CAPTAIN OF THE CREW BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR. 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. [Illustration: “Your promise!” he cried. “Quick!”] CAPTAIN OF THE CREW By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR Author of For the Honor of the School and The Half-Back _Illustrated by C. M. Relyea_ [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1912 Copyright, 1901, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. INTRODUCTION In this, as in the two preceding volumes of the series--The Half-Back and For the Honor of the School--an attempt is made to show that athletics rightly indulged in is beneficial to the average boy and is an aid rather than a detriment to study. In it, too, as in the previous books, a plea is made for honesty and simplicity in sports. There is a tendency in this country to-day to give too great an importance to athletics--to take it much too seriously--and it is this tendency that should be guarded against, especially among school and college youths. When athletics ceases to be a pleasure and becomes a pursuit it should no longer have a place in school or college life. Many inquiries have been received as to whether Hillton Academy really exists. It doesn’t. It is, instead, a composite of several schools that the author knows of, and is not unlike any one of a half dozen institutions which are yearly turning out hundreds of honest, manly American boys, stronger, sturdier, and more self-reliant for just such trials and struggles as in the present volume fall to the lot of Dick Hope. To those readers who have followed the varying fortunes of Joel March, Outfield West, Wayne Gordon, and their companions, this book is gratefully dedicated by THE AUTHOR. PHILADELPHIA, _June 19, 1901_. CONTENTS