7:30 A.M.
`` Say , what time does my train leave Baltimore , in the A.M. , for Eastminster ? '' `` Let 's see . '' T. Haviland Hicks , Jr. , handing the mileage-books to the shortstop , focused his intellect on the C. N. & Q. timetable . `` Oh , yes -- you leave Union Station , Baltimore , at 7:30 A.M. , arriving at Eastminster at noon ; _ it is the only train , you can get , _ to make it in time for the game , so remember the hour -- 7.30 A.M. ! Here , stuff the timetable in your pocket . '' In a few moments , the team and substitutes had been jammed into old Dan Flannagan 's jitney , and the Bannister youths on the campus concentrated their interest on the sunny Hicks , who , grinning _ à la _ Cheshire cat , climbed atop of `` The Dove , '' which old Dan was having as much trouble to start as he had experienced for over twenty years with the late Lord Nelson , his defunct quadruped . Seeing Hicks abstract a Louisville Slugger from the bat-bag , the students roared facetious remarks at the irrepressible youth : `` Home-run Hicks -- he made a home-run -- _ on a strike-out _ ! ''