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Croquet is expanding rapidly as a competitive sport, attracting many new clubs and players. This book provides a comprehensive introduction, with up-to-date information on equipment and the laws, as well as clear explanations of strokes and tactics. ... Read more

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This guide to the skilful playing of croquet is written by the President of the Croquet Association and explains basic and advanced elements of the game. He provides helpful interpretations of the laws and discussions of recent developments in approaches to tactics. ... Read more

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A beginner's guide to the equipment, terminology, and rules of croquet. ... Read more

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The Know the Game series is firmly established as the leading introduction toa huge range of sports. For 50 years they have been the first step intoa new sport for many people, children and adults alike. The series hasnow been relaunched in a new format with a modern design - making the best even better. The aim has been to make the books more accessible, and they are now packed with colour photos andillustrations, top tips and interesting facts. Each book containseverything you need to know about the sport, including equipment,rules, techniques and training tips. There's even information on how tofind a club and meet new people to play the sport with. And having beenwritten and endorsed by the sport's professional body, you can be sure that you are getting the best information available. ... Read more

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Few people have attempted to write about croquet, and those who have done so have written for either the complete novice or the expert. This left a huge gape of knowledge for the average club players to find out for themselves.

In the early 90's John Riches began a series of booklets that have aimed to fill this void.

This book has brought together and updated these writings so that they are in accordance with the modern practices.

Anyone who has any interest in croquet will find this a fascinating collection, and a must for their personal library! ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Croquet, Extreme Croquet, Macrobertson International Croquet Shield, Spooning, World Croquet Federation, Gateball, Isaac Spratt, Triple Peel on Opponent. Excerpt: Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport, which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court. Pall mall illustrated in Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891. Original image by Lauthier 1717The oldest piece of paper to bear the word "croquet" with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers' Company in London. This record is now in the English Public Records Office. In 1868 the first croquet all-comers' meeting was held at Moreton-in the-Marsh, Gloucestershire and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London. In the book Queen of Games: The History of Croquet author Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the game that took England by storm in the 1860s and which led to the spread of the modern game overseas. The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for "ball and mallet". This was the explanation given in the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, dated 1877. In his 1810 book entitled "The sports and pastimes of the people of England," Joseph Strutt describes the way Pall Mall was played in England in the early seventeenth century: "Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at th... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6643 ... Read more

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Terminally Boring
Excessively legalistic, bombastic and terminally boring. This book deserves to be consigned to the dustbin of history. ... Read more

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These are the complete and official rules for the six wicket grass croquet played in the United States under sanctioned USCA tournament formats.This is the 2006 revision of the rulebook and current as of January 2010.
The Six Wicket Croquet rules include a number of
significant, but non-substantive, changes such as reducing
redundancies, reordering of some material, improvements
in wording and style consistency, inclusion of the individual
rules in the table of contents, and a new numbering system
for the rules.
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The increasing popularity of Croquet, and the deficiencies of the existing manuals of the game, have encouraged me to give this little book to the public. The treatise of Captain Mayne Reid, to which the introduction of croquet in this country is mainly due, is deficient in system and arrangement, and affords no intelligible determination to many of the cases I have instanced in illustration of the rules of the game. The manuals published in this country are still more faulty. The rules afford no solution to half of the ambiguous cases that arise in ordinary play; and some are guilty of the strange error of allowing the "Roquet Croquet" to every ball—a liberty totally at variance with the fundamental principles of the game, and which in the hands of strong players would prolong the contest indefinitely, make[Pg iv] victory depend upon a single chance hit, and reduce the opportunities for generalship and combination to a minimum. I have dwelt at some length upon the "right of declining," and the "theory of double points;" principles which, though hinted at by Captain Reid, are left rather obscure in his book. Players will find that this power of economizing privileges adds greatly to the interest of the game, and renders many a cunning plot and counter-plot necessary. ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on August 21, 2003. The length of the article is 1957 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Croquet has its day.(Recreation)(This sport is a matter of life and death on the lawn)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: August 21, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: E5

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