Chapter I: Front Matter

WEATHERBY’S INNING

BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

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WEATHERBY’S INNING

A Story of College
Life and Baseball

BY
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF BEHIND THE LINE,
THE HALF-BACK, ETC.

_Illustrated by C. M. Relyea_

New York
D. Appleton and Company
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published September, 1903_

TO
ALFRED LOUIS BAURY
AGED ELEVEN

YOUNGEST AND MOST LENIENT
OF CRITICS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--COWARD! 1
II.--AN INTERRUPTION 11
III.--MR. TIDBALL INTRODUCES HIMSELF 19
IV.--CATCHER AND PITCHER 30
V.--AN ENCOUNTER IN THE YARD 39
VI.--IN DISGRACE 47
VII.--AT THE BATTING NETS 57
VIII.--THE LAST STRAW 68
IX.--ANTHONY STUDIES A TIME-TABLE 80
X.--FLIGHT 94
XI.--ANTHONY MAKES A STATEMENT 106
XII.--A FLY TO LEFT-FIELDER 120
XIII.--JOE IS PESSIMISTIC 127
XIV.--THE MASS-MEETING 139
XV.--ANTHONY ON BASEBALL 148
XVI.--JACK COURTS THE MUSE 156
XVII.--ERSKINE _vs._ HARVARD 167
XVIII.--JACK AT SECOND 176
XIX.--ANTHONY TELLS A SECRET 184
XX.--STOLEN PROPERTY 194
XXI.--OFF TO COLLEGETOWN 203
XXII.--AT THE END OF THE SIXTH 213
XXIII.--A TRIPLE PLAY 223
XXIV.--WEATHERBY’S INNING 239

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE

Perkins was speeding for second. _Frontispiece_
He leaned back, clinging to the planks behind him. 7
Anthony waved the coffee-pot hospitably. 47
“What’s wrong, Weatherby?” 99
Weatherby sprang straight upward, two feet above the turf. 238
With a gasp for breath he leaped forward. 246

WEATHERBY’S INNING