Four sets between two old gunslingers in the awkward setting of a quarterfinal made the match all the more desperate.
But in yesterday's sunny warmth of this old Navy town near the Mexican border, all those old gunslingers suddenly aged.
This is someone like one of the old gunslingers, those warriors of the High.
She gave the old would-be gunslinger a stare that might have come from Bat Masterson.
These days, disputes are settled by lawyers, who are better paid than the old gunslingers, if not as quick to get results.
For a second he looked like the old gunslinger in a hundred Westerns, strapping on his guns for a final showdown.
Of course, the follow-up had to be, why would Parcells unceremoniously dump an athletic fighter in his prime for an old, immobile gunslinger?
Their idyllic life is disrupted when his grandfather, an old gunslinger, shows up on the farm.
It starred Henry Fonda as an old gunslinger facing a final confrontation after the death of his brother.
He's like an old gunslinger out there.