“You seem to be one of those chaps who count chickens before they are hatched. Everything is against you to-day. You’ve made one clean hit off the coon pitcher.”
“We’ll find him before we’re through. Just keep watch.”
In the sixth inning the Outcasts resorted to a new trick. The first batter bunted and beat the ball to first.
The next man bunted toward third, laying down a “dead one” just inside the line. In the confusion that followed the batter reached first in safety.
Bob Gowan laughed.
“Now you see how they do it!” he exclaimed.
“I don’t see that they’ve done anything yet,” said Grafter.
When the next batter tried to bunt and popped up a little fly that was taken by the third baseman on the run and shot across to first for a double play, Grafter held onto his sides and roared.
“No use,” he said. “The coons have you. You can’t get away from them to-day.”