“We win! We win!” cried the Riverdale Roarers.
“Of course we win!” yelled Teddy. “It takes Tommy Tiptop to do things!”
There was a moment of silence on the part of the visiting nine. It had happened so suddenly that they could not realize it. They had been sure of victory, and at the last moment their rivals had won. They did not understand it.
“That was a great run, Tommy!” exclaimed Billie Ruggler.
“Well, I knew I just had to make it!” panted Tommy.
Then the losers cheered the winners and the winners gave a cheer for the losers, and the first real game was over.
“But we’ll play you another,” said the captain of the visitors. He did not like to lose.
“Of course,” agreed Tommy. “Next time we may have suits.”
“I’d rather win the game than have uniforms,” went on the captain of the losing side. “But next time we will win.”
Tommy laughed as his chums gathered around him, and then the two teams left the field. As our hero walked out of the lane to the village street he saw his sister. A girl was with her.