," said Captain Puffin, with a chewing motion of his jaws.
"Come along, Danny boy." As the two midshipmen lifted their caps and hastened away, Fields gazed after them speculatively: "There goes the Navy's strength in to-day's game," he announced. "I wonder if we have done Prescott any wrong?" said another cadet slowly. "That question has been settled by formal class action," replied another. "It's a closed matter."
And the British navy's nets and traps, and her thousands of patrol boats made the submarine commanders' task ever more difficult. Within a few weeks after the latest German policy was in effect the Allies could again breathe easy. Casualties at sea continued, but there was no general destruction as had been promised.
The Navy's playing was the most wonderful that I ever saw." Dave, in the meantime, had saluted, then stood at attention until the Army officer had passed. "There!" cried Belle triumphantly. "You have it from the other side, now -from the enemy." "Hardly from the enemy," replied Dave, laughing. "Between the United States Army and the United States Navy there can never be a matter of enmity.
But it surely will be a blow to the United States if the Navy's three best submarine experts have to be lost to the country to satisfy a discharged enlisted man's spite." Eph Somers had come down from the tower. He, too, looked extremely grave, though he showed no demoralizing signs of fear. As for the six midshipmen, they were brave.
While the Milford Haven operations have taught some valuable lessons, they were conducted under but few of the conditions that are most likely to occur in actual warfare; and had the defense been carried on with an organization and command equal to that of the attack, the Navy's triumph would, perhaps, not have been so easily secured, and the results might have been very different.
Day by day for more than twenty months he had been collecting details of every phase of the Navy's operations, here a little and there a little. He had recently returned from a confidential tour of the shipyards and naval bases, and had exercised his trained eye upon checking and amplifying what he had previously learned.
Then, of a sudden, while the Hannistons worked within a dozen yards of the Navy goal line, the college boys made a new attack, the strongest they had yet shown. There was a bumping crash as the lines came together, at the Navy's right. Another clever attack, backed by a ruse, and one of the college boys started on a dead run with the ball. In vain the Navy's backs tried to stop him.
It was the Navy's turn to make the kick-off. This gave the Army at least the chance of starting the running with the ball. Prescott and Holmes had shown as yet no signs of cave in. Every player on the Navy team looked to see this swift, tricky army pair make the first effort of the new series. He carried it ten yards, too, ere he was obliged to go to the ground with the pigskin under him.
"And the game, to-morrow!" breathed Midshipman Dalzell fervently. The morrow's game was to be against the University of Pennsylvania eleven. The opposition team being an unusually good one that year, the Navy's gridiron pets were preparing to strain every nerve in the hope of victory. In that afternoon's practice Dave and Dan showed up better than ever.
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