poor player, he may throw the ball over your head into the goal before you reach him. The probabilities too, are, that you are not as good at checking as at goal-keeping, and it is best to choose the least of two evils and receive your opponent at your flags as advised. We have lost several games by running out to meet an opponent in such a case, and only saved one. Now we always stick to our post, and trust to skill.
If the ball is thrown towards goal, and lands midway between an opponent and you.—You may if good at a dash, run out, and flat check or tip away if opponent is close. But never try experiments or run any risk, especially in a match. Sometimes too, the ball drops behind your flags, or in some spot near, which you can reach soonest. In such a case you should save your aids, and run out. Your quiet position walking the goal-crease keeps you comparatively fresh and winded for such dashes, and you have, too, the advantage of proximity to the ball, which imperatively demands that you should run out to get it. But never challenge or accept a tussel with any opponent. Point, of course, should go into goal when you leave, unless he has opportunity to move
