No one did, apparently, until young George Wrenn hazarded: “He’s sort of crazy about golf, isn’t he?”
“That’s so,” agreed Tubby Bumstead. “He’s trying for the team, or he was in the Fall.”
“That may do,” said Jonesie thoughtfully, making a note on the sheet of paper beside him. “We may be able to work that up. Anything else?”
Evidently that exhausted Buell and after a moment Jonesie went on.
“The next fellow is Gordon,” he announced.
Several of the All-Stars chuckled, and Jonesie smiled demurely himself.
“Onions!” said Pinky explosively, and the room rang with laughter.
“Onions,” agreed Jonesie. “That’ll do for Gordon, I guess! And that leaves only Proudfoot, and——”
“‘Quentin Durward,’” proclaimed Ernest Hoyt, “‘is probably the most popular work of the great novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray.’”
The All-Stars chuckled and giggled.