CHAPTER VI.
READY STEADY.
Merriwell saw that Ready could not catch for Buck Badger.

There was such an utter absence of anything like team-work that there seemed to be little hope that the game could be won by Merriwell's nine if the battery was not changed.

Badger could pitch like a wonder at times, but he rattled Ready, who, as a rule, and in regard to other matters, was as steady as a clock.

Ready simply could not do himself justice with Badger in the box.

He felt it as well as Merriwell, but he doggedly continued, determined at all events to do his best.