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the only sport where smashing your friend's ball across the lawn is the polite move.
means A lawn game in which players use mallets to knock wooden balls through a series of hoops in a set order, sometimes by first sending an opponent's ball flying.
from From the French 'croquet,' likely a dialect form of 'crochet' — a little hook or crook — pointing at the bent shape of the mallet or stick. The game caught fire in 19th-century Britain after arriving from France (and possibly Ireland before that), though its earlier ancestry tangles with older mallet-and-ball games like the French 'paille-maille,' source of English 'pall-mall.'
- roquet rule
- You may legally send opponents' balls flying away
- olympic ghost
- Played at 1900 Paris, then dropped forever
- one spectator
- That Olympics sold a single ticket
- victorian scandal
- Let women and men play together unchaperoned
- deceptive calm
- Strategy ranked alongside chess by serious players
world croquet championship — annual tournament held since 1989, won 10 times by england's stephen custodian
hurlingham club london — founded 1869, birthplace of modern croquet rules and premier english venue