ite right. If he'd come right
out to me and told me he wanted to watch me pitch, I wouldn't have
minded. But that's a mean trick!"

"It won't do him much good, that's one good thing. Say, I don't
believe he's as good himself as they make out, or he wouldn't have
played such a trick. I bet he's got a big yellow streak in him."

"We'll find that out tomorrow, Pete. I hope not, because he certainly
knows how to pitch. If he does a thing like that, though, he'd be apt
to try to cheat in the game, or do something like that, I'm afraid. I
don't care, though. If he wants to win in any such fashion as that,
he's welcome to the victory. He must want to win worse than I do."

"I didn't think Harry Norman would play a dirty trick on you after the
way you saved his life, Jack. I was surprised to see him there."

"He doesn't like me. I've always been willing to be friendly with him,
even when I had to fight him up at Woodleigh. He forced me into that."

"He isn't a Scout, is he?"

"No, he doesn't like the Scouts. I guess he'll never join, either."

"He's no great loss, I guess. We can get along better without him than
with him if he's going to do things like that. I bet Lawrence won't
join either, when this game's over."

CHAPTER IV

THE DOUBLE HEADER

Pete Stubbs had wanted to tell everyone of the trick that Lawrence had
tried to play on Jack, and of Jack Danby's clever way of turning the
tables on him, but Jack dissuaded him.

"That won't do any good," he said. "After all, he may not have meant
to do anything wrong, and we'd better give him the benefit of the
doubt."

"Aw, sure he meant to be mean, Jack! I ain't got no use for him. If
we told the others he'd get a ragging he wouldn't forget in a hurry,
I'll bet."

"I guess you can stand it if I can, Pete. Keep quiet about it, because
I want you to."

"All right, Jack, if you want me to, I will. Say, there's one thing I
hadn't thought of. If he takes all that trouble to find out how you
pitch, he must be afraid of you!"

"I hope he is, Pete. That's half the battle, you know, making the
other fellow think you're better than he is, whether you are or
not--and thinking so yourself. Often it makes it come out right."

Full grown men would have been appalled by the program that had been
mapped out for the Boy Scout Field Day.

Baseball filled the morning and early afternoon. There were to be
three games in all. First the Crows were t