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246 when your goal is crowded. Have no trepidation about cutting emphatically, despite the proximity of opponents. We never considered a deliberate blockade and ram deserving of fairer play than we got. If opponents choose to impede the freedom of your crosssecrosse [sic] in cutting, let them take the consequences as on the field. They generally give the goal-keeper short swift shots: the keeper consequently should stop balls regardless of opponents near. You cannot afford to be generous, and risk defeat.

When balls are thrown from either angle, leave as little of your goal exposed as possible. If “Home” closes in, he may strike away your crosse as you stop the ball. Whenever you are likely to be checked, invariably “cut.”

Always have both hands on the crosse when stopping any ball.

Special Practice.—If a club expects to have a reliable goal-keeper, it must give him special practical training, which he cannot get by the usual play on the field, or the little practice of ordinary games.

The very best, and equally good for all parties, is to place the flags in the centre of the field, to