Arizona republican., 1904-01-22
RING HOCKEY, A GIRLS GAME
Basket Balls Rival Needs Little Floor
 Space.

Basket ball has a rival. Its name Is ring hockey, the one new game this winter has to offer Ring hockey is q floor game and therefore best suited 10 the gymnasium: though as the floor space required is not more than forty by sixty feet. it need not be confined to school and college girls or men.
 Like basket ball il is as well suited to men players as to women: in fact men make rather more of a game of it than women do giving it the usual amount of masculine dash and brill lance. features lacking in most wo mems play. Teams for matched games are composed of six players each and the lineup is similar to that for field hockey. The field is divided into four equal parts by center line and two quarter lines. The ring is put into play from the center line by two players who stand with the ring between them. their sticks near the outer edge of the ring awaiting for the referees com mand.
 Get ready. Play"
 At this twelve pair of eyes are fixed on the rubber ring: twelve pair of hands tighten around tlse sticks they hold.
 Get Ready Play!
 Whizz-z-zi
 The ring shoots across the floor in the direction of one or the other goal with ten girls in hot pursuit The two goal tenders guard their respective goals. toward one of which five girls are bent on driving the ring. with five girls on the other side are trying to prevent it.
 Back and forth across the floor in every direction slides the ring. always the ten girls in pursuit. Perhaps if they were very scientific about it there would be less of a scramble after the ring, and some would stand back on each side and help 10 guard the goal or when they got near the ring would not try to make the goal every time but would pass the ring on and lat another player in better position slide it through or pass it on to the next: but the fact is that girls have not been playing team games long enough to ap- preciate the value of team work. When they get excited it is a case of every fellow for himself. and the hindmost get a stroke if he can.
 And in the excitement it some times happens that two or more sticks get into the center If the ring at the same time, pinning 1t to the floor. Then the referees whistle sounds:
 "HeldI"
 Everybody stops and it is up to the referee to say which two sticks were | n the ring first, and these two play | ers put the ring in play again. no | other player being allowed within six | feet
 And in the excitement it also some l times happens that a girls foot seems | ! handler thing to send the ring along | with than the stick and here goes the | whistle again:
 Foul"
 The penalty for fowl is a free shot | 'or the opponents. the shot being made | from any place on the quarter line with | goal protected only by the goal ten Ter, no other player being allowed to | stand nearer than six feet to the one | having the free shot.
 In ring hockey there are half dozen | commandments. the breaking of any | 'f which constitutes a foul. These | Ire the commandments:
 You shall not kick or otherwise strike | he ring except with your stick. unless
 
 lse your foot to stop or kick the ring while between the goal posts.
 You shall not rush the ring, which | means advance it, by keeping the stick in the center or on the tide.
 You shall not cross-check your leighbor, which is to say, run between Ter and the ring before the collision akes place.
 You shall not tackle or hold an op- lonent.
 You shall not shoulder trip. strike, tick or in any way batter or bruise 7our neighbor, whether on your own ,r the other side
 You shall not raise your stick higher han your elbow.
 That the game is less rough than