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to make the big play.”
“Have we trapped him Syet‘."'
“Uh, I don’t think so. Sam?" G
“No. We haven't trapped Truck's man. Trapped mine,
though. Made him mad as the dickens."”
“All right. Lets give the old finesse to Mr. Gross’
gentleman.”
Joe called an off tackle play away from Truck’s man.
The big defensive tackle came through like a freight train
and pursued the play.
’Fhe next play started just like the previous one. Plug
Short churneg to the riiht; the tackle came through. Too
late he saw that the other back wasn't leading the play.
At that point somethinfilslammed into him from the side.
Ham Guest took the ball off Joe's hip and cut hard right
behind Dink's trap block. The middle Linebacker pivoted
just in time to catch a stunning blow in the ribs from a
squatty pile driver. Ham was into the secondary without
a%and being laid on him.
Ham ran straight ahead, but could feel the corner backs
closing on him. A loud HUP! came from behind him and
he cut for the sidelines. A cornerback was put in perfect
osition to be blocked off his feet by Smoke Cunningham.
B{am heard another HUP! and he cut for the middle of the
field again. The safety and the other cornerback put on the
brakes and slid and slipped t;iing to gain footing and get
in position to pursue and make the tackle.
Ham's powerful legs churned at the mud. The
Woodlawn tacklers left knew instinctively that they were
going to take a pounding when the{ went into those tank
treags. A hand slapped Ham's thigh pad from behind and
he stumbled. He could hear hoofbeats loud behind him. So
meone screamed GO, HAM!" and the hoofbeats ceased.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a red jersey come into
his view. He cut for it. Truck Gross' big number 66 went
down under the last Woodlawn shirt ang Ham rumbled in
to the end zone, dropped the ball and sprawled in the mud,
comgletely spent.
illy Ray laassaks wiggled out from under the corner
back he had taken out and sprinted for the end zone,
singing:
Old Mister Ham he done it right
Run that trap and took to flight.
Me and Trucfl and Smoke we blocked like pros,
Now them Woodlawn boys act like they froze.
HOO HOO HOO, HEE HEE HEE.
But Billy Ray was fourth or fifth on the pile 13) Hounds
were trying to get to Ham to slap helmets and shoulder
pads. “Hey, you guys! I lost my snorkle mouthpiece and
I'm drowning! Let me up, you idiots!"’ Hounds unpiled and
Ham came into view, sputtering and choking. *'l was two
feet under water!"" he yelled, grinning through mud daub
ed on his face through the mask.
The Hound defense was going bananas on the sidelines.
“What speed! What finesse! Wfiat gliding poetry in mo
tion,” Turk yelled when Ham came off, wiping at the mud
covering his face. That big square farmer’s face split into
a horrib%e grin, mud-stained and slimey with grass cling
ing to eyebrows and teeth. Prom materialized in front of
him. He found the snaps of Ham's helmet and eased it off.
Ham bent over and Prom started wiping the mud and grass
off with a big towel.
The fleet Hound banzai runners flew gleefully down
under the high kick and stopped the Woodlawn back in his
tracks on the twelve yard fine. The Hound defense went
out, high fiving the kicking team as they passed.
Handling the slippery ball tightly, the Woodlawn backs
made a first down in three plays.
“I'm gonna get me a quarterback!" Porter Ables
rasped in the defensive hudc(ille.
“Now, now, Porter, we mustn't get overwrought,”” said
Skip Dunsmore.
“What'll they do here, Turk?" someone asked.
“First down. They'll probably sweep to the wide side,
try to spread us out,”’ said Turk.
Porter slapped Junior and Luke on the tail. *You guys
cover for me. I'm gonna get that sucker!”
At the snap the W ood%awn guards pulled and the play
came Porter's way. He flung one blocker aside and launch
ed himself over the second blocker, wrapping his long arms
around the quarterback, clawing for the ball. It popped
loose and the Hounds were after it like ducks on a june bug.
The offense began jumping up and down on the side lines.
“Fumble! Fumble!" they yerled. Hounds were grabbing
wildly at the skittering ball, which seemed to have a mind
of its own. Finally a big block number 13 came down on
the elusive ball in the fetal position. Porter jerked Dexter
Penrose to his feet. ‘*‘What the devil are you doing here?
lz'ouk’re supposed to be way back there protecting our out
ack!”
Dexter grinned through the rain. **Somebody has to
protect all of us when one of us goes temporarily insane!"
Porter put on a face of great %urt. “Temporarily insane,
is it! I'll have you know, Mister Penrose, that it was ole
Porter who put the hit on the man that made him drop the
little brown ball! Ain't that what we s’posed to do?"
They went off jabbing their fingers into each other’s
stomachs to make their points. The offense slapEed helmets
on the way out. The coaches and players on the sidelines
grinned broadly at the mock battle%etween the two as they
came off.
“Insane, my foot! I'm just a 5..."
“You ain’'t got a brain in your big fat head and
you. . .
The Hound offense slogged it into the end zone in six
tough plays, Plug Short ramming over from the one. The
half ended in a 14-14 tie.
By the start of the second half, the rain had stopped.
Woodlawn mounted a march and got to the Hound tgirty.
At that point Turk hit a big Woodlawn back head on in
the hole and the ball popped straight up. When they unpil
ed, it was Tim Storey who had the ball clutched in Kis tEin
arms.
