o play the Whip-poor-wills.
Then the Whip-poor-wills were to play the Raccoons, and finally the
Crows and Raccoons were to meet. There was to be an hour of rest for
the baseball players between the games, and during that time there were
to be running races and jumping contests, and also a race for small
sailing boats on the lake, with crews from the three Patrols for three
catboats. Durland owned one, Dick Crawford another, and the third, the
one to be used by the Crows, was lent by Mr. Simms, the president of
the company that employed Jack Danby and Pete Stubbs.

The first event of all on the program was the baseball game between
Crows and Whip-poor-wills. The Whip-poor-wills, or the Willies, as
they were called for short, by the rooters, were not as strong as the
Crows and the Raccoons, and were expected to lose both their games,
leaving the championship to be fought out between the Crows arid the
Raccoons in the afternoon.

Bob Hart, captain of the Crows, came up to Jack Danby in the early
morning at the campfire.

"We'll let Tom Binns pitch the first game, Jack," he said, "and save
you for the Raccoons. They're saving Lawrence, too, and he'll pitch
against you. So you want to be fresh and ready for him. You play left
field. That'll give you some exercise, and won't tire your arm out."

"I think I could pitch the two games, if you wanted me to," said Jack,
"but I'll be glad to see Tom get a chance to pitch. He's a good
pitcher, and he ought to beat them easily."

So the teams lined up with Jack in left field, and the game began.

"Gee," said Pete, in the fourth inning, as he and Jack waited their
turn to bat, "we can't seem to hit their pitcher at all. Tom's
pitching an elegant game, but I thought we'd have eight or nine runs by
this time, and the score's really two to one in their favor."

"There's plenty of time to begin hitting later, Pete. No need to worry
about that yet. There's nine innings in a ball game, and a run in the
ninth counts for just as much as one we make now."

Pete Stubbs made a home run and tied the score in the sixth inning, and
after that, until the ninth there was no more scoring.

The despised Willies were playing better than they knew how, as Pete
Stubbs said, and the Raccoons, who stood around to watch the game,
began to look anxious, for they had expected to see the Crows walk away
with the game.

But in the ninth inning there was quite a break in the game. Bob Hart,