Johnny got his base and Larke got two,
This was in the sixth and brought Johnny through,
The eighth saw Cap. make another accrue,
Score two. Score two.
Listen to our lack of woe.
The rest of the innings showed us nothing new,
Each side to bat and each side withdrew,
The batters the pitchers couldn’t subdue,
Hip Huroo. Hip Huroo.
Listen to that tale of woe.
What of the team that Jefferson grew?
Licked by Lowell of Emerald hue,
Another game and its mission is through.
They 1, We 2,
Wait for the next tale of woe.
As Ty sang the other boys gathered round him and as most of them knew
the tune they were presently crowding close, looking over his shoulder
at the words and joining in. Then they made copies of it and sent them
by the porter into the other cars of the train. Pretty soon everybody
on the train either had a copy or had learned the thing by heart and
whenever they stopped at a station they would all get out on the
platforms or lean out of the windows and introduce the new song to the
crowds at the stations, always leaving a few copies behind. By the time
they reached Lowell, early in the evening, Robb’s doggerel song had
been sung from Cleveland to Lowell and found its way the next day into
most every big paper in the country, so that almost every Lowell man in
the land knew it within twenty-four hours after it was composed.
Presently the train pulled into the station at Lowell. The boys looked
out at the mob that was there to welcome them. Hal and Hans thought
of the former return to Lowell when Hans had brought him back. This
was a different kind of home coming. There was no walking or riding in
carriages that night. It was shoulders for the team, surely, and they
prepared for it.
The crowd at the station was singing the Lowell songs and yelling
and cheering, but presently as the team and the others on the train
appeared, the latter began singing Robb’s “Peach Song” again, and the
crowd stopped to listen. They heard it, they seemed to drink it in,
they learned it all at once, it seemed, for presently they were all
singing this rather dirge-like chant of a Lowell victory.
Hughie tried his best to get the team away from the crowd, for they had
a hard game ahead of them next day, but he gave it up finally, saying
only, “All right boys, do as you please with us but don’t hurt us;
we’ve got to lick them again to-morrow.”
Then they grabbed Hughie, lifted him upon strong shoulders, corralled
the rest of the boys in a similar way and through the streets of the
old college town they took them, a happy, joyous procession, the
band in front playing, and the horns blowing. Finally they were let
go to their homes where they could get another refreshing sleep in
preparation for the second and perhaps final struggle which would take
place on the morrow.
[Illustration: “They grabbed Hughie and lifted him upon strong
shoulders.”]
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