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162 appreciation of his duty as laid down in the chapter on “.” In whatever position you are, you must become convinced that to be enticed away from your original position, more than is necessary, is the cardinal sin of a Lacrosse player. When to leave or retire, and when to remain, is beyond the appointment of any established rule. However sure a check you may be, you should never be anxious to leave your position, to check men who ought to he stopped by some other of your side. When a man finds himself a special terror to dodgers, he is too apt to undertake the checking of the entire field of opponents, thereby causing confusion in his own ranks.

Our laws allow any strength of attack at one dodger, but it is the custom among the St. Regis Indians not to interfere between two adversaries, unless at goal; so that the dodger has only one opponent at a time to avoid. This Indian play would not answer for our small fields and our improved game. We prefer trusting to the common sense of the men, and the directing genius of a Captain.

In some checks you can only use one hand, but as