A cash reward of twenty-five hundred dollars should be incentive enough to set many people to the task of finding the unfortunate man." Yet, for Dick & Co., the adventure of the afternoon before dropped very quickly into the background.

Here was Monday; on Wednesday the boys of the Central Grammar must meet the boys of the North Grammar on the diamond.

Then the first of a series of baseball games was to be played for the local Grammar School championship.
The South Grammar would also enter a nine.
Intense rivalry prevailed between the schools.

The fact that the respective nines were made up almost wholly of boys who were soon to be graduated from the Grammar Schools did not in any sense lessen the rivalry.

Each young player was proud of his own school and anxious to capture the laurels.
"Are you going to win Wednesday's game from the North Grammar, Dick ?" asked Len spencer, when that reporter met Prescott on Main Street at noon on Monday.
"Of course we are," Dick replied instantly.
"You seem very positive about it," quizzed Len.
"That's the only way to go into athletics," claimed Dick.