The second team was made up the following Thursday with Grover Beech in charge as captain. Toby and Warren were retained as goal-tends and ten other youths, among them Sid Creel, made up the squad. The first team squad was cut that same day to fifteen, and about a dozen unsuccessful aspirants departed to private life, or, in some cases, to seek glory on their class teams. Toby was delighted with his good fortune and turned all his thought and endeavors to the task of making himself first-choice for the position. To that end, he read every scrap of information he could find on the subject of a goal-tend’s duties, ransacking the school library and borrowing wherever he heard of a book that promised information. But it was surprising what a lot of perfectly good authors had failed to deal with this absorbing subject. Why, you could drag your finger over card after card in the library index without finding a thing worth reading! Scott, Thackeray, Lytton, Dickens, Boswell, Stevenson――not a work of advice as to how to play goal on a hockey team! Still, Toby did manage to discover a fair amount of hockey literature, and he read it all avidly and, could the position of first team goal-tend have been awarded by a competitive examination, either oral or written, Toby would have won hands-down! When he had assimilated all the information he had read he took a blue-book and wrote down what was practically a summary of it. That was Toby’s scheme for registering indelibly on his brain anything that he wanted particularly to remember. And it was a very excellent scheme, too. Perhaps Toby’s summary may be of interest to you. It will if you play hockey or expect to play it, and especially if your ambition looks toward the position of goal-tend. Anyway, here it is, just as he wrote it. “The goal-tend’s position is probably the most responsible of all. If he fails the opponents score, but if another of his team fails the opponent only wins an advantage which may not result in a score. A goal-tender should be cool-headed, plucky and very quick. Quickness is very important. He should be quick to see a shot coming, to judge where it is coming and to put himself into position to stop it. A goal-tender need not be much of a skater or stick-handler, if he has those other qualifications.