“Pinkney leads! Hosmer has dropped away behind!”
“Pinkney first and Jerry Upton second!”
“Villelet is crawling up!”
And so the shouting went on. The end of the course was in sight. How the oarsmen were pulling! But now look at Jerry.
How like a flash his back bends! How powerful is that broad stroke! How quick his recovery!
In vain Pinkney tried to hold his lead. Jerry means to win and nothing can hold him back.
He fairly flies past Pinkney and comes in a winner by a length and a half. His friends go wild.
“Hurrah for Jerry Upton!” shouts Harry.
And the cheers echo and re-echo along the water and back to the distant hills.