. St. Nicholas [serial]. am confident thatthey will obey orders and win for old Bannister just thesame as if their coach were on the field. In my absence,Captain Donald Hildreth is in complete command,having full responsibility for the line-up, and the squadwill obey unquestioningly his decisions, being answer-able to me for any breach of discipline. Fight and winfor Bannister! Patrick Henry Corridan, Coach But just below this, sighed by Captain DonHildreth, leader, and a pitcher for Bannister, wasthe line-up of the gold-and-green for the big game,and Billy Dwyer, after hastily running down th
. St. Nicholas [serial]. am confident thatthey will obey orders and win for old Bannister just thesame as if their coach were on the field. In my absence,Captain Donald Hildreth is in complete command,having full responsibility for the line-up, and the squadwill obey unquestioningly his decisions, being answer-able to me for any breach of discipline. Fight and winfor Bannister! Patrick Henry Corridan, Coach But just below this, sighed by Captain DonHildreth, leader, and a pitcher for Bannister, wasthe line-up of the gold-and-green for the big game,and Billy Dwyer, after hastily running down thelist, gasped suddenly, for there, after the nameof Emory—catcher, he read, Hildreth —pitcher. A hot wave of unreasoning anger shook thesenior. Naturally, no definite promise had beenmade, but it had been a foregone conclusion thathe was to be on the mound for the big game, asDon Hildreth, also a fine pitcher, had held thatposition, the week before, against Dunham fact, Coach Corridan had groomed Billy for. HIS TEAM-MATES WERE ALREADY DONNING UNIFORMS FOR THE BIG GAME the Marston battle, and the senior, a shade morebrilliant than steady Captain Don Hildreth, hadlooked forward to playing, with his father in thestand, in this final game that was to decide thestate inter-scholastic baseball championship. Be- tween these two clean-cut, straight-forward, andintensely loyal athletes of Bannister, a bitter feudhad existed ever since Dons freshman side by side on the school eleven, Donhad cheerfully obeyed Captain Dwyers orders;and now, on the diamond, Billy had unquestion-ingly followed Captain Hildreths commands,each confident in the school spirit of his rival,though they never spoke to each other off theathletic-field. Turning from the bulletin-board, dazed by thecruel blow, Billy Dwyer found,himself face to facewith his rival. There was a moment of tensesilence, while the team-mates of the two pitcherswaited; then Captain Hildreth started to speak,but Bil
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