two o'clock
`` That 's right , ` Just ' Smith , he 's made such progress in bunting , and picking out drops and curves and fast ones , under the watchful eye of our field captain , Hugh Morgan here , that several other fellows on the nine are below him in batting average right now , and I regret to say I 'm one of the lot . '' The boy who answered to the name of Owen turned red at hearing this honest praise on the part of his fellow students of Scranton High ; but his eyes sparkled with genuine pleasure at the same time . A bunch of well-grown and athletic-looking high-school boys had left the green campus , with its historical fence , behind them , and were on their way home . It was in the neighborhood of two o'clock , with school over for the day . Just as one of them had said , a drizzly rain in the morning had spoiled all chance for that day of doing any practice in the way of playing ball . Mr. Leonard , second principal of the Scranton schools under Dr. Carmack -LRB- who was also county supervisor , with dominion over the Allandale and Belleville schools -RRB- , had consented to act as coach to the baseball team this season . He was a Princeton grad .