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	Croquet
		Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.
		There are several variations of croquet played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout (particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing fields).
		In association croquet, the winner is the player who hits a ball through all hoops and a special ending "pin" also embedded in the ground.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/cr/croquet.html (310 words)

	Robert Fulford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Fulford, O.C., (born February 13, 1932) is a Canadian journalist and essayist.
		Fulford began his career in journalism in the summer of 1950 when he left high school and went to work for the Globe and Mail as a sports reporter.
		Subsequently, Fulford rose to various editorial positions at the Globe and Mail before working as a columnist for the Toronto Star in 1959-1962, 1964-1968 and 1971-1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Fulford (380 words)

	Robert Fulford (croquet player) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Robert Fulford (born 1969) is a leading English croquet player who has dominated the sport since the turn of the 1990s.
		Fulford has a light attitude towards the game, often travelling from cheap hotel to the next because he only makes about £8000 a year from the sport.
		Robert also coaches croquet, particularly in Australia and the Chattooga Club in North Carolina.
	www.music.us /education/R/Robert-Fulford-(croquet-player).htm (417 words)

	How To Play - Advanced Play - The Super-Shot Opening
		Robert Fulford discuss the logic and tactics behind an opening where the first ball is played near the centre of the lawn.
		Against most players R should make sure to miss the corner, so a close miss on the right by K will leave a double, however if UK is unlikely to make a 3rd turn break R should try to get close enough to discourage [K to C2].
		U is croqueted as near to the N boundary as you dare such that K has about a 9 yarder from the end of B-baulk that may leave a double for Y. R goes off a yard north of IV (closer would be nice but the shot is from at least 20 yards).
	www.oxfordcroquet.com /coach/supershot/index.asp (1424 words)

	History of Croquet : Jaques America, Finest sporting and games.
		The origin of croquet is somewhat obscure - John II first glimpsed a version of it in Ireland.
		JJ II's great-grandsons John V and Christopher are as keen to encourage back-garden croquet, as they are to maintain and update their ancestors' rigorous standards of craftsmanship.
		Croquet players of all levels still beat a path to the experts tucked away in Thornton Heath, painstakingly making croquet equipment that is not only treasured, but in play all over the world.
	www.jaquesamerica.com /pages-Croquet_History/index.html (804 words)

	Croquet balls, croquet ball, croquet instructions
		Croquet balls The sport of anyone with a penchant for following his croquet ball to the terminus of a sheer cliff, of anyone who thinks it--if not reasonable--a hell of a.
		Croquet description and history from TradGames "Mallet and ball games are thought to have been first played in England and Europe during the middle ages.
		Croquet balls Place a croquet ball so that it rests on the 48” mark on the top surface of the plank, equidistant from the two sides.
	www.correspondence-course.net /croquet/croquet_balls.html (895 words)

	CROQUET: Talking Croquet with RobertFulford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When he tells me that for six years he was "a croquet bum" in the US, making just enough money from the game to head for the next town, our traditional notion of the croquet player needs a bit of revision.
		Both are responses to the likelihood of either player going round from the third or fourth turn, and are as far-removed from the traditional 'standard opening' as the standard opening is from the 1898 start, when the ball was placed in front of hoop one.
		Croquet is changing radically, but there is more to gain in the changes than to lose.
	www.mauicroquetclub.org /people/RobertFulford(1).htm (2819 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		The winner is the player who, with each of his balls, runs each hoop twice in order and strikes the centre peg.
		Also played competitively in the UK is Golf Croquet, in which each player takes turns trying to hit a ball through the same hoop, the winner being the player who manages to hit the ball through the most hoops first.
		Golf Croquet has the advantage of being easier to learn and play, but its critics claim that the lack of croquet strokes in the game means that it is less intellectually demanding.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Croquet (608 words)

	World Chmpships 97
		There were forty players from various croquet playing countries divided into 8 blocks of five.
		David Maugham in action against Robert Fulford of England on lawn two in the Semi Finals of the World Croquet Championships 97.
		Robert Fulford of England in action against Stephen Mulliner of England on Lawn Two in the final of the 97 World Championships.
	www.croquetinwa.fanspace.com /photo6.html (336 words)

	Croquet World Online Magazine \| News & Features
		Fulford came close to matching Spooner's achievement in a "balls out" contest which involved two- and three-ball breaks coordinated with a series of cannons to knock the fourth ball out of scoring position at the first hoop.
		Although Fulford knocked Mik Mehas down into the second tier early on, Mehas fought his way all the way through to the end of the second tier and thus won the right to play Fulford again, until that point undefeated at the top of the ladder.
		On the basis of a single failed wicket split, Fulford had to retire in mid-break, and it was all Mehas needed to play out his win and thus become the "holder" at the top of the ladder, while Fulford fought through the second tier.
	www.croquetworld.com /1998Archives/ArizonaOpen.asp (3479 words)

