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Sample ## Take a look inside WINNING HIS GAME By Ralph Henry Barbour Purple Pennant Series The Lucky Seventh The Secret Play The Purple Pennant Yardley Hall Series Forward Pass Double Play Winning His Y For Yardley Around the End Change Signals Hilton Series The Half-back For the Honor of the School Captain of the Crew Erskine Series Behind the Line Weatherby’s Inning On Your Mark The “Big Four” Series Four in Camp Four Afoot Four Afloat The Grafton Series Rivals for the Team Winning His Game Books not in Series The Brother of a Hero Finkler’s Field Danforth Plays the Game Benton’s Venture The Junior Trophy The New Boy at Hilltop The Spirit of the School The Arrival of Jimpson D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, Publishers, New York Copyright, 1917, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Dud Wonders 1 II. The Entering Wedge 13 III. 29 Lothrop 25 IV. A Chance Meeting 36 V. Dud Loses His Temper 49 VI. First Practice 59 VII. Ben Myatt Advises 69 VIII. A Wild Pitch 81 IX. Jimmy Takes Charge 93 X. The Challenge 104 XI. With the Scrubs 118 XII. On the River 130 XIII. Confession 138 XIV. Marooned! 148 XV. Dud Serves Them Up 160 XVI. The Track Meet 172 XVII. Baseball, Tennis and Oysters 184 XVIII. Dud Goes to the Rescue 192 XIX. Back to the Bench 207 XX. Jimmy Encourages 219 XXI. On the Mound 230 XXII. Dud Comes Back 240 XXIII. Ben Tells a Secret 253 XXIV. The First Game 264 XXV. Left Behind 274 XXVI. The Borrowed Hand-Car 286 XXVII. Winning His Game 301 THE ILLUSTRATIONS “The ball, curving inward, met his bat fairly and screeched off into short center” Frontispiece FACING PAGE “‘You’re a sneaky little bounder, that’s what you are!’” 38 [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fwinning-his-game) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. 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