Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Junior Trophy

The Junior Trophy. Change Signals! For Yardley. Finkler’s Field. Winning His “Y.” The New Boy at Hilltop. Double Play. Forward Pass! The Spirit of the School. Four in Camp. Four Afoot. Four Afloat. The Arrival of Jimpson. Behind the Line. Captain of the Crew. For the Honor of...

Chapters

1. Part 1

The Junior Trophy. Change Signals! For Yardley. Finkler’s Field. Winning His “Y.” The New Boy at Hilltop. Double Play. Forward Pass! The Spirit of the School. Four in Camp. Four...

2. Part 2

After the tyrants had stamped upstairs, Bert, who during the momentous period had reclined calmly on the brocaded divan, sat up, thrust his hands into his pockets and frowned th...

3. Part 3

“I was just warning him,” muttered Kid. “Of course, if you fellows want to see him fall and hurt himself, all right. But I don’t want any man’s blood on my soul. I――――”

4. Part 4

At two o’clock the big sleigh came to the door to take those who wished to ride down to the river where the annual ice carnival was to be held. A few of the older boys went on s...

5. Part 5

After that the tide of battle turned deplorably and Day made three goals, one right after another. Perkins was almost useless at cover-point and Lovell was eluded without much d...

6. Part 6

Small laughed again, quite insultingly this time. “Gee, you hate yourself, don’t you, Kid? To hear you talk anybody’d think you were a John D. Rockefeller――until he thought agai...

7. Part 7

But Kid shook his head. “They’re no good to me now,” he said sadly. “It isn’t a full box, you see. You’ve eaten one of them. Of course, if I’d known you didn’t want to pay for t...

8. Part 8

In front of the Day Team’s net “Toots” Morgan watched the puck and the players warily. He would be glad when the game was over, he told himself, for he had had plenty of work an...

9. Part 9

The track here had been cut through the side of a low hill and the banks of earth arose high on each side of him so that his footsteps on the wet ties echoed back and made him f...

10. Part 10

“Humph!” Nan placed the shoes carefully on their sides and as far under the bed as she could reach and there was silence. Finally, “Of course, if you don’t want to tell me, all...

11. Part 11

“You did, eh?” asked Kid disgustedly. “Say, you’re a regular financier, aren’t you? You and Rockefeller must look just alike at a distance, eh? I suppose you told the other fell...

12. Part 12

So Kid, seated on the edge of a chair and looking as truthful as one of Raphael’s cherubs, began at the very beginning and told everything; how he had agreed to give ten dollars...

13. Part 13

It had clouded up ominously by the time the fifth inning commenced and the House supporters were anxious for their heroes to dispose of the Day batters before they could add to...

14. Part 14

Steve laughed mirthlessly. “Gee, we’re going to be a wonderful aggregation of ball players, we are!” he said as he followed Ben up the path. “I can see Kid when a fly comes his...

15. Part 15

And, besides, just at present, Kid was much too busy. That substitute batter had insisted on prolonging the agony. With two strikes on him he refused to acknowledge himself beat...