It was over!
Round the bases to the home plate came man after man, while the grand stand and bleachers thundered. As Merry came trotting down from third, Old Joe Crowfoot rose and added his shrill shriek of joy to the clamorous uproar.
That home run had placed Frank’s team one score in the lead.
Dick Merriwell danced with delight, laughing and shouting.
What did it matter if Jack Ready followed with a pop-fly and was out? What though Carson failed to hit the ball at all and the side was retired?
Merry went into the box again, and before him fell the best hitters of the home team. They could do absolutely nothing with his double-shoot.
Merry had won the game with his home-run hit over the fence in the first of the ninth.