Croquet—Men's Game
POPULAR IN ENGLAND Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 4. Lieutenant-Colonel Du Pre, chairman of the English Croquet Council, arrived from Sydney to-day with, two other members <sf the English team, Messrs, H. R. Poulter and E. L. Ward-Petley. Croquet, said Colonel Du Pro, is ne longer a game of curates and crinolines, but is a highly scientific game. In England many men play croquet, and of tho first hundred players eighty are men. It is exclusively amateur ami is essentially a player’s game. The English team will play in the New Zealand championships, beginning at Auckland next Thursday. The New Zealand team which competed in matches in Melbourne also returned to-day.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 54, 6 March 1935, Page 11
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113Croquet—Men's Game Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 54, 6 March 1935, Page 11
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