“How do you make that out?”
“Merriwell put Mason on the team, didn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“He has been told that the man was not fast enough, hasn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“He wouldn’t drop him, would he?”
“No.”
“Well, that fixes the responsibility. Merriwell has shown mighty poor judgment, and that’s all there is to it. I have nothing against Merriwell, but I have against the association that lets him run the team just as he likes, in defiance of anybody else. Merriwell is a wonder as a pitcher, and he’s all right as captain of the team; but he should not have supreme authority, and I’ve said so right along. Why, some of his best friends are against Mason.”
“Who?”
“They say Hodge has kicked like a steer. Notice Hodge has not been in his usual form to-day?”