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 to play. I saw Danny Shores yesterday and he's tickled to death about it. I had to tell him why we wanted to charge admission, but he promised not to say anything about it. They're so crazy to play that they don't want any part of the gate receipts, and Danny says we can get three or four hundred people. What do you think of it?"

Morris and Gordon looked puzzled, and the latter asked: "But how the dickens can we play Danny's team here if we're going away to play Corwin the same afternoon?"

"Oh, I meant to explain that we'd play the Scrubs against them; call them the High School Second Team, you know."

"I think it will be perfectly dandy!" exclaimed Louise.

"I shall go and see it," declared Nell firmly.

"Don't see," said Morris, "why you can't get a pretty good crowd to it. Not many of the fellows will go with the team to Corwin, I guess, and they'll be glad of a chance to see a game. How much are you going to charge, Lanny?"

"Dick and I thought ten cents apiece would be enough. If we got two hundred we'd make twenty dollars. But I don't believe we'd get more than a