WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

LESLIE CRUMP

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1923

Copyright, 1923,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
The Quinn & Boden Company

BOOK MANUFACTURERS
RAHWAY NEW JERSEY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I[Foul!]1
II[The Fight in the Dark]9
III[Forced Out]18
IV[On His Own]25
V[The Cub Reporter]35
VI[With the Wreckers]45
VII[The Wreck]49
VIII[The Victim]58
IX[To the Rescue]64
X[One Hundred Thousand Dollars]70
XI[Back to Pennington]79
XII[“All Out for Baseball”]85
XIII[“You, Too, Thatcher”]94
XIV[Indoor Practice]100
XV[All Out for Baseball]120
XVI[The Scrub Team]131
XVII[A Stiff Schedule]148
XVIII[On the Bench]157
XIX[Gould Is Set Down]167
XX[Fire!]177
XXI[Third Base Thatcher]198
XXII[Treachery?]210
XXIII[Voices]229
XXIV[The Big Game]250

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