"Now, Randall, do 'em up! Wallop 'em!" shouted a tall dignified man, accompanied by two pretty girls who sat well down in front on the center grand stand. "Eat 'em alive! Eat 'em alive!" "Oh, papa!" cried one pretty girl, clasping his left arm. "Oh, papa!" exclaimed the other pretty girl, seizing his right arm. "That's all right, my dears," he answered. "Don't you suppose I want to see my old college win? And they will, too! Those boys have grit!" "Yes, but they're short one of their best players," said a man next to the "old grad," and he told about Sid, for that was common knowledge now. A goose egg went up in the Boxer frame that inning, and Tom looked happier. But, try as his men did in their share of the third, nothing resulted, though Woodhouse laid out a pretty liner, which was caught, after a run, by Sam Burton. Then came the heart-breaking last of the third, when three runs were added to Boxer's score. "Go on back home!" yelled some Boxer enthusiast at the Randall team. "You can't play ball! Go back!" "Not until we have your scalps!" declared Bean Perkins vindictively. Seated together on the middle grand stand, Madge Tyler, Mabel Harrison and Ruth Clinton looked at each other. "Looks pretty bad, doesn't it, Ruth?" asked Madge. "Don't talk," said Ruth in a low voice, as she saw her brother's team coming in. "I'm--I'm just _praying_ for them, Madge." A ray of light came to Randall in this inning for, though Pete Backus struck out, Tom laid down a pretty two bagger and came home on what was intended as a sacrifice hit by Joe Jackson, only it was fumbled and Joe got to first. Then Jerry fanned and Dutch got out on an almost impossible foul that Stoddard grabbed, banging up against the grand stand to do it. "One to five," remarked Tom musingly, as he went to his box, for the ending of the fourth. "Well, we can't be whitewashed, anyhow, but I guess it's all up with us." It seemed so, for in that inning Boxer added two runs to her credit, even if again Tom did strike out Langridge. The score was 7 to 1 against Randall now. In the fifth inning Tom's side gathered in one run, Phil making it on a sacrifice by Holly Cross, and Boxer further sweetened her score by another tally. In the beginning of the sixth Randall had the joy of seeing another single mark go up in her frame. "We've got three runs," Tom remarked to Phil, as he went to his box. "One more in each inning will look pretty, but it will hardly do the work," and he spoke bitterly. "Hard luck, old man, but maybe it will turn," came from Phil.