Croquet and its rules (1910) (14804990513)

Identifier: croquetitsrules00jaco (find matches)
Title: Croquet and its rules
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Jacobus, Charles, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Croquet
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ling, companionship. We have known characters vastly improve by courteous com-panionship and prevailing geniality on the Croquet ground. Theold-fashioned wordy strifes and contentions, cherishing and con-tinuing ill feeling, are now unknown and aside from any bene-ficial physical advantages these features must also be regarded intaking stock of the benefits of Croquet. There is in the game of Croquet a great opportunity for dis-playing ones ability, judgment, nerve, coolness and boldness ofplay, A valuable discipline comes to the eye in connection withthe movements of the hand. But the game of Croquet is peculiar. In a game like base ball, or lawn tennis, mere quickness issometimes the great desideratum. But the deliberation that canbe manifested in Croquet has hardly a parallel in the entireround of athletic sports. GOOD INSTRUCTION NEEDED.At the very beginning there should be selected and secured, ifpossible, some good instructor and player combined (not every SPLIT SHOT ILLUSTRATED
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