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

New York
D. Appleton and Company
1903

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Copyright, 1903
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published September, 1903

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TO

ALFRED LOUIS BAURY
AGED ELEVEN

YOUNGEST AND MOST LENIENT
OF CRITICS

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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

tdrt">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

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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WEATHERBY’S INNING