The last wicket fell for ninety-two, a respectable total, of which fifty-nine had been made off the Parretts' batsmen, and thirty- three off the schoolhouse.

Indeed, the advantage of the schoolhouse did not end there.

Out of three catches--not counting Riddell's--they had made two, while of the five wickets which had been taken by the bowling, they claimed three against their rivals' two.
Great was the dismay of Parrett's as these results were made known.
They buoyed themselves up greatly, however, with the prospect of the batting, where it would be strange indeed if they did not score better than the schoolhouse.

And after all, it is the runs that win a match.
Bloomfield himself, be it said to his credit, allowed no petty considerations of party rivalry to influence him in sending in the best men at the right time.

However much in some ways he might lend himself to the whims of his more energetic comrades, in a matter like the Rockshire match, where he was in sole command, and responsible for the glory of the school, he acted with the sole object of winning the match.
It would have been easy to send in Fairbairn and Porter last, when they would have no chance of scoring; or Coates, who was a rash hitter, and never was safe until the back of the bowling had been somewhat broken, might have been sent in first.
But such an arrangement Bloomfield knew would be fatal for the chances of the school, and it therefore never entered his head to contrive it.
And his fairness in this respect was fully justified, for the school put together a hundred and twelve runs--just twenty more than their opponents--a performance which not even the most sanguine Willoughbite had dared to anticipate.