CHAPTER XXIII.
WHO WON THE SWIMMING MATCHES?
Thanks to Len Spencer's interest in schoolboy athletics, there was a goodly crowd gathered at the river bank the next afternoon.
Many people came out in boats.

There were at least a dozen launches, including the one that bore Len Spencer, who had been chosen to conduct the races.
The owner of a two room boathouse which adjoined a long wharf had yielded to Spencer's request for a loan of this property.
In the boathouse the two school teams disrobed and donned their bathing suits.
Dave Darrin had been called upon to captain the swimming squad from the Central Grammar.

With him were Tom, Greg, Dan, Harry, Henderson and Ross.

It was as good and representative a team as Central Grammar could furnish.
Bill Rodgers captained the squad from North Grammar.

Bill had had his fellows three times in the water, and was proud of them.
Just ten minutes before the time for calling the contestants Dave Darrin led his squad from the boathouse.