Expecting more of the tackle-to-tackle pounding, the
Woodlawn defense had tightened up, with tge linebackers
dropping into the gaps. On first down, Joe basketballed
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a short pass over the middle to the big tight end, Semi
Paine, and the sherman tank rumbled fif&een yards with
both arms wraßped tightly around the ball in his belly. On
the next play Dink Bohannon went up high with the ball
on what looked like the same play from the other side. The
linebackers back-pedaled frantically, only to see Dink come
down with it and hand off to Plug over guard. Truck and
Sam had cleared a tremendous ho%e on that side, and Plug
went for twelve, slipping off his feet as he tried to cut.
Eyes widened at Joe's next call, but then craft}y"dlooks
replaced the wide eyes. * Admirable thinking, Mr. Merlin,
your quarterbackshir sir,”" said Truck, pursing his litps. il
see that the fair Holly has not taken possession of your
senses altogether.”
Both Dink and Joe spun with the snap and the
Woodlawn linebackers jiggled in place, anxious to plug the
hole wherever it opened. '%o their amazement there was a
loud boom and the ball sailed off Plug's foot in a guickkick.
The Woodlawn safety, caught completely flatfooted,
turned and ran for his life. He caught up witl‘; the ball at
his own fifteen, and was immediately snowed by a horde
of Hounds.
“Good call, Joe," Travis said quietly when the offense
came off. **Puts them in the position of handling the thing.
{;etsdhope we can get it bacfi and put some points on the
oard.
I think," said Luke in the huddle, ‘‘that they may try
to give us a little of our own medicine with some short
passes over the middle."”
They ran one play over guard which Mike Josephs stop
ped coch On the second down play Junior Pollard caught
the impression of the quarterback crouching as if to leap.
At the same time he fefit the big tight end cutting in front
of him. Junior laid his ears back and stomped stride for
stride with the tight end. Sure enough, the quarterback
leaped and pushed the ball four yards toward the end.
Junior strained forward and got a hand on the ball, tipp
ing it. He juggled it from hand to hand and finally gragg
ed it to his ciest. He was in heavy traffic and was busted
from all sides. He felt his feet come off the ground in the
grasp of a huge offensive lineman. He saw Dexter loping
up from his safety position.
“DEX!" he screamed and pushed the ball over the
heads of the Woodlawn players clawing at him. Startled,
Dexter caught the ball in reflex. In an instant, Dexter realiz
ed that almost all the Woodlawn team was clustered around
Junior, trying in a mixed-up melee to get him off his feet.
Most of lt?;em had not realized that he no longer had the
ball. Dexter simply sprinted to the right and was around
the knot of squirming humanity and sailing into the end
zone almost before anybody realized what was taking place.
The Hound's sidelines looked anxiously for penalty gags,
and, seeing none drop, began screaming and jumping up
and down; the coaches, too.
Will Harger calmly put the ball through the uprights
and the Hounds were never headed after that. The game
ended at 36-14.
Travis, soaked to the skin, had never been more pro
ud. He told them all so in the locker room before the long
bus ride back home to Humber Hollow. But also in his mind
was a small incident as he was coming off the field. He had
fiassed a group of people toward the end of the field and
ad suddenly stopfi)ed short. He had gotten a whiff of the
same peculiar smell he had noticed just before his attacker
had swung at him in the doorway of his apartment. He turn
ed and found that he was facing Slab Bu?lock and his usual
group of rough looking customers. One, in faded overalls
with the straps twisted, was closest to Travis as he had
passed. Travis stepped closer.
“HoEe you fellows enjoyed the game,” he said evenly,
eyeing the men, particularly the one closest to him. The
man’s little pig eyes showed something like the cornered
animal. **We did, coach,”” Slab boomed, **we surely did. Yes,
sir, we did!"
“Good," said Travis, and went on toward the locker
room.
On the long ride home, Travis kept turning the inci
dent over in his mind. In Humber Hollow, Darris Hayes
was turning over in his mind the sounds he thought he had
heard in his basement.
Slab Bullock wasn't turning anything over in his mind
when he reached his palatial home. He was unlocking the
back door when he sensed a presence behind him. He whirl
ed and was instantly pinned back against the wall by the
sharp point of something long and shiny in the hands of
a shadowy figure with a copper hood covering his face. Slab
could feel the point piercing his throat. He tried to swallow
and couldn’t. He gulped instead.
‘;:Wha-wha-what do vou want with me? Who-who are
you?
“You know who I am, you mangy piece of hog meat,”
came the low, threatening voice.
“] ain't — ain't done nothin’ to you! What you want
to stab me with that thing for?” Slab's voice had gone
whiny and high.
“I'm after you, Bullock. You and your lousy friends.
And I'll §et you. But in a court of law. I'm not far away
from evidence that will put you away for the rest of your
life. Now turn around!”
The point of the weapon slid to the back of the beefy
neck as the fat man turned. Suddenly he was aware that
something was shif)ping around his legs. Something heavy
and muscular and ... Just at that moment the gaping
mouth of a huge snake appeared in the corner of his eye.
Slab screamed. He opened his mouth and screamed in the
face of those inch long fangs. Then he fainted.
Finally, Darris Hayes got up from his rocking chair and
headed down in the hasement to investigate the peculiar
sounds he had been hearing, or thought he had been
hearing.
It was the last time he was ever seen alive.
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