St Nicholas [serial] . its teams. He flatly refused to have any-thing more to do with the team unless Marshwere to play. Graham is the cleverest little player I eversaw, he said; but he can never last througha game against that big Stonefield team. Theywill just smother him by sheer weight. So thecaptain, as many school captains have done HOW THE BROWNIE PUT ON WEIGHT. 169 before him, gave in against his own judgment,and it was settled that Marsh was to play. You 11 see your whirligig go to smash,though, said the captain. • I 11 risk it, the coach replied, with a ratheruneasy laugh. Now the wh
St Nicholas [serial] . its teams. He flatly refused to have any-thing more to do with the team unless Marshwere to play. Graham is the cleverest little player I eversaw, he said; but he can never last througha game against that big Stonefield team. Theywill just smother him by sheer weight. So thecaptain, as many school captains have done HOW THE BROWNIE PUT ON WEIGHT. 169 before him, gave in against his own judgment,and it was settled that Marsh was to play. You 11 see your whirligig go to smash,though, said the captain. • I 11 risk it, the coach replied, with a ratheruneasy laugh. Now the whirligig was the pet trick of theMelden team and the product of Brookss brain. the pass accurate and quick, nine times out often the first rush could shoot the ball throughthe unprotected part of the goal before the goal-tend could get back to that side. It was a clever trick, and the Brownie andthe captain played it like clockwork. Marshwas too big to wheel quickly, and in conse-quence half the time he failed on THE BALL SHOT FROM HIS STICK IN THROUGH THE COAL. (SEE PAGE 27I.) It was worked in this way : The second rushercarried the ball down the left-hand side of thesurface, while the first rush kept on down theright-hand side. Just before the second rushercame within reach of the opposing half-backsstick he made a feint for a back-hand shot atthe goal. This of course brought the half-backand goal-tend over to the left-hand side of thegoal to block off the shot. But instead of mak-ing the drive, the second rusher wheeled shortaround as he lifted his stick, and snapped theball in the same movement over to the firstrush, who had taken his place on the righthand of the goal. If the feint was clever and The noon train on Saturday brought up toMelden the Stonefield team, with a crowd ofbackers, and also a small group of Harvard menwho had come up to see the boys fight it Graham was among them. He went atonce to Berkeley street, and there found a verydisconsolate smal
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