Baseball stories; Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; School sports -- Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
Talbott, following Tom at bat, reached first on an error, this time by
second baseman, and on the throw to first Clif scuttled to third. The
Wolcott infield appeared pretty well demoralized then. Talbott made an
easy pilfer of second, the catcher making a short throw in hopes that
Clif would try to score. But there was only one away and Clif hugged
the bag. Van Dyke, after getting in the hole, began lifting fouls, and
when he had sent right fielder twice across the line after them he
managed to put the next fly fair. Clif brought in the tying run while
the ball was being relayed to the plate. Cobham ended the inning with a
strike-out.
In the next inning Ogden passed the third Wolcott batsman, but with
two down he wasn’t risking much. The subsequent man flied out to
Tom. Wyndham proved that she had lost her awe of Osterman by getting
two hits in her half. Pat Tyson made the first, after Jeff Ogden had
fanned, and stole second on the next pitch. Raiford flied to short
center and made the second out. Captain Leland advanced Tyson to third
and went to first on a hit through the box. Clif, however, had no luck
this time, and his easy grounder to Osterman was fielded for the third
out.
Clif got his first chance in the field when Wolcott’s shortstop
selected Ogden’s first offering in the fourth and crashed it well
toward the running track. Clif had determined to follow Mr. Connover’s
instructions and “squeeze them” to-day, and when this ball landed in
his hands he did his best to push it out of shape before he returned
it to the infield. The previous batter had hit to first baseman for an
easy out, and now, with two away, the next man secured Wolcott’s third
bingle by poling a fast one into left field. When, however, he tried to
go down to second Cobham’s perfect throw caught him standing up.
Talbott got his first hit in the last of the fourth, a Texas Leaguer
back of shortstop, but he, too, was caught stealing. Tom hit a long
fly to right for the second out, and Van Dyke fouled to first baseman.
The game was going fast and honors were so far about even. Each team
had scored once and each had three hits to its credit. Only in the
matter of errors did Wyndham have the better of the argument, for the
Dark Blue still had a clean slate while Wolcott had two miscues scored
against her. There were thrills in every inning, and excitement was
more intense than at either of the previous contests. Loring, seated
to-day in the stand between Mr. Cooper and Wattles, had a simply
frightful time with his scoring. Scoring calls for a steady hand and a
cool head, and to-day Loring possessed neither!
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