[Both Sides the Border by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookBoth Sides the Border CHAPTER 11: Bad News 14/25
Ralph Gray won the horse race, a horse which he had brought from the south being far superior, in speed, to any of the smaller border horses; although, had the trial been for endurance, it would have had but small chance with them.
The shooting was close, one of Percy Hope's men winning at last.
The quarterstaff prize was awarded to Long Hackett, one of John Forster's retainers.
At wrestling Roger bore off the palm.
Some of his opponents were, in the opinion of lookers on, more skilled at the sport; but his weight and strength more than counterbalanced this, and one after another tried, in vain, to throw him to the ground; succumbing, themselves, as soon as he put out his strength, and theirs began to be exhausted; when, drawing them up to him with irresistible strength, he laid them quietly on the ground. Oswald himself carried off the palm in a mile foot race. At one o'clock the sports were concluded.
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