The ball must be made to take a straight line, to "make a straight path" through a goal, then the game is won.

When a good shot is made, all on the side of the one who made the stroke should send up a shout.

When the goal is won the winning side should give the victory cry of the game, "Ta-be!" III DOUBLE-BALL GAME INTRODUCTORY NOTE .-- Some stories credit the Moon as the giver of this game to the women, by whom it is exclusively played throughout the United States except among the tribes in Northern California, where the men use the game.
There are indications that the Double-ball Game was known upon this continent in the remote past.
The peculiar ball employed for this game is composed of two small stuffed pouches connected by a band, or two billets of wood about five inches long, made like thick pegs with heads and ornamented on all sides with carvings; a leather thong five to eight inches long is attached at each end to the neck of each of the two billets.

Dr.Culin reports an ingenious specimen made by the Maricopa Indians of Arizona; that double-ball is made from narrow strips of leather braided to form a band, each end of which is enlarged by braiding so as to make a ball, the finished article being about eight inches in length.

(Ibid., p.665, Fig.