Won in the ninth

CHRISTOPHER MATHEWSON THE FAMOUS PITCHER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS
THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF STORIES FOR BOYS ON SPORTS TO BE KNOWN AS THE MATTY BOOKS
EDITED BY W. W. AULICK THE WELL-KNOWN WRITER ON SPORTS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY FELIX MAHONY
NEW YORK R. J. BODMER COMPANY 1910
Copyright, 1910, by R. J. BODMER COMPANY
THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY, SALES AGENTS NEW YORK, N. Y.
To the memory of Henry Chadwick, “The Father of Baseball,” whose life was centered in the sport, and who, by his rugged honesty and his relentless opposition to everything that savored of dishonesty and commercialism in connection with the game, is entitled to the credit, more than any other, of the high standing and unsullied reputation which the sport enjoys to-day, and to the boys who love the great American game I dedicate this book.
C. M.

WON IN THE NINTH
“Eyah! Eyah! Hughie, RAH-RAH.” A wiry red-haired boy about twenty-three years old swung lightly from the train with a big valise in his hand into a crowd of college boys in caps and heavy ulsters. They gathered round him at once, and while one crowd took charge of his valise, he was lifted on to the shoulders of a half dozen fellows and carried through the streets to his rooms in Elihu Dormitory. In a twinkling his rooms and the halls outside were blocked with the lads of Lowell who had come to welcome the most popular boy in school, Hughie Jenkins.