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Updated: June 21, 2025
Well, I won't run for the place, so it'll be Homans. He's the man to captain us, that's certain. Graves thinks, though, that he can pull the wires and be elected captain. He's way off. Besides, Peg, he's making a big mistake. Worry doesn't like him, and when he finds out about this break in training we'll have a new third-baseman. No doubt Blake will play the bag.
"How about it, Roy?" queried Dale. Homans was visibly affected by surprise, pleasure, and something more. While he hesitated, perhaps not trusting himself to reply quickly, Stevens took a giant stride to the fore. "Homans, we've got a hunch that Wayne's going to win," he said, in a deep-bass voice. "A few of us have been tipped off, and we got it straight. But the students don't know it yet.
On the other hand, I can see in my mind's eye to-day, as clearly as I did during the game, a punt by Sheppard Homans, the Princeton fullback, which started over the battling lines into Pennsylvania territory, slowed up, hung for an instant in the air and then was swept back to a point approximating the line from where it started.
"Oh, you will?... Say, you go down to your room now, and stay there till time for lunch. Study or read. Don't think another minute about this game." Ken strode soberly out of the room. It was well for Ken that he did not see what happened immediately after his exit. Worry and Homans fell into each other's arms. "Say, fellows, how I hated to do it!" Worry choked with laughter and contrition.
It's been a long, hard drill for you, Worry, but we're in the stretch now and going to finish fast. We've been a kind of misfit team all spring. You've had a blind faith that something could be made out of us. Homans has waked up to our hidden strength. And I go further than that. I've played ball for years. I know the game.
Reddy, be careful of your ankles and legs to-day. After the meet next week you can cut loose and run bases like a blue streak." Dale stepped forward, earnest and somewhat concerned, but with a winning frankness. "Worry, will you let Stevens and me sit on the bench with the boys to-day?" Worry's face took on the color of a thunder-cloud. "I'm not the captain," he replied. "Ask Homans."
Arthurs, the famous coach, has built a wonderful nine out of green material, and again establishes the advisability of professional coaches for the big universities. With one or two exceptions Wayne's varsity is made up of players developed this year. Homans, the captain, was well known about town as an amateur player of ability.
What a scare you'd throw into the varsity camp! Forget the few minutes you wore that Eagle's Nest suit." For the time being this reassured Ken, but after a while his anxiety returned. Homans had said not to mention it, and that bothered Ken. He lay awake half of one night thinking about the thing. It angered him and pricked his conscience and roused him.
This machine is also an historic character in the war. Remember it! "J.H. Nicholson" is its name. Charles Homans drives, and on either side stands a sentry with fixed bayonet. New spectacles for America! But it is grand to know that the bayonets are to protect, not to assail, Liberty and Law. The train leads off. We follow, by the track. Presently the train returns.
"And it would please me, too, for Gallagher is about as wordy and pompous as any captain I've seen." "I think you were a little hard on Ken," put in Reddy. His quiet voice drew Worry and Homans from their elation. "Of course, it was necessary to rouse Ken's fighting blood, but you didn't choose the right way. You hurt his feelings. You know, Worry, that the boy is not in the least swelled."
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