“That’s something no man knows.”
“It’s what everybody here knows!”
“Never mind. Perhaps being beaten in the first game will make us all the better for the series. Isn’t the Military Academy nine about the strongest in the league?”
“It isn’t so strong as ours when you pitch. What do you think, Dan; did Gus do that on purpose?”
“He says he didn’t.”
“No one believes him.”
Dan did not reply and at that moment Carlton Hall came running to the side of the young pitcher. “O Dan!” he exclaimed. “Wasn’t it too bad? Didn’t you see Gus Kiggins when he threw that ball?”
“It wouldn’t have hit me if I had.”
“Some of the fellows say he did it on purpose just the same as he tried to get you out of the game by making you sick beforehand.”