To be sure, there was still his falling-out with Tom and his quarrel with the school at large, but those things seemed rather to lend him a new strength than to bother him.

He played with a dash and a reckless disregard for life and limb that made Coach Robey observe him with a new interest.

Tom performed with his customary steadiness and more than once put it over on Fowler and on Churchill, who substituted him.

They were some three dozen very tired youths who finally straggled back to the gymnasium when the work was over.
On Wednesday the last real practice of the season was to be held, since the Thursday performance was more in the nature of an exhibition for the school than real work, and on Friday afternoon the team was to journey over to Oakdale, on the Sound, and remain there until Saturday forenoon.
But the weather proved unkind on Wednesday.

In the middle of the forenoon the wind veered around to the south and a drizzle of rain set in.