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The New Boys at Oakdale
Morgan Scott
HE THRUST OUT HIS HAND FOR OSGOOD TO TAKE.
THE NEW BOYS AT OAKDALE
By MORGAN SCOTT
Author of
“Ben Stone at Oakdale,” “Boys of Oakdale Academy,”
“Rival Pitchers of Oakdale,” “Oakdale Boys in Camp,”
“The Great Oakdale Mystery,” etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers—New York
Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1913
BY
HURST & COMPANY
Printed in U. S. A.
CONTENTS
- I—AN ORDER DISOBEYED.
- II—THE SCORE TIED.
- III—BENCHED.
- IV—WYNDHAM’S LAST DESPERATE STAND.
- V—THE DIPLOMACY OF OSGOOD.
- VI—THE SUSPICIONS OF SLEUTH.
- VII—YOUNG SPORTS.
- VIII—A HOT GAME.
- IX—THE BLOW AND AFTERWARDS.
- X—THE LIE.
- XI—PIPER SURPRISES HIS FRIENDS.
- XII—DREAD.
- XIII—THE PROFESSOR’S APPEAL.
- XIV—PIPER PUTS IT UP TO SHULTZ.
- XV—STILL SILENT.
- XVI—THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.
- XVII—THE GREAT FEAR.
- XVIII—FLIGHT.
- XIX—THE APPARITION IN THE WOODS.
- XX—THE SEARCH.
- XXI—THE CAMP ON THE ISLAND.
- XXII—A SURPRISING CONFESSION.
- XXIII—ANOTHER SURPRISE.
- XXIV—SHULTZ SEES A LIGHT.
- XXV—INTO THE OLD QUARRY.
- XXVI—THE CONFESSION.
- XXVII—LIKE A MIRACLE.
- XXVIII—COMRADES ALL.
CHAPTER I—AN ORDER DISOBEYED.
Oakdale started the game by hammering Ollie Leach, the Wyndham pitcher, for three runs in the first inning. Indeed, it seemed that they would drive the schoolboy twirler from the slab in short order, and they might have done so only for a snappy, clean-cut double play which put an abrupt end to the fusillade of hits. When the Wyndham captain declined to make a change and sent Leach back to the mound in the second inning, the wondering Oakdalers told one another that they would finish the foolhardy southpaw then and there.
Leach, however, had steadied down a great deal, and the best the visitors could do was to squeeze in one more run, which they practically secured through a rank error by Pelty, the shortstop. At this point the successful batting of the visitors seemed to come to an abrupt end, for during the succeeding four innings Ben Stone was the only man who could hit the left-hander safely.
Meanwhile, Rodney Grant was doing some steady, clever pitching for Oakdale, which,