As for the game with Claflin, now just a fortnight distant, why, it was already as good as lost! Anyone would have told you that.

The only point of disagreement was the size of the score.

That ran, according to various estimates, from 6 to 0 to 50 to 3.

It was a wonder they allowed Brimfield that 3! But all this was on the way home.
Gradually the reaction set in and hope crept back.

After all, a slump was something you had to contend with.