"All right. What do you think I ought to give him?"

"Try him on an in-shoot."

Once again, Tom sent the ball over to third, almost catching Clink
napping as before. Then, the instant he had the sphere once more in
his possession, he sent it swiftly in over the plate.

"Three strikes! Batter out!"

"Good for you, Rover! That's the way to do it!"

"Now kill the other two, Tom!"

But to "kill the other two" was not so easy. The next man went out on
a pop fly to third, which held Clink where he was. Following that came
a safe hit which took the batter to first and allowed Clink to slide
in with the first run. For the moment pandemonium seemed to break
loose. The Roxley cohorts cheered wildly and sounded their horns and
rattles. Brill, of course, had nothing to say.

"Oh, Songbird, they got in a run!" remarked Nellie, much dismayed.

"Well, the game is young yet," returned the Brill student.
Nevertheless, he felt much crestfallen to think that Roxley had scored
first.

With one run in, and a man on first, Roxley went to the bat with more
confidence than ever. But it availed nothing, for Tom finished the
inning with the Roxley runner getting no further than second.