The Yeah. Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.

This is your host, John Hagenorn.

At the top of this episode, I'd like to tell all of you

this is one of the steadiest bunch of listers

we've ever had in terms of numbers.

It's just incredible how locked in you guys are to these stories.

Thank you so much for being solid fans.

We appreciate it greatly. And please do tell a friend.

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That would make our day, and I'm sure Ken Ward would like to hear about that as well.

But anyway, the first story today, a matter of principle. This is from

Zane Gray's the young pitcher. Hope you're enjoying these and obviously you are

enjoying these stories as much as I am. The first one is called a matter of principle.

And now our story.

Ken found himself running across Grant Field pursued by a happy roaring mob of students.

They might have been Indians, judging from the way Ken and his fellow players fled before them.

The trained athletes distanced their well-meaning but violent pursuers and gained the gate, but it was a close shave.

The boys bounded up the street into the training house and locked the door till the puffing Arthur's arrived.

They let him in and locked the door again.

In another moment the street resounded with the rush of many feet and the yells of frantic

students. Murray the trainer forced a way through the crowd and up the stoop.

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