CAPTAIN OF THE CREW
Each Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
- For Yardley.
- Finkler’s Field. ($1.25.)
- 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 the School.
- The Half-Back.
- On Your Mark.
- Weatherby’s Inning.
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK.
CAPTAIN OF THE CREW
Author of For the Honor of the School
and The Half-Back
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1912
Copyright, 1901,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
INTRODUCTION
In this, as in the two preceding volumes of the series—TheHalf-Back and For the Honor of the School—an attemptis made to show that athletics rightly indulged inis beneficial to the average boy and is an aid rather than adetriment to study. In it, too, as in the previous books,a plea is made for honesty and simplicity in sports. Thereis a tendency in this country to-day to give too great animportance to athletics—to take it much too seriously—andit is this tendency that should be guarded against,especially among school and college youths. When athleticsceases to be a pleasure and becomes a pursuit itshould no longer have a place in school or college life.
Many inquiries have been received as to whether HilltonAcademy really exists. It doesn’t. It is, instead, acomposite of several schools that the author knows of, andis not unlike any one of a half dozen institutions which areyearly turning out hundreds of honest, manly Americanboys, stronger, sturdier, and more self-reliant for just suchtrials and struggles as in the present volume fall to thelot of Dick Hope.
To those readers who have followed the varying fortunesof Joel March, Outfield West, Wayne Gordon, andtheir companions, this book is gratefully dedicated by
The Author.
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