Fielding practice.1

 Quite  apart from anything  that a coach may achieve by  instruction and  organized  practice, boys can do a very  great  deal  for  themselves if only  they  are keen  enough or made keen  enough to keep on playing  about  with the  ball and  so  learning ‘ball sense’. Even a very  small boy by himself  can  learn  to stop  and catch  a ball  by throwing it  against a wall and to  throw it  accurately  by  aiming  at a  target  chalked  on the wall. Similarly,  the  coach should  encourage all his  boys  to  keep  practicing   among  themselves  when he  is otherwise  engaged, suggesting that  they  should  follow the  lines of  organized  practice and  competition  on which  he is trying  to train  them.