"If I had stayed in another inning the game might have changed.

He is pitching good ball, but I'm hanged if I can understand why they do not hit him.

It looks easy." Neither could the Harvard lads thoroughly understand it, although there were some who realized that Merriwell was using his head, as well as speed and curves.

And he did not use speed all the time.

He had a fine change of pace, sandwiching in his slow balls at irregular intervals, but delivering them with what seemed to be exactly the same motion that he used on the speedy ones.
The fourth batter up struck out, and again Harvard was retired without a score, which caused the Yale crowd to cheer so that some of the lads got almost black in the face.
"Well! well! well!" laughed Rattleton, as Deacon Dunning passed over the money he had been holding.