The players, having previously chosen their sides, arrange themselves between the goals, facing each other, and always having their left sides towards the enemy’s goal and their right towards their own. The ball is then thrown in the air, so as to fall on or near the wooden peg, and each party try with their sticks to drive it through the goal of the enemy.
The rules of this fine game are few and simple.
1. The game is won by the ball passing through the enemy’s goal.
2. The ball must be struck through the goal with the stick, not thrown or kicked.
3. Each player shall strike from right to left, and any player infringing this rule is liable to the penalty of a blow on the shins from any of the opposite side.
4. Each player shall remain on his own side, and if he crosses to that of the opponents is liable to the same penalty.
5. No player shall raise the head of his stick higher than his shoulder, on pain of the same penalty.
6. The ball may be stopped with the stick, or with any part of the person, provided that the intervening player is on his own side.
7. If the ball be kicked or thrown through the goal, or if struck beyond the goal-lines, it is to be fetched by the junior player of the side who struck the last blow, and gently thrown towards the centre peg.
8. Any player wilfully striking another, except when inflicting the penalty contained in [rules 3], [4], and [5], is immediately to be excluded from the game.