croquet

     

Croquet is a game playe 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 arena.

Trivia about croquet

  • One of the first contests open to women was this discontinued lawn game that uses a mallet
  • Game seen here in a Winslow Homer painting
  • A mallet,balls,wickets,stakes
  • In the 9-wicket version of this game, the ball goes through a pair of wickets before it hits the stake
  • In Wimbledon you'll find the "All England Lawn Tennis and" this game "Club"
  • This lawn game was once called Pall Mall, from Italian words meaning "ball" & "mallet"
  • This sport is attached to the name of the club that sponsors Wimbledon, though activities are confined to tennis
  • I'm mastering this outdoor game, but I don't use a flamingo for a mallet like Alice did in "Alice in Wonderland"