It would have resulted in disaster had any of Dick & Co.

had any form of serious physical weakness.
But Dick Prescott knew his boys! "Kill yourselves!" he shouted out again, as he saw the two canoes running neck and neck.

"For the honor of Gridley High School!" Right noble was the response, though flesh and blood could not stand this new and savage grilling for long.
"Wake up, Trentville!" shouted Ted Pascal, when he saw the "Scalp-hunter" gaining.

"Wake up! Let out all of your steam! Push!" Dick Prescott said no more.

His straining gaze was now fixed on the finish line.