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 It did, the next morning. It not only copied it but it enlarged on it and declared that five of the successful attempts had been made from the forty-yard line! Chester was vastly amused over the success of what he termed his diplomacy, but Morris, oddly enough, was as mad as a hatter about it.

"It makes me look like a fool," he declared. "Anyone knows you couldn't drop five goals over from the forty in twenty tries! Who started that yarn?"

He wasn't told, however. As Lanny said, they'd need Chester's services next Saturday, and he would be of far more use whole than in pieces!