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WEATHERBY'S INNING




BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

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[Illustration: Perkins was speeding for second.]




  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_


  [Illustration]


  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




CHAPTER I

COWARD!


    UNIVERSITY BASEBALL.--All men who wish to try for the team
    report in the cage on Monday, February 25th, at 3.30 sharp.

    JOS. L. PER