# Rule 5 Hinders (Deshong Four-Wall Rules, 1903, historical)

> **Historical rulebook: not the current rules.** The current rules are here: https://handball.theperfectship.com/rules/four-wall/

A hinder is when a ball strikes your opponent and retards it from reaching the front wall. For instance, if the recoverer of service should strike either of his opponents with the ball on the way to its destination, it is termed a hinder. If said recoverer, however, strikes his partner instead of an opponent, it is an ace against him. Then, again, if the server should be hit by his partner’s ball, it is a hand out. A great many of these hindrances are accidents, pure and simple, but in some instances they can be avoided, and if, in the opinion of the referee, the hinder was intentional, an ace can be counted against the side committing it, or a hand be declared out, just as the case may be. A server at work frequently hits his partner while standing within the ace line; this is also called a hinder. If a ball from a server strikes either of his opponents, before or after bounding, it becomes nonplayable and is counted an ace.

## Mentioned here

- [Server](https://handball.theperfectship.com/server.md)
- [Receiver](https://handball.theperfectship.com/receiver.md)
- [Partner](https://handball.theperfectship.com/partner.md)
- [Opponent](https://handball.theperfectship.com/opponent.md)
- [Referee](https://handball.theperfectship.com/match-referee.md)
- [Hinder](https://handball.theperfectship.com/hinder.md)
- [Front wall](https://handball.theperfectship.com/front-wall.md)
- [Short line](https://handball.theperfectship.com/short-line.md)
- [Ball](https://handball.theperfectship.com/ball.md)
- [Hand-out](https://handball.theperfectship.com/hand-out.md)
- [Ace](https://handball.theperfectship.com/ace.md)
- [Wall](https://handball.theperfectship.com/wall.md)

How this rule changed: [wording in every rulebook](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/clause-history/side-fourwall-american-deshong/5.md)

## Relationships

- Server relates to Partner: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Front wall: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Short line: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Ball: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Ace: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Wall: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Partner relates to Front wall: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Ball: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Ace: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Ace: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Ace relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- No link to the other terms shown: Opponent, Receiver, Referee, Hand-out, Hinder.
- 10 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.

Rulebook: [Deshong Four-Wall Rules, 1903](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/deshong-fourwall-1903.md)

Source: [M. W. Deshong], Handball and How to Play It (American Sports Publishing Co., ©1903), pp. 12-18 (Library of Congress, LCCN 04000015); reprinted from the same type in M. Egan, Hand Ball and How to Play It (©1914 printing, LCCN 13015574), pp. 12-18. Public domain.