The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 236
ken, and is done byplacing the players own ball in con-tact with the roqueted ball, and thenstriking the former so as to move,however slightly, the roqueted balland sending his own by the samestroke a greater or less distance asmay be desired. After making apoint, and also at the beginning ofevery… … Fig. 2.—Position by Split Shot. balls, and when he has played on all,he is dead on them. There aretwo ways of taking roquet-croquet.The one above described is calledloose croquet, because neither ballis held during the stroke. The otheris tight croquet, when the playingball is placed against the…
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