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Updated: June 2, 2025
Norman E. Brookes is the greatest match player the world has ever known, because he is ever ready to change his plan to meet the strategy of his opponent, and has both the variety of stroke and versatility of intellect to outguess the other the majority of times. Brookes is the greatest court general, and, in my opinion, the finest tennis intellect in the world.
It was a matching of wit against wit, the hunter seeking to take Lightfoot's life, and Lightfoot seeking to save it. The experience of other years had taught Lightfoot much of the ways of hunters and not one of the things he had learned about them was forgotten. But the hunter in his turn knew much of the ways of Deer. So it was that each was trying his best to outguess the other.
It was a matching of wit against wit, the hunter seeking to take Lightfoot's life, and Lightfoot seeking to save it. The experience of other years had taught Lightfoot much of the ways of hunters and not one of the things he had learned about them was forgotten. But the hunter in his turn knew much of the ways of Deer. So it was that each was trying his best to outguess the other.
You can outguess your opponent because you know his movements even as his body tenses to make them. You accept this without ever questioning it." "How do you know?" This was Brion's understood, but never voiced secret. Ihjel smiled. "Just guessing. But I won the Twenties too, remember, also without knowing a thing about empathy at the time.
That she had won heavily this evening he saw at once. The dangerous and impalpable flush of the gamester was on her face, and behind it burned a glow and radiance. She looked as if, having defeated men by the coolness of her wits and the favor of luck, she had begun to think that she could now outguess the world.
He tried to convince me that the oil game is altogether a man's business and that no woman could succeed at it. 'It is a contest of wits, he explained. 'You've got to outguess the other fellow. You've got to know everything he's doing and keep him from knowing anything you're doing.
With a hand on either of the boy's shoulders, he turned that browned face up to his own. "You," he murmured, weakly. "You! And Elliott said that you could outguess dear old Mother Nature herself! Well, I I'm damned!" They talked no more business at table that morning, and Allison found scant opportunity to make himself heard at all.
But how could he outguess a band of trained criminals? They would have foreseen far greater subtleties than any he could attempt. They would be so keen that the best way to take them by surprise might be simply to step up to the house, ring the door bell and enter, if the door were opened. The idea intrigued him at once.
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