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Title: For Yardley: A Story of Track and Field

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Release date: March 10, 2019 [eBook #59043]

Language: English

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FOR YARDLEY


BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

Each Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.


D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK.




FOR YARDLEY

A STORY OF TRACK AND FIELD

By

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF “FORWARD PASS,” “DOUBLE PLAY,”
“WINNING HIS ‘Y’,” ETC.

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ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1911


Copyright, 1911, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published September, 1911

Printed in the United States of America


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.— A Rainy Saturday 1
II.— The S. P. M. 16
III.— A Call for Candidates 28
IV.— The Initiation 44
V.— The Challenge 59
VI.— Alf Becomes an Editor 66
VII.— The Scholiant 76
VIII.— Gerald Lies Low 89
IX.— A Midnight Escapade 105
X.— Pursuit and Escape 119
XI.— Gerald Visits the Office 130
XII.— Gerald Pays the Penalty 140
XIII.— The April Fools 148
XIV.— Mr. Collins Smiles 156
XV.— Back in Training 170
XVI.— Yardley Is Puzzled 184
XVII.— What Head Work Did 194
XVIII.— The Great Temptation 202
XIX.— A Falling Out 216
XX.— Harry Gets Revenge 222
XXI.— The Stamp Albums Are Put Away 230
XXII.— Gerald Makes the Team 241
XXIII.— Sport on the River 256
XXIV.— A Tenth Inning Victory 267
XXV.— The Dual Meet 277
XXVI.— For Yardley! 288

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    FACING
PAGE
“Wheelock cleaned the bases with a long drive over left fielder’s head” Frontispiece  
“The boy on the stone never moved”   112
“‘You’ll wish you hadn’t been so smart,’ he sneered”   220
“Alf squirmed onto one of the barrels and held the craft”   264

FOR YARDLEY