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120 him to catch it, it is not likely you want to throw in the same way to the goal you are attacking. It is not uncommon to regulate the accuracy and speed of the short shots by a certain guard of the muscles, and a physical control of the wrist and arm; when the fact is, that the position of the ball on the netting is the surer guide.

It may not be generally known, even by old players, that a goal-keeper can easier judge a thrown ball, if it starts from and leaves the same part of the netting, providing, of course, that he sees the beginning and end of the throw. We have proved this a hundred times; and believe the reason is that the ball does not twist the same, and sometimes not at all, when it leaves the spot it starts from, and that the line of vision between the goal-keeper's eye and it, as it originally lies on the stick in the action of beginning the throw, is less unbroken. When a ball is thrown by one hand, at goal, from the top surface, its momentum is less, and it has no netting to roll over, and the eye quicker catches its direction; but if thrown from the centre or lower angle its momentum is correspondingly greater, and the length it rolls, as well