"You're in much too fine shape for that, Dick." "Other pitchers have often had to be retired before a game ended," Prescott rejoined, gravely.

"And I don't believe that I am the greatest or the most enduring ever.

Keep yourself up, Dave! Be ready for the call at any second." "Oh, I will, but it will be needless," Dave answered.
Dalzell and Holmes were other members of the school nine squad who had been picked for this first game.

Purcell was to catch, making perhaps, the strongest battery pair that Gridley High School had ever put in the field.

Half of Dick & Co.