DUTIES OF No. i. 45 



ride him on to the ball, and will then get his back- 

 hander in on one side or the other without any 

 trouble. It will be much better for No. i to pull away 

 about two feet from Back, and come in with a hard 

 bump, just as he is going to hit the ball (Fig. 13). If 

 this bump is accurately timed, it will seriously incon- 

 venience the opponent, and very likely put him off his 



Photo hij] [J. WOOD. 



Fig. 22. — No. I (blue) keeping out Back (white), who is attempting to 



dash through. 



Stroke. But if the two are locked together, the 

 amount of shoving No. i can do, will not prevent 

 Back from coming on to the ball at the right moment. 

 In the foregoing directions, I have tried to instruct 

 a No. I how he should play when his own side is 

 attacking, and the opposing Back is employed in 

 defending. I will now try to explain what he should 

 do when his own side is on the defence. 



