"Now, I wonder if you'll listen to the school!" cried Luke Phelps, giving an extra hard shove. "I only hope the 'Ancient Mariner' is seeing this. What's your awful haste, Somers?"
"Well, if we don't play to-day it's a mighty certain thing the 'Hopes' won't," returned Bob, energetically.
"Boys, boys, what is the meaning of all this?"
The familiar tones of President Hopkins' voice, suddenly rising sharp and clear, quelled the tumult around the captain.
"Stop!—I command you to stop this disgraceful scene at once!" he called, sternly.
"They deserve to be suspended!" came in the sonorous voice of Captain Bunderley.
The boys, taken completely by surprise, fell back in dismay before the president.
But the reaction was only momentary.
"Hold the bases and keep on the field!" Dan Brown was yelling with all his force. "Don't let the Ramblers sneak back a yard!"
"Stop, I say; stop!" repeated President Hopkins. His usually good-natured face was glowing with keen indignation. "You are acting most outrageously!"