The members of the baseball squad were not by any means the only ones on tenterhooks.

Every boy in the upper grades of the school was waiting impatiently to learn who would be the winners of the championship.
Somewhat to the astonishment of the Central Grammar boys Captain Dick, on Wednesday afternoon, gave his team only a brief half hour of diamond practice.

Thursday afternoon they didn't play at all.

Instead, the nine and its subs.

went off on a tramp through the woods.
"What we want to-morrow above all," Dick explained, as he marshaled his forces, "is steady nerves.