The Boy Scout Fire Fighters; Or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed

awrence had tried to play on Jack, and of Jack Danby's clev

he may not have meant to do anything wrong, and

no use for him. If we told the others he'd get a

I can, Pete. Keep quiet abo

one thing I hadn't thought of. If he takes all that trou

e other fellow think you're better than he is, whether you are o

led by the program that had been map

re 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

Willies, as they were called for short, by the rooters, were not as strong as the Crows and the Raccoons, and were expect

, came up to Jack Danby in the

They're saving Lawrence, too, and he'll pitch against you. So you want to be fresh and read

said Jack, "but I'll be glad to see Tom get a chance to pi

with Jack in left fiel

't seem to hit their pitcher at all. Tom's pitching an elegant game, but I thought we'd

o worry about that yet. There's nine innings in a ball game, an

core in the sixth inning, and after that,

s said, and the Raccoons, who stood around to watch the game, began to loo

inns was thrown out. Pete Stubbs batted next, and was so anxious to make a hit that he popped up a little fly to the first baseman. But Jack Danby, with a

ought we'd never get a lead on them! They can't h

in now, because Tom Binns' pitching had been getting better every inning, and in the last two times they had been

whole game was changed in a second. Tom Binns seemed to be rattled. Try as he would, he couldn't get the ball over the plate, despite Bob Hart's efforts to st

ed anxiously at Jack, and Pete Stubbs

ter change pitchers. Tom's w

inns, who had been tremendously proud of being chosen to pitch for his team, and he

head at Pete's suggestion that he take Tom out of the box. And Tom began pitchi

fferent from what any other amateur outfielder would have thought of doing. It smacked more of big league baseball, where thinking is quick. He

ns and win the game. The only chance is to make a double play. That's why the infielders are all drawn in clos

ra

in a moment he saw the sphere sailing for the outfield, and ab

being noticed, sprinted over, and, by a wonderful jumping dive, caught the ball. Like a flash he threw it to third base, and the runner who had started thence for the plate was doubled easily. He had reached home, and there was no chance for him

of position, but if you hadn't been, that ball would have fallen fair, and Tom Binns would have lost his game. Really, though, you're the one that de

had outdone himself against the hard hitters of the Crows, in holding them down so well, and when, after an hour's rest, they lined up against the Raccoons, it seemed th

to watch the sport, came up to Jack after the Raccoons

Homer Lawrence begins pitching for them. Look at the way they beat the Whip-poor-wills, and the trouble you had with them.

hit that way, and he took a chance, because if the ball had been hit to his regular

made anyhow," said Norman, with a sneer. "And I'll bet y

ry enough to cry, almost. "We only get small salaries, Norman, and we have

to be relieved from the need of starting out when they are little more than children to earn their own way in the world, Norman had a

Norman, of whom he had heard many things that were far from pleasant. "We don't want to win money from one another, and betting on frien

at they were really qualified to be Scouts, though they had to wait for vacancies befo

orrowfully. "I like eating, but if I eat too much I

at when you get hold of something you like, you always feel that you have to eat all you can hold of it. Don't starve yo

t except when he's out this way," s

himself, although an attack on his friend angered him mo

y aside. "But don't say that sort of thing around here. Remember that you're a guest, and

t you. I will if you don't look out-I'll tell them you haven't got any rig

ut he controlled himself, and managed to let the insult

been washed and everything had been made neat and orderly, the

n hand, ready to yell his head off for the success of the Crows. The defeated Whip-poor-wills were anxious for the Crows to win, for the Raccoons had taunted them unmercifully on the poor showing they had made in their second game, and they wanted to see the team that had bea

to Bob Hart before the game. "He knows how to pitch two good curves, and he's been striking out

r fellows will do," said Bob. "

e batter didn't swing at them, the umpire would have to call them balls. Just watch him in p

s together, and we'll see how that works. I think th

o have them break away out of reach of the swinging bats. So, in the early stages of the game, Lawrence looked just as formidable as he had in the school games in which his reputation had been made. Bob Hart hims

ves-no straight, fast ball with a jump, no drop, no change of pace. The first time Jack Danby came up, in the second inning, he let the first three balls that Lawrence pitched go by, and Durland called every one a ball

faced him, but made it next to impossible for the Raccoons to make long hits off him, and

and they waited now while Lawrence's best curves went to waste, never offering to hit at any ball that didn't c

alls. Jack waited. Twice before, in the same situation, Lawrence had had to pitch him a ball he could hit and he had swung at it. And now Lawrence ex

, fooled and outguessed, went up in the air, and the Crows made six runs in that one i

n in the races and jumping contest