. St. Nicholas [serial]. which he did. I have attempted to give an outline that willhelp to explain the match-player. Yet there is asomething else, a something more. And it is amotive force bigger than anything I have so farmentioned. This is a God-given quality thatcannot be acquired. It is part and parcel of thatwonderful thing we call personality. Somewhere within the human body is a dynamothat generates energy and diffuses it throughoutthe system. In some cases, all too few I regret tosay, this energy has a magnetic power so strongthat it grips not only the possessor himself, butthose with
. St. Nicholas [serial]. which he did. I have attempted to give an outline that willhelp to explain the match-player. Yet there is asomething else, a something more. And it is amotive force bigger than anything I have so farmentioned. This is a God-given quality thatcannot be acquired. It is part and parcel of thatwonderful thing we call personality. Somewhere within the human body is a dynamothat generates energy and diffuses it throughoutthe system. In some cases, all too few I regret tosay, this energy has a magnetic power so strongthat it grips not only the possessor himself, butthose with whom he comes into contact. This isthe energy which produces the match-player. Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth have it. BobbyJones, Chick Evans, and Francis Ouimet showit. Norman E. Brookes, R. Norris Williams, 2d,and Vincent Richards exude it. TheodoreRoosevelt had it in the extreme. And it is thissame personality that makes the match-player. What is the match-player? Frankly, I do notknow, for I do not know what is TWO COMRADES (SEE PAGE 794) THE MIGHTIEST EAGLE By J. HORACE LYTLE Bounded on one side by the end of civilization,and with its opposite limits crowding close uponthe edge of a vast primeval wilderness, there lies,in one of the great provinces of Canada, a thrivinglittle city of several thousand inhabitants. Tothe south, there is water and much the north, there is nothing but tall trees andtiny lakes, fearless trappers and boundless business has pushed its way into this farnorthland—just as business, in some form oranother, always penetrates to the very ends ofthe earth. To understand, one has merely to befamiliar with the old organization and formerpower of the Hudsons Bay Company. The indus-try back of this story, however, was of a far differ-ent character. The city of which we have spokenis the home of mammoth paper-mills—because therequired vast quantities of wood-pulp are avail-able almost at its doors. Spruce was the principa
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