It will not be possible to describe the games of the season in
detail. There were twenty scheduled games in all, though three
were called off on account of rain. The Army won twelve out of
sixteen games played with college teams. Dick and Greg were the
battery in the heaviest nine of the winning games, and in one
of the games lost.
Prescott and Holmes had no difficulty in putting up a game that
has sent them down in history as being the best Army battery to
that date.
But the Navy, that year, had an exceptionally fine team, too,
with Dave Darrin and Dalzell for its star battery.
"This is the game we've got to win, fellows," called out Durville
earnestly, two days before the Annapolis nine was due at West
Point in the latter part of May. "We've done finely this year,
better than we had hoped. But, after all, what is it to beat
every other college, and then have to go down before the Navy in
defeat at the end?"
"Who says we're going down in defeat?" grumbled Greg.
"If you say we're not, you and Prescott, then you can do a lot
to hearten us up," continued Durville, with a sharp glance at the
star battery pair.
"See here, old ramrod, you know all about that Annapolis battery,"
broke in Hackett, of the nine. "What about them as ball players?
I understand you went to school with Darrin and Dalzell. Do
that pair play ball the way they do football?"
"Yes," nodded Dick.
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