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`` You know the best team always wins . '' `` We beat last year . So this year it 's their turn , '' Angela teased . The next day the visitors began to arrive on the noon train . All morning the girls had been busy decorating the gym and practicing songs . By luncheon time everything was ready , and the Fenwick school team arrived in one big carryall , followed by another , filled with their friends and well-wishers . Polly , as captain , was so busy with her duties that she had only a minute now and then to think of the game .