We've just _got_ to make the sand fly, if we expect to catch up with those older teams." "Well," Hugh assured him, "you'll know all about it by tomorrow night, because the last knot will have been untied by then, and everybody notified to come out to the meeting.

Then beginning on next Monday afternoon, hard practice for the lucky ones, to be continued every decent day during the week, with a game against a picked nine on Saturday." "Will Mr.Leonard coach the team as he promised, Hugh ?" asked K.K.
Mr.Leonard was the assistant of the head of the Scranton schools, a pretty fine sort of a young man, who had gained quite some fame as an athlete while at Princeton, and was well fitted for the task of athletic instructor, which post he filled in addition to other duties.
"He told me he would take the greatest pleasure in trying to build up a winning team for Scranton," Hugh informed them.
"Good for Mr.Leonard, he's a dandy!" exclaimed Eli; and that seemed to be the consensus of opinion; though Nick was seen to allow his upper lip to curl a bit at mention of the athletic instructor's name.
There was a reason back of that, as the other boys well knew, for they remembered the time when Nick had been handled pretty briskly by Mr.
Leonard, and made to apologize for some rude remark he had thrown out heedlessly in his rough way.

It could hardly be expected that Nick would ever have a very good opinion of the young man who had humbled his swollen pride in the presence of the same fellows whom he had so long ridden rough-shod over.
"Well, the afternoon is getting on, and supper-time will be around before long; so, for one, I'm going to head for home," observed K.K.
There was a general exodus, and the famous fence was soon abandoned by the entire group of boys.

They started off by twos and threes, with the general drift of conversation circling around the one great subject--the meeting to be called for Saturday night in the school, at which the report of the committee would be made, together with an announcement as to their choice as to candidates to be tried out for the various positions on the season's team.
Hugh and K.K.walked along in company.

Hugh always fancied the Kinkaid boy, for there was something dependable about him that won the confidence of almost all his mates.