Hold 'em, Wyndham!

“Mm, a bit pudgy, I’d say. But we’ll work that off you. Sit here. Except Hanbury you’re the first of the gang to report. Couldn’t keep away any longer, I presume.”

Freeburg, Connecticut is like so many other New England towns that to describe it would be a waste of time. A central street, broad and elm-shaded; two blocks of modest building...

It wasn’t quite so hot as it had been earlier in the day, and there was a perceptible movement of air across the field as Clif and Tom turned the corner of East Hall and made to...

“I know. I tried to get them to stay up for supper, but dad’s got some sort of a meeting on for this evening, and so they beat it right back. They’re coming up again in a couple...

Last year Clif had roomed in Number 17 on the floor below with Walter Treat. They had got along exceedingly well together and Clif had a real liking for Walt. So far this term h...

Tom was almost irritable when Clif confessed that he had asked Parks to the party, and Clif’s description of the chap didn’t seem to reassure him. “Sort of a queer specimen,” de...

“Swede” Hanbury’s prediction that the Wyndham cheering section would be small at Saturday’s game proved correct. The trip over the border into Massachusetts was long and costly...

Sunday evening the Triumvirate gathered as usual in Loring’s room. Tom looked rather disreputable with his left cheekbone a queer mixture of purple and yellow. Clif declared he...

They were back in Loring’s room after study, and the subject of the former discussion again occupied them. For that matter, it continued to occupy them, with increasing insisten...

They were everywhere; flaunting along the dormitory corridors, in the lavatories, on the bulletin boards, spread under window sills, tacked to innumerable trees. You encountered...

It was curious how many fellows were to be found that evening who had expected all along that Wyndham would capture the game. Indeed, it was difficult to discover any one who, n...

Clif wasn’t able to discover that afternoon whether Lemuel John had been captured by the second team, for he was pretty busy until the second came over for a brief scrimmage and...

On Wednesday Lemuel John turned up for the chess game in spite of certain infirmities consequent on two days of unfamiliar and rather strenuous exercise. And once more he won fr...

On Wednesday Loring didn’t attend practice. This was not because of inclement weather, but because a certain very distinguished physician motored up from New York in an impressi...

They talked it over that evening in Loring’s room. Since Lemuel John was on hand for a game of chess he was made a party to the conference, but his verbal contributions were few...

It was early dusk when Clif pulled up at the side of the road, shut off his engine and descended from the shabby flivver. There was still a dull glow in the western sky, but it...

It was about a quarter to seven when the news reached Mr. Frost, Assistant to the Principal at Wyndham, that a boy giving his name as Bingham had been in an automobile accident...

Tom was extremely flattering when he returned from practice. He declared that Clif’s absence from the team was universally regarded as a frightful catastrophe. He even hinted th...

Wyndham departed early Saturday morning, valiantly shouting “No Defeats!” Team and supporters left the school together, and not for a long while had the staid old village of Fre...

Wyndham returned about nine o’clock, wearied but rejoicing. Very few voices had successfully stood the strain of that last moment triumph, and it was two days before the school...

Clif got rid of some of his splints and bandages on Tuesday, although he still had to carry his arm in a sling. That afternoon Dan Farrell, the trainer, stopped to inquire about...

Clif found himself beside Lemuel John when he got back to the bench. Lemuel John was enjoying――enduring would be a better word――his first big game as a player, and he was consid...