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Near at hand, on the side-line, Gardiner ground his teeth on the stem of his pipe and watched with expressionless face. Professor Beck, at his side, frowned anxiously. "Put it over, now!" cried the St. Eustace captain. "Tear them up, fellows!" The quarter gave the signal, the two lines smashed together, and the whistle sounded. The ball had advanced less than a yard.
Possibly these detective stories were a side-line of Mr. Gould's, or possibly my regiment was the one anti-Gould regiment in the Army. At any rate, I was demobilized without any acquaintance with the Won by a Neck stories. There must be something about the followers of racing which makes them different from the followers of any other sport.
"Play back further and stop that tackle!" "Watch for a forward pass!" warned a second squad back. "Spread out, Billy!" "Hold 'em!" shouted Carmine. Then came the signals, back sped the ball a poor pass the second came tearing through, Carmine dropped the ball and swung his leg and away it floated. A second squad back caught it near the side-line, tucked it under his arm and started back.
I remember that side-line stroke and those three "hits" with great joy! I find it a matter of some difficulty to decide which is the most memorable of the more important matches in which I have played. Four or five as I recall them seem, each in turn, to have left a lasting impression on my memory for one reason or another. Yet none of them appear more worthy of note than the others.
All drives should be made with a stiff, locked wrist. There is no wrist movement in a true drive. Top spin is imparted by the arm, not the wrist. The backhand drive follows closely the principles of the forehand, except that the weight shifts a moment sooner, and the R or front foot should always be advanced a trifle closer to the side-line than the L so as to bring the body clear of the swing.
The Somal always "side-line" their horses and mules with stout stiff leathern thongs provided with loops and wooden buttons; we found them upon the whole safer than lariats or tethers. Arabs hate "El Sifr" or whistling, which they hold to be the chit- chat of the Jinns.
The crowd began to melt away, squad after squad moving off down the field to take position and learn the rudiments of the game. Blair assembled the experienced players about him and, dividing them into two groups, put them to work at passing and falling. The youth with the straw hat still stood unnoticed on the side-line.
On the side-line, his hands in his pockets and his short brier pipe clenched firmly between his teeth, Gardiner, Hillton's head coach, watched grimly the tide of battle. Things had gone worse than he had anticipated. He had not hoped for too much a tie would have satisfied him; a victory for Hillton had been beyond his expectations. St.
"Do you know," she told him presently, "I haven't stopped to gather up the hats since the night you came. Bob, dear, I'm afraid you're ruining my business." He stared at her amazed. "I don't understand" he said. "I don't gather moss," she taunted him; "my specialty is hats," and then she explained for the first time the peculiar side-line in which she was engaged.
He's going to put Greer on the scrub to-morrow." "That's where you might as well be," answered the big center good-naturedly. "The idea of playing a criss-cross with your right end on the side-line!" "We took two yards just the same," replied Warren. "We gave it to you, my lad, because we knew that if you lost on such a fool play your name would be well, anything but Thomas 'Stumpy' Warren."
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