Frank Merriwell's Races

ace matters moved along

ver his studies and

llege authorities would not permit it, in t

time being, but there were others, those who could

nown as Jackson's. All had been drinking freely, an

hey included a hot-headed lad named Tom Thornton, a fussy fellow called P

's, but found they could not talk privately

Jackson's, a place sometimes patronized by the stud

at they ever went there; but it was a place where a private room could be obtained in which

r, Rolf Harlow, and broken up the game by which Harlow

e ones who seemed to have sympathy with himself and F

l all had indulged very freely in wine, Thor

ll had grown more or less heated. At length Merriwell's n

to escape from his mouth as he spoke, "I agree with you, Thorn

er gave

new it," observed Tad, sarcastica

ar fellaw," declared Willis, who was too dense to catc

. "You have permitted him to avoid

d Parker. "I didn't know you were so down on him.

for himself by winning the ga

eringly, showing his

h. If any other fellow on the team had obtained the ball at that particular moment, he could have gone through Princeto

hook hi

d one or two others, besides going down the field like a wild engine, with Princeton's fastest runner at his heels and una

k on the fellow!" snarled To

I have held away-have ha

son why I invited yo

hing more in the wind than a simple

. Have another drink all around. This is on me. Pu

that communicated with an electric bell at the bar. "If w

e waiter went out, after serving the order, he left th

lass of sparkling "fizz," "here's to a bre

dr

aid Puss Parker, lowering his half-emptied glass. "It is n

ould not have obtained the opportunity when he did. If he had not obtained it then, he might not

ey can, but I

id not satisfy Thor

ancied you had more stamina than that. Next thing you'll be saying that when hi

at affair, but that is outside college sports. I did not see the race, but I have h

k in it. If he ever enters that horse in another

rnton was kicking because Merriwell has made a try for the eight, and seems to stand a goo

till Merriwell went for a place. Like Pierson, who captained the ball team last seaso

the freshman crew, he introduced the Oxford oar and the Oxford stroke. He actually drilled a lot of dummies into the use of the oar and into something like the genuine E

pped that runaway horse and rescued Fairfax Lee's daughter. Any one would have thought the fellow had done a most marvelous thing, and since the

ellow," said Parker. "How did he happen

enough to thoroughly acquaint himself w

said Horner. "His rooms are decorated with all sorts of strange weapons, tro

all in the rest of that guff. It is barely possible that he may have been over to England, but t

g most astonishing with that freshman crew. We did not have the least idea in the

that's all. If we'd dreamed we had a

uld do so much with a lot of freshmen, what might not be d

stions from any one, although I think he was a fool to throw down Flemming for Merriwell. Flem did great work on the football

s so many things and does them

e fellows are never heard from after they leave college. The fellow who takes some branch of athletics at college and sticks to it is likely

ything, and making a success of everything.

stroke when he was captain of the freshman crew. He would ape

nce on a time and endeavored to be "awfully English" ever since. "He has not cawt the Englis

't pile on the agony quite so thi

thin-blooded, white-livered creatures. Look at them! There is Bruce Browning, once called 'King of the Sophomores,' but cowed and bested by Merriwell, to be af

lie,

d sprang into the room. His eyes were flashing, and

ck Diamon