CROQUET.
Authorities differ with regard to the regulations of this regal pastime, In an old book of French sports, however, the following account of the game is given : — " This game, which is said to have been played by the Gauls, our ancestors, was so generally played in former years that the greater part of the promenades adjoining many of our towns consisted of a long avenue, termed the mall, because it was set apart for this game. The players stood at one end of the mall, and endeavoured to strike the ball by hitting it with a mallet through a ring. Whoever first succeeded in doing this, won the game." On the death of Charles 11., all traces of this pastime soon became lost in England, until about thirty years ago, when a game sprang up in Ireland known as crokey, in which the operation of cracking the balls seemed to be the chief feature of the game, since the hoops were almost left to themselves, and the cracking was considered of most importance. The game soon found many admirers, and was encouraged by ladies, who took part in ft?.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1241, 11 September 1875, Page 19
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190CROQUET. Otago Witness, Issue 1241, 11 September 1875, Page 19
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