	MacRobertson Shield 2003
		When he is not playing croquet, Greg who lives in Nelson and works in the transportation industry, takes full advantage of the climate to engage in adventure sports, including mountain biking and scuba diving.
		Charles is a notable croquet player in his own right and represented New Zealand in the NZ v Great Britain Rep match in 1979 as well as the World Golf Croquet Championships in 1998.
		A player since 1988 John is quiet about his path to selection but his win in the plate event at the New Zealand Open in January 2003 followed by winning the WCF qualifying tournament in Nelson in December 2002 makes his place unsurprising.
	www.mindspring.com /~jsoo/macrob2003/players (3133 words)

	Where did croquet originate? in The AnswerBank: Sport
		The sport of croquet is believed to have developed in France and was then adopted by the British in the mid-19th century.
		Perhaps unfortunately for croquet the club became the headquarters of a certain game called Lawn Tennis not long afterwards, and such was the rapid growth in the popularity of the latter, croquet struggled to get a look in.
		Every time a player runs his ball through a hoop in the correct order or hits another ball on the lawn, he earns additional shots and is said to be making a break much the same as a snooker player.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1365.html (538 words)

	1999 Arizona Open Results
		In between, 26 Championship Flight players in the blocks were reduced to 20 qualifiers for the elimination ladder - the top 6 seeds in the top tier with three lives, the middle 8 seeds with two lives, and the bottom 8 with only a single life.
		Arizona croquet pioneer Ed Cline told me how surprised they were when he sent out several hundred rather lavish packets including 12-color tourist brochures to Eastern players and received 40 registrations in the return mail - a big tournament for those days.
		There is no doubt that over the last year, he has been the most successful American Rules player in the U.S. Given all this history and the contrasts between these players, it is possible to make their finals day confrontation more significant than it really was.
	www.azcroquet.org /croquet/azopen/1999/index.html (1248 words)

	Croquet Australia: MacRob Report 02
		The resolution of the impasse rule was accepted and it was clarified that both players, in a two ball game, both for the peg, restarted, would be entitled to a lift after 4 back, even if a player had pegged out a ball earlier in the game.
		Relief would be given for a boundary shot where the player was on uneven ground or where his swing was impeded by the grass verge.
		The health and safety of the players is a duty of care.
	www.croquet-australia.com.au /Events/Macrob2006/Reports/report02.html (780 words)

	Technical - Tactical - Cross Wiring Your Opponent
		Robert Fulford, explaining an alternative to the traditional cross-wire for the top A-Class player.
		Then croquet to the wired position on the far side of the hoop (make sure you have been over there, know where it is and have carefully lined the balls up to get there) and, crucially, get a rush along the wiring line towards the hoop on the other ball.
		Against the best players, at least one ball needs to be within a couple of feet of the hoop to stop them jumping the hoop to hit.
	www.croquet.org.uk /tech/players/tactics/crosswires.html (1876 words)

	Croquet in the News - Evening Standard, 9 July 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Croquet offers few obvious enticements to fans, and can hardly claim to be as glamorous, fast or just plain interesting as tennis.
		The world number one croquet player, Robert Fulford, cannot rival Pete Sampras for performance or physique (though he has made the cover of Country Life) and his stroke could claim to match a 130 mile-an-hour tennis serve.
		His fellow player, Richard Hilditch, who also organises the championships, is an equally vigorous defender of the sport.
	www.kinoko.co.uk /croq/article/stan/stan.htm (490 words)

	Resources
		This video focuses in depth on the common problems aspiring players face - especially those dealing with "deadness", its consequences, and how to avoid it; problems at the first and second wickets; when and how to attack; three- and four-ball break play; deadness rotation issues; and end game tactics.
		This is the best available presentation of the sport of croquet as played at USCA clubs, covering everything the beginning player needs to know, including the sport's history, customs, and etiquette.
		Billing itself as "The Croquet Player's Journal," it features the most complete listing available of upcoming tournaments and tournament results, as well as lively and often controversial articles on the USCA and current issues and personalities in the sport.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze1sk5w/vawvacroquet/id15.html (1153 words)

	Croquet World Online Magazine \| People
		Because this is not a movie script, I can't represent the atmosphere, the facial expressions, the backgrounds, the nuances of tone which made these interviews such a delight to conduct and record.
		Suffice to say that Sonoma-Cutrer is an incomparable week-long croquet party, with 28 of the best players on the planet converged around only two lawns.
		And there are lots of players now who are very comfortable doing that, leaving five-yards roquets in the middle of a break....
	www.croquetworld.com /People/Interview-one.asp (1238 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		robert offley ashburton crewe-milnes, 1st earl of crewe
		/robert harley, 1st earl of oxford and mortimer
		/robert arthur talbot gascoyne-cecil, 3rd marquess of salisbury
	simple.seowaste.com /kat/Ro (74 words)

	Newsletter 3
		Wayne truly was a championship croquet player in many ways, Vice President of Marketing for Health Care Management Systems and a former vestry member of St. John's Episcopal Church.
		Here are comments made by croquet players in the guest book provided by the Richmond-Times Dispatch on their website.
		Croquet clubs are also encouraged to remember Wayne in their own ways, i.e., like placing a plaque on a bench at their club, etc.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze1sk5w/vawvacroquet/id22.html (1719 words)

