The Boys’ book of manly exercises, sports, and games. (1881)
New York : E.P. Dutton, 1881. · leaf 230
its introduction, several sets of Croquet were seen in vigorous play every day in several of the enclosures and squares of London. Croquet is emphatically a game in which considerable and healthy exercise is given to the intellectual faculties, and one which, under proper direction, is calculated… … THE VARIOUS SHAPED MALLETS IN GENERAL USE. 229