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FACING.
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axioms. Not only the single draw, or hook, or tip, but anticipating or retrieving slips by double catches, is an important part of the art of facing.

When a ball is taken up with the hand, as in Rules XIII. and XIV., it is usual to face with the nearest opponent, by throwing it straight up in the air, both men striking at it as it descends.