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ACKSON was a long, lean, sinewy fellow who overtopped Edward by three inches. In the first line-up he crouched, swinging his big-boned, rangy arms, and eying Edward with  a deliberate and concentrated look somehow  more menacing than his swinging arms and  defiant posture. He was evidently not one who would lose his head or waste his energy. Edward in that first moment felt a sudden fear and resolved that he must gain self-confidence by overpowering his man at the start,—getting the jump on him.

In that he succeeded; high-strung and well drilled in his position, he was more quickly  awake to the game than his more phlegmatic  opponent. From the very first he was putting every ounce of his strength into the play, and  so long as he was holding his man, he did not