Garry Grayson at Lenox High

"I don't think we have a Chinaman's chance of making the team our first year in high," he replied. "Lenox will have plenty of material, good seasoned material, to draw on from t...

Bill nodded and brought the boat sharply about. Garry poised on the edge of the deck for a moment and then dived into the transparent water, closely followed by Rooster Long.

Such an outburst from good-natured Bill Sherwood was startling. His companions looked at him with surprise. On the face of it, his wrath against Jerry Cox seemed unfounded. This...

The shock and the hurt must have been considerable. But apart from this, insult was added to injury by the mud on the ball that spattered over the man's immaculate shirt front a...

"I thought not," replied Garry, with a touch of sarcasm. "Then if you don't want me to spill the whole story, beat it out of here and keep going. And more than that," he added,...

While Nick, who had caught most of the water, was wiping it from his sleeve, Garry leaped around the corner. There, as he had more than half expected, he encountered the grinnin...

The interchange lasted only a second, but it was long enough to assure Garry that it would be a difficult task to erase from the mind of Trompet Shrugg, teacher of English, the...

The clock seemed to lag dreadfully as the hands made their way to two-thirty, but they got there at last, and then the eager Garry and his chums made a dash for the gymnasium wh...

Tom Allison was called next, to fill the post of fullback, and Pete Maddern went in at right tackle. Then the coach shifted about some of the old players on the scrub team and c...

"Oh, you make me sick," came in another voice, lower-toned but angry, the voice of Bill's older brother, Frank. "Do you think I'm going to have a kid like you bossing me? The cr...

But in the days that followed there were many times when Garry was inclined to believe that Rooster had struck it right. Trompet Shrugg certainly "had it in" for Garry, and lost...

Practically all of the Lenox High students were on the field that day, reinforced by a sprinkling of boys from the grammar schools who had come to see how their old-time favorit...

"We're still ahead," Nick agreed with Rooster, but with well-founded anxiety in his tone. "But look where they'll be when the next period begins. Only six yards to go and three...

Ella Grayson gave a little squeal as Garry came into the living room that afternoon. She had of course seen the game, as had every other high school girl, but this was her first...

Garry Grayson flushed to the ears. The attack was so venomous, so unwarranted, that he was hardly able to believe that he had heard aright. His eyes blazed as they encountered T...

For the rest of that first period it was a case of seesaw, first one and then the other of the teams getting the ball, but neither being able to make any notable advance. The re...

Like a flash Garry Grayson threw off his blanket and sped out into the field. His heart was beating like a triphammer. He was really playing on the first team! He was playing in...

"Bill knows what he's talking about," broke in Ted, who, with a number of other boys, had been watching Garry's face with amusement as the news was imparted to him. "It's straig...

"What?" fairly shouted Garry. "Theft? Frank Sherwood a thief? Oh, Dad, he can't be! He's been wild and has been running around with that poolroom gang, but he'd never do anythin...

"Look here, Bill Sherwood!" exclaimed Garry, as he threw an arm over his friend's shoulder. "If you ever say a thing like that again, I'll slug you, big as you are. You're the b...

"Right you are," agreed Ted Dillingham. "If Rankin hadn't made that fumble, we'd have scored, sure. And if Bellows had made the right kind of a tackle, he could have downed Bart...

The air resounded with cheers from the frantic Lenox rooters as they poured down over the field, hoisted Garry on their shoulders, despite his laughing protests, and carried him...

"Seems to me that there'd have been flowers at your funeral, Lent Stewart, if Garry Grayson hadn't saved your life," returned Jerry coolly. "And now here you are trying to beat...

"Not yet," answered Jerry. "But I'm looking for it with both eyes. I need it badly, too, because there's been sickness at home and my father's out of work. Well, so long, fellow...

"Stop your scrapping, you two," commanded Mr. Grayson, with a smile. "The fact is that what Garry found out yesterday is of great importance. I'm sure that Jerry Cox is telling...

The bruising battle had not been without its casualties. Knapp in the last mix-up had twisted his leg and could barely more than limp. Painter at right guard was badly winded. S...