me to catch a ball returned from a corner, because every such
catch scores.

A ball caught on the center base is, of course, a return ball from the
corner to which a predecessor threw it, and must be a fair throw,
whether sent by one of the opponents' guards or his own goal keeper.

It may make clearer the rotation of the play to illustrate as follows:
The game opens with Number One ready on the center base belonging to
his team. His group of guards, that is, those bearing the odd numbers,
are guarding the corner behind him on the right-hand side of the
field. He therefore throws the ball on the referee's signal to the
corner goal keeper for his team at the opposite end of the ground on
the right-hand side. Immediately that he has thrown the ball, he steps
back among his group of guards bearing the odd numbers, and Number Two
of his team, who belongs to the group of guards on the left-hand side
of the field, steps forward at once to the center base. Meanwhile, the
ball may have been caught by the goal keeper to whom it was thrown, or
by one of the guards surrounding him. It is at once tossed back to the
center base from which it came, and Number Two guard should be there
to catch it.

Number Two then throws the ball to the goal keeper for his team on the
left-hand side of the ground. Whoever catches it at once throws it
back to the same throwing base, and Number Three should be there to
receive it, Number Two having returned to the ranks of his guards. So
the game goes on, the guards each taking a turn at the throwing base,
and each throwing the ball to the corner goal keeper on his side of
the field.

Meanwhile, the same sort of game is being played by the opposite team,
two balls being in play at once, and each guard taking part in each
game for each team, according as he is guard around an opponent's
corner goal or a thrower from the center base to his own goal men.

Each goal keeper and thrower must keep one foot in his goal or base.
It is thus permissible for a goal keeper to step out of his goal with
one foot, or lean far out of the goal to catch the ball. Of course the
best kind of a throw to a goal keeper is a high curved ball that will
go over the heads of the guards and fall within his goal. No guard may
step within the goal he guards.

Violation of the rules about overstepping territory constitutes a
foul, and scores for the opposing team.

Very alert and rapid play is needed to make this game a succe