“Yes, we’re to play the Fayetteville Academy lads on their grounds.”
“A trip out of town, eh? That’s two in two weeks.”
“Well it gives our fellows experience in playing on some other diamond than their own.”
“Oh, it doesn’t much matter. The Fayettevilles will be easy fruit for us.”
“Don’t be too sure. They’re a younger team, that’s true, and they haven’t been doing well this season, but neither have we of late.”
“Oh, we’ll beat ’em,” declared the captain confidently.
“I think so myself, but I don’t want you to take too many chances. Here comes Sam. You and he get in for some warm-up work, Bart, and I’ll get the scrub together.”
Darrell went about the diamond, calling to the various members of the “scrub,” or second team.
“We haven’t any pitcher,” remarked Blake Carrington, who acted as captain of the scrub organization.