What was Garry's surprise to feel the arms of the other boy close about him in a grip that seemed to be made of steel! Garry's arms were pinioned close to his sides. He was powerless to make a move to save either himself or the fear-crazed lad who seemed determined to drown them both. Garry heard a cry from Bill Sherwood and knew by the sound that the motorboat was being turned around and headed toward the spot where he struggled vainly to rid himself of that iron clutch around his shoulders. Garry Grayson had been born and brought up in the thriving town of Lenox, a place of about fifteen thousand inhabitants, situated on the Sheldon River about two miles from Bass Lake. He was now about thirteen years old, a frank, likable, courageous boy, a leader in the sports of his age, and extremely popular with his mates. His father was Joseph Grayson, a prominent lawyer of the town and active in its civic life. His mother was a refined, gracious woman, to whom her son was devoted. Garry had a twin sister, Ella, a pretty, merry girl, who teased her brother unmercifully, though in fact she was very fond and proud of him. Among Garry's closest friends were Ted Dillingham and Nick Danter, whose fathers were partners in the largest department store in town. Others with whom he was on the most friendly terms included Tom Long, otherwise Rooster, and Bill Sherwood. All of them had been on the football team of the Hill Street grammar school, which had won the championship from similar schools in the town, and their enthusiasm for the game had still further cemented their friendship. Now they had graduated from the intermediate school and were preparing to enter the Lenox high school in the fall. They had found the road to the championship no easy one. There had been traitors in their own school who had done their best to have Hill Street lose. Chief among these had been Chatwood Johns and Bud Warding who were disgruntled and envious because they had been put off the scrub team for playing dirty football. There was, too, another enemy, Sandy Podder, a vicious, dissipated pupil of the Lenox high school, who had caused Garry and his chums no end of trouble. How Garry Grayson and his teammates overcame all obstacles; how, with the aid of a gypsy girl, they exposed a mystifying conspiracy--these and other exciting incidents are narrated in the first volume of this series, entitled: "Garry Grayson's Hill Street Eleven; or, The Football Boys of Lenox." And now to return to Garry in his desperate plight as he was seeking to rescue the boy who had been thrown into the lake from the wrecked motorboat.