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FUNDAMENTALS
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by landing upon the ball with the chest;
third, diving upon the ball by leaving the
ground and leaping in the air, the fall
being broken by elbows and the ball;
fourth, sliding, feet foremost, and taking
the ball under the arm in passing it.
Take first a moving ball. A ball mov¬
ing away from the runner may be ob¬
tained in either of these ways—the first
is the simpler and the preferable: Let
the player run to within reaching distance
of the ball,^uddenly drop upon his knees,
as iu Fig. 4, and then gather the ball up
under his chest, "grappling it with hoops
of Bteel," as in Fig. 5.
A moving ball should not be dived for,
unless its motion has nearly ceased, be¬
cause the player is likely to either over¬
reach or under-reach it. Sliding feet
foremost is only valuable in obtaining a
ball that has gone into touch. Its value
lies in the fact that the runner cannot be
pushed beyond the hell, and he is not likely