parate guard score, each ball that a guard catches and holds
scoring for his team. This scoring for catches by the guards has the
advantage of calling for especially active work from the guards, with
much jumping in it, and leads to skillful play for catching the ball
so as to hold it instead of merely touching it.

START.--The game starts with Number One of each team in his respective
throwing base in the center, the guards being disposed in one or two
ranks around the goals they are to guard. Each center baseman holds a
ball, which he puts in play at the referee's whistle, or other signal,
by throwing to one of the corner goal keepers of his team.

Each guard, as he becomes thrower, throws only to the corner on his
side of the field. For instance, the guards bearing odd numbers being
on the right side of the field, when player Number One throws from the
center base, he will throw to the corner man on the right. Similarly,
when player Number Two takes his turn at the throwing base, he will
throw to the corner goal on the left-hand side of the field, as his
party of guards are stationed at the left-hand side.

RULES AND POINTS OF PLAY.--The game opens with guard Number One in the
center base, ready to throw the ball to the corner. Each thrower has
but one throw at a turn, whether it be successful or not. Immediately
that a thrower has tossed the ball, he steps back to his place among
the guards, and the guard bearing the next number steps into the
throwing base. The players must keep their own watch for turns to do
this, and each should therefore observe at the opening of the game
which guard bears the number next before his. This will be a player in
the opposite division of guards of his team, as the odd numbers are
guarding one corner and the even numbers another.

When each player of a team has thrown from a center base, the numbers
begin over again in regular rotation. Thus, if Number Sixteen be the
last thrower, Number One follows him.

Whoever catches a ball thrown to a corner, whether it be the corner
goal keeper or one of the guards surrounding him, throws the ball
immediately back to the center base, supposedly to the next player,
who should have stepped at once to the base when the previous thrower
left it. Should this next player not have reached the center base in
time to catch the ball, he picks up the ball and throws it to the
proper goal keeper; but it behooves a player to be at the center base
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