d before. Then, more amazing still, the next man was pitched
out, the second man knocked a pop fly to the pitcher, and it was Joe
himself, coming to the bat, hit out a liner to third base, which was
gathered in by the baseman, thus ending the Giants hope of scoring.

"Well, what do you know about that!" cried Brennan. "The inning on each
side was exactly alike, with the exception that our third man out flied to
first base, while your man flied to third."

But that ended the similarity both in batting and in scoring, for in the
eighth inning the Giants added another run to their score, and held this
lead to the end, even though the All-Americans fought desperately in the
effort to tie the score.

"Oh, we had to win," said one of the Giants. "Too many of our folks
looking at us to lose."

Many members of the teams had their wives or sisters with them, and
defeat would have been galling under the eyes of the fair spectators.

Then, too, the Giants had their reputation to sustain as the Champions of
the World. On the other hand, the All-Americans were anxious to show that
even though they had not been in the World's Series, they ought to have
been--and it was a keen delight to them to make their adversaries bite the
dust.

Add to this the fact that there was a strong spirit of rivalry,
good-natured but intense, between the scrappy McRae and the equally
pugnacious Brennan, whose team had been nosed out by the Giants in that
last desperate race down the stretch for the pennant, and it is no wonder
that the crowds kept getting larger in every city they played, that the
gate receipts made the managers chuckle, that the great city papers gave
extended reports of the games and that the baseball trip around the world
began to engross the attention of every lover of sports in the country.

Joe had never been in finer fettle. His fast balls went over the plate
like bullets from a gatling gun. His fadeaway was working to a charm. He
wound the ball near the batters' necks and curved it out of reach of their
bats with an ease and precision that explained to the applauding crowds
why he was rated as the foremost pitcher of the day.

Jim, too, showed the effect of his season's work and Joe's helpful
coaching, and between the two they accounted for three of the games won by
the Giants before they reached Colorado. Two other games had gone to the
All-Americans in slap-dash, ding-dong finishes, and it was an even thing
as to which t