THE BRUTE Between the two stalwart men who fronted one another, stripped to trousers and shoes, there was not so much to choose.

Woodhull perhaps had the better of it by a few pounds in weight, and forsooth looked less slouchy out of his clothes than in them.

His was the long and sinewy type of muscle.

He was in hard condition.
Banion, two years younger than his rival, himself was round and slender, thin of flank, a trace squarer and fuller of shoulder.

His arms showed easily rippling bands of muscles, his body was hard in the natural vigor of youth and life in the open air.