	Croquet World Online Magazine \| The Game
		This must not be overlooked, because croquet is a sport which not only requires both powerful and gentle strokes, but it is a game that should - and can - be enjoyed and contested on equal terms by both men and women with a very wide range of athletic ability.
		The greatest challenge for both teacher and player is to find a technique which facilitates the basic requirements of ball play.
		He has coached a number of champion players, both men and women, and has conducted coaching clinics in several countries, often in partnership with three-time world champion Robert Fulford.
	www.croquetworld.com /Game/brereton.asp (985 words)

	Feature: Hoop Dreams: Page 5 \| Robb Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Of the 24 players in the Shield’s 2003 edition, six are ranked among the world’s top 10, and Robert Fulford, the 34-year-old captain of the British team, is the number-one-ranked player.
		A good croquet player can manage a peel, a tricky maneuver in which one ball is struck so that it transfers its momentum to another ball, thus propelling the other ball through its next hoop.
		Fulford is capable of sextuple peels, in which he steers the passive ball through six hoops before pegging out.
	www.robbreport.com /Articles/Sport/Feature-Hoop-Dreams-5.asp (430 words)

	Feature: Hoop Dreams \| Robb Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Croquet’s equivalent of sinking a 6-foot putt is rolling a ball through a hoop that allows no more than one-sixteenth of an inch of clearance, a measurement comparable to the thickness of a dime.
		Robert Fulford, the captain of the British team, is very familiar with victory.
		He was the number-one-ranked croquet player in the world at the time of the 2003 MacRobertson Shield tournament.
	www.robbreport.com /Articles/Sport/Feature-Hoop-Dreams.asp (411 words)

	World Croquet Federation - 19th World Team Association Croquet Championship 2006 (The MacRobertson Shield) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert has been in Victoria recently in 2003/4, contesting a fantastic final of the Victorian Open with Trevor Bassett which he won narrowly 3-2.
		With Robert Fulford he is also New Zealand Open Doubles Champion and is NZ South Island Doubles Champion with his fiancee Jenny Williams.
		Robert Lowe, an Auckland journalist, represented New Zealand in the 2004 Trans-Tasman and played in the world championships in Cheltenham last year.
	www.wcfcroquet.org /Tournaments/macshield2006.htm (2426 words)

	Croquet Items for Sale
		Croquet New Zealand sells equipment, books and booklets, and videos with profits being returned to the national body for the development of croquet.
		This website is able to accept advertisements for croquet supplies, with the price to be negotiated with each advertiser according to their requirements.
		Croquet New Zealand is the sole NZ Agency for this equipment.
	www.croquet.org.nz /index.php?id=64 (203 words)

	The White Cottage Croquet Tournament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is now contested once a year with a maximum number of 32 players competing for the Championship trophy.
		Again we were well over-subscribed for players in the Senior and Junior Tournaments and we, sadly, had to turn a number of people down, so please reply early next year if you would like to play.
		Croquet has become a much more high profile sport over the last few months, not only with the infamous John Prescott Thursday afternoon session at Dorneywood, but also more seriously with the most high profile player on the International circuit, Robert Fulford, winning The British Open Croquet Championships, beating Reg Bamford.
	www.croquet1.org.uk /index.html (803 words)

	Croquet: Jumping through hoops \| Columnists \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Putting one ball through all the hoops is facile and using one of their balls to put the other through (a peel) is not a problem.
		There is a lot of watching in croquet, by opponents if not spectators, and Rob has often spent an hour waiting for Reg to finish his turn.
		Twenty years on and Fulford's epic victory was witnessed by maybe two dozen people, for that is the way of croquet.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /columnists/theobserver/story/0,,1821714,00.html (1114 words)

	CROQUET CANADA - LEARNING CENTER - Coaches Corner
		At entry and intermediate level croquet, if a player can rush off a boundary line or out of a corner, take croquet, and then successfully run the hoop at least 90% of the time, many more games will be won than lost.
		The type of balls being used, how long the mallet is in contact with the ball, the type of stroke being attempted, and the court surface all affect the amount of draw.
		If a player has been playing with Jaques balls, and enters a tournament where Barlow or Dawson balls are being used, the draw on a long split shot can be enormous, and at times can appear absolutely irrational.
	www.croquet.ca /learn/coachescorner/93spring.html (691 words)

	Croquet World Online Magazine \| People
		Fulford (right) is congratulated by runner-up Mark Saurin at the 1990 World Championships at Hurlingham.
		I first played croquet at University back in the 1950s, but there was a long gap (over 10 years) before I knew that croquet clubs existed and that you could join them.
		Fortunately the Croquet Association’s own development plans were then beginning, and in later years we had real support from the CA and its development officers.
	www.croquetworld.com /People/Fulford.asp (3413 words)

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