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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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WIRING, OR HIDING, NEXT BALL, B BEHIND ARCB(Dopp Kxr -isual stroke of mallet).
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U GETTING POSITION IN THE CAGE BY SPLIT SHOT SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 13 they are cheapest in the end. The ordinary game for Tom, Dickand Harry will find a well-made wooden ball to be in keepingwith their expertness, and later on, as general play increases inexcellence, a better ball can be secured. THE STAKES.The stakes may be of any hard wood, about one and one-quarter inches in diameter set at the middle of the court justoutside of the playing line and projecting above the court onlyan inch and a half, so as to allow a ball to be shot from in frontof it in any direction. THE MALLETS. Here is opportunity for the display of taste and expenditureas well. At the beginning the mallets found in our ordinaryequipment will be found to answer all purposes. The price list,however, shows varying qualities of excellence, and the expertplayer will always have his own mallet, his favorite, as a billiard-ist has his own cue, and so he takes it with him and deems it adecidedly individual asset,

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