“The winning team shall take all the gate money.”
“Agreed!” said Frank, with a promptness that surprised Lawrence. “It’s settled!”
“You won’t get a dollar.”
“Don’t worry about me. Will you announce the game here to-day? It will be the best sort of an advertisement.”
“Yes, I’ll announce it.”
As Frank walked away, Lawrence turned to Wolfers, chuckling:
“Didn’t I work that cleverly? The directors instructed me to give him another game. I’d had to have done so on an even break, fifty per cent. to each team, if he had insisted; but I kept away from him and made him so eager he was willing to take terms of any sort. We’ll get all the boodle.”
Cutts went in to pitch the game, and for five innings he had the heavy-hitting colored boys at his mercy. In the sixth inning he went to pieces and gave the Giants five base bits, which netted three runs.
At that time the Elks had five scores.
Wolfers warmed up at once.