CROQUET

RULES AND
REGULATIONS

How to Play Croquet

Mes? people think Croquet is a modern game,
yet, although in some respects it is new, it is
little more than an old one revived. It used to be
played by the ancient Gauls so universally that the
greater portion of the promenades adjoining large
towns consisted each of a long alley, the maiJ---the
name of the game being “jeu de mail.” The latter
French received it from their ancestors, the Gauls,
and it was introduced into England undur Charles II
at the time of the Restoration, after his sojourn in
France. The long avenue in front of Buckingham
Palace, called the “Mall” or “Mail,” derived its name
from this game, which was played there. The resi-
dents of Boston, a century ago, gave the same name
to the side avenues of their famous Common. Very
few of the present residents are aware that Beacon
Street and Park Street Malls derive their title from
the game of Croquet. —

One prime feature of Croquet is that it is an out-
door sport in which ladies and gentlemen, boys and
girls, may alike engage. Hitherto, while men and
boys have had their healthful means of recreation in
the open air, the women and girls have been re-
stricted to the less exhilarating sports of indoor life:
or if they ventured out, all the participation in
healthful outdoor amusement and exercise they

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