Frank Merriwell's Chums

William George "Gilbert" Patten (1866-1945) is best known, under his pen name Burt L. Standish, for the Frank Merriwell stories. Frank was model for all later American juvenile sports fiction; he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. Frank Merriwell's Chums is the second in the series.