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He was there forty ways and he did not attempt to conceal it. Crouching as was his wont, he uncoiled himself like a striking rattlesnake and flicked Ginger lightly over his guard. Then he returned to his crouch and circled sinuously about the ring with the amiable intention of showing the crowd, payers and deadheads alike, what real footwork was.
He smashes with speed and direction. It is not only in his varied stroke equipment that Alonzo is great but in his marvellous footwork. Such speed of foot and lightning turning I have never before seen on a tennis court. He is a quicker man than Norman E. Brookes and higher praise I cannot give.
"Sure thing!" said the Spider, returning his grasp, "but, bo, I'm kind o' wonderin' in me little mind what Bud's feelin' like! You sure swatted him good an' heavy. I never seen cleaner footwork, an' them left jabs o' yours " "The question is, how do you feel, Spider, and what are you going to do?" The pugilist scratched his rough chin. "Well, that's what gets my goat; I dunno quite, bo.
Hardened by their long experience in the open, the boys were able to give even Uncle Dick, seasoned as he was, something of an argument at footwork on the trail, and they used wagons by no means all the time in the hundred miles which lie between Peace River Landing and Little Slave Lake a journey which required them to camp out for two nights in the open.
Foiled by my nimble footwork, he staggered to the bed and sat down upon it. "Braced? Did I say I could bite a tiger?" "You did." "Make it two tigers. I could chew holes in a steel door. What an ass you must have thought me out there in the garden. I see now you were laughing in your sleeve." "No, no." "Yes," insisted Gussie. "That very sleeve," he said, pointing. "And I don't blame you.
It makes me warm to look at you." "Stop this one, ye tin-horn!" snarled the stranger. "Certainly," agreed Tom, blocking the blow. "However, I wish you wouldn't be so strenuous. One of us may get hurt." This last escaped Reade as he blocked the blow, and again displayed a neat little bit of footwork. "Let's see you stop this one!" taunted the bully. "Certainly," agreed Tom, and did so.
"Now, stand up and let us see how good your quick counter is," laughed the yearling, dancing about. Butler's footwork was fine and fast, but Greg, watching him, only pivoted about, putting up his hands with great speed. Thus Greg blocked all but three or four lighter blows up to the time when the time-keeper's interruption came.
Gobert is delightful personally. His quick wit and sense of humour always please the tennis public. His courteous manner and genial sportsmanship make him universally popular. His stroke equipment is unsurpassed in the tennis world. I unqualifiedly state that I consider him the most perfect tennis player, as regards strokes and footwork, in the world to-day; but he is, not the greatest player.
For a while they had been up, and swapping punches face to face, lightning swift. Sounds like boxing, perhaps, but there wasn't any science about it. Feint? Parry? Footwork? Not on your life! Each of these two was trying to slug the other into insensibility, working for any old kind of a knock-out.
"It was your jabbing and footwork won you the fight, Spider, one of the best I've ever seen very little clinching and clean breakaways." "Larry sure was game all through, yes right up to the knock-out. A good, clean fighter. 'N' say, bo, I was real sorry to see him counted out." "It meant a big purse for you, I remember." "Oh, sure, I had money to burn.
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