. St. Nicholas [serial]. shot through and over thegoal-line for a well-earned touch-down. Sargentkicked goal. The crimson-and-gray flags waved madly, andthree hundred voices cheered and yelled. EvenMrs. Hazard clapped her hands, and Mr. Hanks,just beginning to understand the scheme ofthings, beamed approvingly through his specta-cles. As for Hope, why, Hope was alreadybreathless from screaming, and trembling withexcitement. That was the only scoring, and thefirst period ended with the ball in Croftons pos-session on her rivals twenty-seven yards. Hawthornes chief mainstay was her quarter-back,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. shot through and over thegoal-line for a well-earned touch-down. Sargentkicked goal. The crimson-and-gray flags waved madly, andthree hundred voices cheered and yelled. EvenMrs. Hazard clapped her hands, and Mr. Hanks,just beginning to understand the scheme ofthings, beamed approvingly through his specta-cles. As for Hope, why, Hope was alreadybreathless from screaming, and trembling withexcitement. That was the only scoring, and thefirst period ended with the ball in Croftons pos-session on her rivals twenty-seven yards. Hawthornes chief mainstay was her quarter-back, Gould, a remarkable all-around player. Abrainy general, a certain catcher of punts, abrilliant runner either in a broken field or anopen, and a clever manipulator of the forward CROFTON CHUMS 591 pass, Crofton held him in great respect. Haw-thornes team was, in a manner, built aroundGould, and in that lay whatever weakness it pos-sessed. Johnny had coached his players to stopGould, knowing that, aside from his perform-. JIM TAKES HIS EXAMINATION ON THE FOOT-BALL FIELD. (SEE PAGE 594 ances, Hawthorne had very little to offer in thematter of ground-gaining feats. And through-out the first period, Gould failed to get awaywith anything. Crofton watched him as a catwatches a mouse, and every move of his wassmothered. Whenever he caught a punt in theback field, Tearney and Gil were down on him,to stand him on his plucky little head immediately. The second period began with Crofton in highfeather. Benson and Smith, left half, each madeshort gains, and then Arnold tried a forwardpass from Hawthornes twenty-five-yard threw too far, however, and the orange-and-black received the ball on itsthirteen-yard line. Gouldkicked, and, thanks to twoholding penalties, Croftonwas forced back into its ownterritory in the next fewminutes. Then Arnolds puntwent to Gould on his fortyyards. With the first realflash of form he had shown,the little quarter-back toreoff fifteen yards. From thecent
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