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Look here, Roy, do you know Eliot's finger signals to the pitcher?" "Why, yes." "Uses the old finger system, doesn't he?" "Yes." "One finger held straight, a straight ball. Two fingers close together, an outcurve; spread apart, one on the inside corner. One finger crooked like a fish-hook, a drop." "You've got 'em correct, but what's that got to do with "
"I'll go you ten to five he doesn't." "Done!" They had no time to put up the money, for Merriwell was at work again, and they were eager to watch him. The very next ball was an outcurve, but it was beyond Gibson's reach and he calmly let it pass. Then followed a straight one that was on the level with the top of the batter's head, and Gibson afterward expressed regret that he did not try it.
He had a straight ball, shoulder high, level as a stretched string, and fast. He had a jump ball, which he evidently worked by putting on a little more steam, and it was the speediest thing I ever saw in the way of a shoot. He had a wide-sweeping outcurve, wide as the blade of a mowing scythe. And he had a drop an unhittable drop.
"Now, then, let her drive -not too hard," ordered Mr. Luce. Dave let go with what he thought was an outcurve. It didn't fool the coach. He deliberately struck the ball, sending it rolling along the floor as a grounder. "A little more twist to the wrist, Darrin," counseled the coach, after a scout from the squad had picked up the ball and sent it to this budding pitcher.
"In your mind, Sport, old boy." Merriwell seemed to be examining the pitcher's plate, then he looked up like a flash, his eyes seeming to sparkle, and with wonderful quickness delivered the ball. "It's an outcurve," was the thought which flashed through Gibson's mind as he saw the sphere had been started almost directly at him.
"Well, he doesn't seem to be so very rattled after all." "Can't tell yet. He did all right that time, but Gibson has two more chances. If he gets a drop or an outcurve that is within reach, he will kill it." Ben Halliday was catching for Yale. Rattleton, the change catcher and first baseman, was laid off with a bad finger. He was rooting with the New Haven gang.
If it was an outcurve it seemed certain to pass over the center of the plate, and it would not do to let it pass. It was speedy, and the batter was forced to make up his mind in a fraction of a second. He struck at it and missed! "Three strikes batter out!" called the umpire, sharply.
Again Prescott turned his wrist and twirled. "Strike two!" Then an outcurve. "Strike three! Out!" Lehigh began to look with some interest at this new, confident pitcher. The next Lehigh man to bat met a similar fate. So did the third man. Now, the West Point yells went up with new force and purpose. The corps yell rose, loud and thunderous, followed by three cries of "Prescott!"
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