and Luke to find new pitchers. Hiram did not play on the nine, being content to manage it, but Luke was catcher and some of the friends of Joe and Tom filled regular places.
"How do you dope it out?" asked Tom of Peaches one day, shortly before the organization meeting.
"Well, it'll be about like this," was the reply. "We will all gather in the gymnasium—as many as want to—and Hiram will be in the chair. He'll call the meeting to order and state what we're there for, which everyone knows already, without being told. Then he'll ask for nominations for secretary, and one of his friends will go in. Then he'll spout about what we ought to do to win this season, and how to do it, and say we're sure to be at the head of the league and win the Blue Banner and all like that.
"Then he'll ask for nominations for players and they'll be voted on; we'll have a little chinning about money matters, Hiram may say who the first few games will be with, and it will be all over but the shouting."
"Well, won't lots of fellows have a chance to nominate players, or won't the players themselves ask to be given a chance?"
