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Title: Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Release date: March 15, 2014 [eBook #45142]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WEATHERBY'S INNING: A STORY OF COLLEGE LIFE AND BASEBALL ***

WEATHERBY’S INNING

BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

Each, 12mo, Cloth, Illustrated.

Weatherby’s Inning.
Illustrated in Colors. $1.20 net; postage, 12 cents additional.

Behind the Line.
A Story of School and Football. $1.20 net; postage, 12 cents additional.

Captain of the Crew.
$1.20 net; postage, 12 cents additional.

For the Honor of the School.
A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport. $1.50.

The Half-Back.
A Story of School, Football, and Golf. $1.50.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

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

title page 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