“Can’t tell,” confessed Frank. “If it does, I won’t use it except on a pinch at the very last end of a game when everything depends on striking out a good batter. It will be valuable if I don’t use it more than three or four times for the season.”
Hodge nodded.
“It might save the championship. Nobody can tell. What do you know about Nat Finch, the new Princeton man?”
“Nothing, save what I have heard in the way of gossip and what I have read in the papers.”
“Everybody seems to think he’s a terror.”
“He must be a good man, or he would not have such a reputation. But he will have his bad days, like the rest of us.”
“We can’t expect to win the pennant on his bad days.”
“Not much. Harvard is not making such a blow as Princeton, but she will put a strong team in the field.”
“What do you know about Harvard?”
“I know she will be in it with both feet. To-day I consider Harvard fully as dangerous as Princeton.”