Possible Clues:

• Spread apart
• Spread out
• Spread outward
• Hurried around to lay it all spread out
• Turned out and took part in game, having joined the seconds
• How the South was in the game, all spread out
• The South was in the game, all spread out
• Extended
• The South was in the game, broadly speaking
• Sleighed, we hear, holding first position, with legs apart