Then the coach's expenses are heavy.
Now, the Alumni Association owns our athletic field, but a lot of lumber and carpenter work is needed there every year, making repairs and putting in improvements.

Then, when we play high school teams at a distance from here the railroad expenses eat up enormously." "And we have to play mostly teams at a good distance from here," laughed Ben Badger, "for we've played the nearby elevens time and again, and Gridley has eaten up the other fellows in such big gulps that we have to get on dates, these days, with teams so far away that they don't know much about us." "But there's plenty of money in the town," replied Dick.

"The business men have some of it.

The wealthy people have a lot of it, too.

It is a Gridley brag that the people of this city are public spirited to the last gasp.