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Title: Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant

Author: Hugh S. Fullerton

Illustrator: Charles Paxson Gray

Release Date: April 18, 2010 [EBook #32044]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JIMMY KIRKLAND--PLOT FOR PENNANT ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "Now kick his shins"]

JIMMY KIRKLAND

AND THE

PLOT FOR A PENNANT

BY

HUGH S. FULLERTON

ILLUSTRATED BY

CHARLES PAXSON GRAY

PHILADELPHIA

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1915, by

JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

To

CHARLES A. COMISKEY

The man to whom, more than all others, the honesty
and high standard of professional baseball is
due, this little volume is dedicated with the sincere
regard of a student to his preceptor.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. PANTHERS OR BEARS?
II. A MIRACLE CALLED MCCARTHY
III. HOPE FOR THE BEARS
IV. "KOHINOOR" MEETS BETTY
V. THE TEMPTER
VI. ADONIS MAKES A DEAL
VII. MCCARTHY MEETS HELEN
VIII. IN THE DEEPER WATERS
IX. BALDWIN GETS INTO THE PLOT
X. WILLIAMS CAUGHT IN THE NET
XI. MCCARTHY IN DISGRACE
XII. MCCARTHY DEFIES BALDWIN
XIII. MCCARTHY BALKS THE PLOTTERS
XIV. "TECHNICALITIES" ON THE JOB
XV. BALDWIN BAITS A TRAP
XVI. MCCARTHY MAKES A CALL
XVII. THE FIGHT IN THE CAFE
XVIII. TWO MISSING MEN
XIX. SWANSON TO THE RESCUE
XX. HIDDEN FOES
XXI. FAIR PLAY
XXII. A VICTORY AND A DEFEAT
XXIII. KIDNAPPED
XXIV. BAITING A TRAP
XXV. MCCARTHY DISAPPEARS
XXVI. BALDWIN SHOWS HIS HAND
XXVII. SEARCHING
XXVIII. WILLIAMS STANDS EXPOSED
XXIX. FOUND
XXX. A RACE TO SAVE THE DAY
XXXI. THE PLOTTERS FOILED
XXXII. REJOICING

ILLUSTRATIONS

"NOW KICK HIS SHINS" . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

BALDWIN STARED AT THE SLENDER YOUTH

THE MEN LEAPED OUT

"FOURTEEN MILES IN TWENTY-ONE MINUTES"