But they didn't seem to be scared, for one man caught the horse and let it out of the ring, and the man who handled the rope tied it to the center pole by a half hitch, and the fellows all went into the dressing room to play cinch on the trunks, leaving pa hanging there.

At last he swung to the ground and tightened the front cinch of his saddle.

" "But every one of you is of the opinion that we are going to have a cinch with the freshmen.

"However, I guess we aren't going to have any cinch to-day," joined in Midshipman Waite, from another table.

"If a dead cinch at ten to one, all fruited up for next week, the kind of thing you don't hand on to your own brother, would be any use to youNo?

The kid and his pal, that young edition of Edison by the name of Billy Brown, got the thing cinched over their radio.

"Of course you can beat me drivin' without half tryin', George, an' if Spot's feet wasn't so big, an' Queen didn't have such a rotten disposition, an' Baldy knew he was alive, it 'ud be a regular cinch for you.

On September 1 Boston's lead was thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the American League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility of losing it.