"Well, you turned the trick, old man!" declared Manager Watson, when, a few days later, the team was on the way back to St. Louis. "You did it. I felt sure you could."
"Well, I didn't, at one time," was the rejoinder. "My arm started to go back on me."
"Well, there's one consolation, Shalleg and his crowd will never get another chance at you," went on the manager. "Now take care of yourself. I'm only going to let you play one game—the closing one at St. Louis. We won't need our stars against the tail-enders."
And the Cardinals did not, winning handily with a number of second string men playing.
"Where are you going, Joe?" asked Rad, as they sat in their hotel room one evening, for Joe was "dolling up."
"Out to a moving picture show."
"Moving pictures?"
"Yes. That film of the exhibition game we played in Philadelphia is being shown in town. Come on up."
"Sure," assented Rad; and as they went out together we will take leave of Baseball Joe.
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