But three men faced Ogden in the fifth, and but three faced Osterman. Each pitcher accumulated a strike-out, Jeff his first one of the game. In the sixth Wolcott started with the head of her list at bat. Ogden fanned him, however. The Wolcott left fielder smashed one at Tom and Tom tried hard to get it. He failed to reach it, though, by somewhat less than a foot and the ball traveled out to Raiford for a hit. Tom pulled down an easy fly and Talbott got under another. Raiford swung hard at Osterman’s first delivery but missed it. Osterman coaxed him with two wide ones and then sent one about waist-high, and Raiford shortened his grip and laid down a pretty bunt that placed him on first by the skin of his teeth. Hurry sacrificed with a slow one to shortstop. As Raiford had started for second with a big lead he was safe before second baseman was in position to take a toss and the ball went to first for the out. Clif found his batting eye and smashed out a pretty liner to left field for two bases, scoring Raiford. On Tom’s out, second to first, Clif went to third and tallied when Talbott got his first hit which bounced off second baseman’s shins. Talbott himself was thrown out when he tried to steal. Wyndham celebrated those two runs with some of the loudest, most riotous shouting ever heard on the field. With a two-run lead it seemed that the game was as good as won! And Wolcott offered nothing in her half of the seventh to throw doubt on the assumption. The “million dollar infield” disposed expeditiously of the first two batsmen and Raiford of the third. Wyndham arose for the lucky seventh, cheered, stretched and remained standing while Van Dyke went out; first baseman to pitcher, Cobham lost his race to the bag by inches against shortstop’s peg and Ogden lifted a fly to center fielder. Wyndham sat down again only mildly disappointed. Two runs was two runs! Wolcott threw a scare into the Dark Blue’s camp in the first half of the eighth when, with one down, Osterman seemingly decided to do his bit toward winning the game. The Wolcott pitcher had been at bat twice before, and had been thrown out at first each time. Now, however, he let Ogden get himself in the hole and then straightened out the fifth delivery for a two-bagger into right field. Had Osterman been satisfied with two bases the final score might have been different, but he rashly tried to stretch what was a generous two base hit into a skimpy three with the result that Raiford’s throw to Hurry Leland and Hurry’s fast peg to Tyson landed the ball at third while the Wolcott pitcher was still a yard from his goal. Wyndham breathed deeply with relief and yelled uproariously. The third man was an easy out, Hurry to Van Dyke.