“Hurrah! Putnam Hall wins the race!”
“That was a dandy, wasn’t it?”
“Our boys rowed for all they were worth!”
Yells and cheers rent the air and there was a tooting of horns and whistles.
It was certainly a great victory for Putnam Hall, and Captain Putnam and George Strong were correspondingly proud. As usual Josiah Crabtree kept in the background, for he thought all such contests foolish.
“I congratulate you,” the captain said to Dale and the others. “You deserve a great deal of credit.”
“You won because you kept at it to the end,” said George Strong.
Dan Baxter and his cronies were not happy. The victory of our friends seemed to make their defeat worse.
“I suppose they’ll crow over us for keeps now,” said Coulter.
“Oh, these races don’t amount to much anyway,” put in Reff Ritter, with a yawn.