midnight
He was never a star in the baseball game , But he won the Championship just the same -- What 's the matter with our Hicks-he 's all right ! '' `` Honk ! Honk ! '' Old Dan Flannagan 's jitney-bus , rattling up the driveway , bearing back to the Bannister campus the victorious Gold and Green nine , and the State Intercollegiate Baseball Championship , though the hour was midnight , found every student on the grass before the Senior Fence ! Over three hundred leather-lunged youths , aided by the Bannister Band , and every known noise-making device , hailed `` The Dove , '' as that unseaworthy craft halted before them , with the baseball nine inside , and on top . However , the terrific tumult stilled , as the bewildered collegians caught the refrain from the exuberant players : `` He was never a star in the baseball game -- But he won the Championship just the same -- What 's the matter with our Hicks -- he 's all right ! '' `` Hicks did what ? ''