made their first real start in High School athletics; how Dick became the star pitcher for the nine, and how the other chums all found places on the nine, either as star players or as "subs." In this volume also was told the story of Fred's moral disasters under the tyranny of Tip Scammon, Who threatened to "tell." How Dick & Co.

were largely entitled to the credit for bringing the Gridley High School nine through a season's great record on the diamond was all told in this second volume.

Dick's good fortune in getting a position as "space" reporter on "The Morning Blade" was also described, and some of his adventures as reporter were told.

The culmination of Fred Ripley's scoundrelism, and his detection by his stern old lawyer father, were narrated at length.

Perhaps many of our readers will remember, the unpopular principal of the High School, Mr.Abner Cantwell; and the swimming episode, in which every High School boy took part, afterwards meekly awaiting the impossible expulsion of all the boys of the High School student body.