Croquet: As Played By The Newport Croquet Club

THE NEWPORT CROQUET CLUB

Sic Indus animo debet aliquando dari Ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi. Phœd. , Lib. iii, Fab. 4....

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1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by SHELDON &amp; CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York....

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PREFACE

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 n

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DEFINITIONS

Arena. —The space included by the boundaries of the croquet ground, within which a ball driven out of it is entitled to be placed. Blow. —The stroke of the mallet. A blow opposed to a push. Booby. —A ball that fails to run the first bridge. Bridged Ball. —A ball that has run the first bridge. Central Bridges. —Those in a line between the stakes. Chiefs. —The leaders of the sides, who strike for the first choice. Concussion. —The displacement of a ball by another ball. Croquet. —The title of the

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THE GROUND AND CROQUETERIE

The most important requisite for a croquet ground is smoothness of surface. Very good sport may be had on a ground slightly inclined; indeed a little practice will enable the players to make allowance for the inclination, so as to play with as much accuracy as if the surface were horizontal. But if the turf presents small inequalities, the direction and force of the stroke can never be accurately estimated. If the stroke is gentle, the ball may fall short or be turned aside. If the stroke is for

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MANNER OF PLAYING THE GAME

The game of croquet may be played by any number of players up to eight. If eight enter the game, each player must be provided with a mallet, and each will play one ball. If a less number of persons play, eight balls may still be used, one or more of the players playing two balls. In all cases there should be two sides, or parties, each of course having the same number of balls; and the balls, whether played by the same or different persons, having their turns always in the same prescribed order.

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THE RULES

1. Each ball must first be placed upon the spot and played from thence. A booby does not return to the spot, but continues to play as a booby, without the right to roquet or be roquetted until it is bridged. Hence a booby has but one blow unless that blow bridge it. It may hit another ball and be hit, but the contact never constitutes a point. 2. The mallet must be used with one hand, and the stroke must be a blow. With balls and mallets of the standard size, there is no necessity for using both

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HINTS TO BEGINNERS

1. Leave your ball as far from your enemy and as near your friend as possible. 2. If you are in advance, help your friend; if you are behind, call upon him to help you. 3. Recollect that position directly under the arch of your proper bridge enables you to command all the field in front of it. You can run the bridge and leave your own ball near any other you wish to croquet, as the run gives you another shot. It is many times advantageous to decline making any stroke from such position, and wait

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