"I think you ought to call a special meeting of the club on this."
"I will," answered Joe, and ran off to execute the idea without delay. Soon the boys gathered at the clubroom, and then Harry read the letter out loud and passed the hundred dollars over to the treasurer.
"Whoop! this is simply great!" cried Fred. "Harry, you're a—a peach!"
"Wish we could all hammer bulls with bats!" piped in Matt. "Say, wouldn't we get rich, at one hundred per bull?" And this raised a short laugh.
"Let us give Mr. Corsen a vote of thanks," suggested Link. "It's the very least we can do."
"A vote of thanks and a complimentary seat in the grand stand to all of our games," added Bart.
The latter suggestion met with instant approval, and a nicely worded letter was sent to the gentleman without delay and in it was enclosed the necessary pass for the grandstand.
"I am sure that ought to please him," said Joe, after reading the letter over, and adding his signature to the pass. And it did please the gentleman very much, as they afterwards found out.
CHAPTER X.
THE FIRST CHALLENGE.