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ON YOUR MARK!
A Story of College
Life and Athletics
BY
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
AUTHOR OF BEHIND THE LINE, WEATHERBY’S INNING, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY C. M. RELYEA
New York
D. Appleton and Company
1908
Copyright, 1904, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published September, 1904
TO
BERT AND LILA
IN MEMORY OF
“THE BIG HOUSE”
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I.— The winner of the mile 1 II.— A visiting card 12 III.— On the cinders 22 IV.— Hal has an idea 33 V.— “Mr. Peter Burley, Blackwater, Col.” 45 VI.— “Right guard back!” 57 VII.— “The Ranch” 65 VIII.— Pete’s club table 73 IX.— The duck hunt 86 X.— Dinner for two 96 XI.—
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@45140@[email protected]#CHAPTER_XI" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">The capsized boat 106 XII.— Tommy corrects a report 120 XIII.— Pete writes home 130 XIV.— Hockey—with variations 139 XV.— In the “Corral” 147 XVI.— The indoor meeting 157 XVII.— Allan leaves the club table 172 XVIII.— An alarm of fire 181 XIX.— Pete puts the shot 193 XX.— Track and Field 203 XXI.— Sunshine and shadow 210 XXII.— A newspaper paragraph 218 XXIII.— The freshman game 227 XXIV.— “On your mark!” 239 XXV.— The last event 254
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XXVI.— “Vale” 263
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING
PAGE “Fooling?” Burley echoed. “Why, no, I ain’t fooling.” Frontispiece A white-clad form sped across the finish. 11 “Sorry you don’t approve of them.” 94 Pete tipped him over the barrier. 143
PAGE “Fooling?” Burley echoed. “Why, no, I ain’t fooling.” Frontispiece A white-clad form sped across the finish. 11 “Sorry you don’t approve of them.” 94 Pete tipped him over the barrier. 143
ON YOUR MARK