The Love Match by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Author:Stan & Jan Berenstain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

Mr. Grizzmeyer stood straight up and squared his shoulders again. “I’ll tell you what we do,” he said. “We fight! We can’t allow them to keep girls off our wrestling team, not in this day and age! Besides, Bertha’s our best wrestler! We’ll take ’em to court!”

But Bertha shook her head. She was the kind of cub who hates being the center of attention. “Please, Coach,” she said. “Don’t make a big fuss on my account. I’d really rather not be in a league that feels that way about girl wrestlers.”

Though the fire remained in Mr. Grizzmeyer’s eyes, he pursed his lips and nodded. “All right, Bertha,” he said. “If that’s the way you want it, then that’s the way it’s gonna be. But I can’t think of a replacement for you. I guess we just won’t have a wrestling team this year.”

Suddenly Bertha had an idea. “I know!” she said. “What about that new cub, Milton Chubb? Couldn’t he replace me?”

“Yeah!” said Barry. “There sure isn’t any question about his being a heavyweight.”

The coach considered this for only a moment before shaking his head no. He thought the new cub was too gentle, too passive to play any competitive sport. Besides, he’d heard that Too-Tall was giving him a pretty rough time. Judging from Milton’s reaction to the gang’s taunts about his joining the football team or the basketball team, it wasn’t likely he’d want to be on the same team with Too-Tall.

As the dejected cubs trudged off to the locker room, Barry turned to Gil and said, “Pretty disgusting deal, huh?”

“Yeah,” said Gil. “But Coach still has that fire in his eyes. He’s a fighter. And he wants this wrestling team more than anything.”

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