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132 The ball seems to come to goal more suddenly from a thrower who merely uses his arms. The arms are the motive powers of propulsion, though certainly much force can be added by the body. The position in which you throw must be governed by circumstances, such as the chance and room you have, and the point to which you wish to pitch. A man who bends his body much at throwing to goal, gives goal keeper a preparatory warning where the ball is coming. We learned to know the part of the goal at which the ball would likely have to be stopped, by the position some awkward throwers assumed in the first act of pitching.

Almost any throw may be made dangerous if you like, or do not care. Nearly all old players, and too many new ones, can relate some instance of personal temporary injury from dangerous throws; and there seems something so deliberately wicked in rash methods of throwing, when men know they must hurt some one, that we wonder any player of feeling or honour would use them. No hurt is an accident when you deliberately use the means almost certain