To himself he swore savagely.
“I’ll know better than to give him another one like that,” he thought.
Hodge was eager to follow Frank’s example. He forced Wolfers to cut a corner, and then he hit the ball fair and hard.
It went like a bullet.
Straight into the hands of Rush.
Like a flash Rush snapped it to Tinker, who covered second.
Frank was caught off the bag, not having time to get back, and the Elks had made a handsome double play.
“Hooray!” bellowed the big man. “That’s the kind of work, boys!”
The crowd cheered, and the play deserved it.
Hodge felt sore.