“That would be bully!” cried Bobby.
“It would be a regular see-saw!” exclaimed Fred. “First one team would be in the lead and then the other. It would be a rattling hard fight all the way from the start of the season to the finish.”
“It’s a corker,” agreed Skeets.
“A pippin of a scheme,” declared Sparrow with emphasis.
“I thought you fellows would like it,” said Frank, much pleased at the enthusiastic reception of his plan. “I talked it over with Dr. Raymond, and he said that he saw no objection to it.”
“The doc’s a good old sport,” commented Fred.
“And Dr. Raymond saw the head of the Belden school and he agreed to it too,” continued Frank, “while the captain of the Belden nine is fairly daffy over it.”
“How many clubs are there to be in the league?” asked Bobby.
“We decided that four would be enough,” answered Frank. “You see, we have only Saturdays to play, and if we had too many clubs in the league we couldn’t play enough games to really make the thing go. But with four teams, each can play three games with every other team and that would give us a pretty good line on the strength of each nine.”
“Every team would play nine games altogether, then,” figured Fred.