Whether you're on the "cool" team or the "hot" team, croquet's a great game. The following guidelines have been adapted from the official rules of the United States Croquet Association. more »
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Whether you're on the "cool" team or the "hot" team, croquet's a great game. The following guidelines have been adapted from the official rules of the United States Croquet Association. more »
Croquet is a bygone game of the past played at neighborhood parties. The game itself is not played very often today, but seeing it played in movies and television shows has sparked a renewed interest. If you have an old set in the garage or basement, brush it off, grab some friends or family and try playing a round. more »
If you're tossing around words like "wicket" and "mallet," you're probably playing croquet, an outdoor sport that started in the British Isles in the mid-19th century. Heed these guidelines for conduct. more »
The sport of croquet is a hit at most garden parties and backyard picnics, but it's also played at many competitive tournaments worldwide. Most players enjoy owning a full croquet set, as opposed to just bits and pieces, but it pays to know where your player's skill level is before buying a set.
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The key to a successful game of croquet is having an ideal playing surface. You want to ensure that your lawn is in its top playing condition. Depending upon the season and temperature your area receives, different steps must be taken to prepare your lawn for a game or two of croquet. more »
Prepare for an afternoon of mallet-swinging fun with these guidelines adapted from the official rules of the United States Croquet Association. more »
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.
History
The 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 and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon. 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 the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins. It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is one at either end of the alley. The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint Jamess Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastimehttp://books.google.co.u read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet
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