The Rival Pitchers

se as he gathered the victorious nine about him and tried to hug each member. "Well played, m

breaking of training just because you've won the first game. Not much!

" asked Holly Cross, w

?" added Bricktop, hi

trouble to return an answer to so obvious a question. "They a

quickly passed under the entreaties of Pinky Davenport, who was a sportsman and "a good loser," as he besought his men to "p

words and syllables as could well be devised, brought the whole concourse of spectators standing up in acknowledgment. Then

was a glorious victory, as the poem says. I don't exactly remember wh

as Phil Clinton's opini

nine until his throat ached, but somehow t

ommented Sid. "I was almost hoping Lang

y. "That's bad luck, and, wha

e, Patrick Henry!" declaimed Phil. "Honest now, T

into a game. Why, I'd even been glad to act as backstop. But it's all right," he added quickly. "It was a great gam

at the game," observed Sid,

Tom, glad to get on

play Fairview Ins

" fro

e in all the games at home and some that aren't, and they have flags and a yell of their own. They know how to yell, too.

hen you get on the dame question, you don't know wh

Wait until we go there or they come here

ighty pretty girl to-day all right. She had a flag of Randall color

de a fuss," said

ed her hat all squeegee and she blushed and I got red, and th

d. "What did she say? Did you lea

om, with a sort of assumed superciliousn

d on a f

demand

all?" c

provokingly myst

ell a fel

"I saw her walking off after

anded his

grid

d there was a new meaning in

adge Tyler," re

. He graduated two years ago. He was a crackajack first basema

don't see that it makes much differ

t way, he has," went on Sid. "O

hat?" a

you ought to stand treat for Phil and me, Tom, seeing that if it hadn't bee

it has benefited me

ping his friend on the back. "Seeing the game won or mee

ant about meeting her. Langridge seems to h

himself. But come on in here," and he turned toward a drug sto

ht, I'm

nquired Phil as the three were wend

es

to me that for a new acquaintanc

in Northville where I live. She moved away from there some years

ead of letting us think you made an impression simply by the aid of your manly figure? So you

fell to talking about the game until he and Sid got to their room

he had them out on the diamond playing against the scrub. Somewhat to the surprise of members of t

ge when practice was over and the 'varsity game had been saved m

aptain Woodhouse with a grim smile.

't my best specialty and it

vely, "and we must brace up a bit for

s," added the coach. "You

h so well," said Phil Clinton in

wonderfully. Langridge will ha

y said, and if they could have seen his face then they would have been som

hat as Tom was alone in his room, "boning"

, much to his surpris

ar greasy dig, aren't yo

e studying, you know. Tha

but if you're going in for athletics you

d aside the volume, the while wondering why Langridge had c

g more and more cordial. "But I say, Parsons, do

ys count on me. Wha

little open pavilion

near the

t sa

I kn

ed to the sophomores. None other but members of the second-year class may go th

've h

n't think we'd be disturbed. We had a couple of girls there and were having a little confab when along came Gladdu

heard ab

and I feel that not only have we been insul

ee to

ou help us

at you go

now is a coil of wire. I want t

hy can't you get

y an innocent trick in class to-day I'm forbidden to leave the college grounds for a week. Just when I want to go to t

nk that Kerr, the special chum of Langridge, might

ed over a bill, also giving Tom a memorandum of the k

other youth added as he

t's

t the wire for me. I want it kept a dead secret. The

wil

s a freshman of

at the other'

. Shall I swear?"

ficantly. "Have the wire by to-night, and we'll