"Patten, I s'pose. I think it's a beast of a shame, that's what I think! Take a fellow off the nine just five days before the big game! Of course Hammond'll lick us."
"Sure!" was the concurrent opinion.
"If Patten goes back to first you may get his place at right-field," suggested the youngest boy.
"Maybe I will," answered Sid gloomily, "but who wants to play if Roy's out of it?"
And the countenances of the audience answered:
"Who indeed?"
"I'll bet if we wanted to we could get him back on the nine," said Sid presently.
"How?" asked half a dozen voices eagerly.
"Oh, I know a way," was the unsatisfying reply.
"Go on and tell us, Sid!"