"I'm going to take care of myself as if I were glass, until the Gardiner game is over." "You won't get too nervous, will you ?" "I may be a bit, before the game," Dick confessed, candidly.
"But after the game starts ?" "Once the game opens, I shall forget that there's any such fellow as Prescott, sir.

I shall be just a part of Gridley, with nothing individual about me." "Good! I like to hear you talk that way," laughed Mr.Luce.
"I hope you'll be able to keep up to it when you go to the diamond.
Once the game opens, don't let yourself have a single careless moment.

Any single point we can get away from Gardiner will have to be done by just watching for it.

You saw them play last year ?" "I did," Prescott nodded.

"Gridley won, four to three, and until the last half of the last inning we had only one run.