Croquet

Thanks Mary and Sherry for the photo op! We can't wait to come to the party!! The balloon came in handy as well. I gave it to Harry McCawley for his birthday and he loved it! We love Harry!!
I have never played croquet, and knew very little about the game, so I went online to find some info. Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.
The game became highly popular as a social pastime in England during the 1860s.
By the late 1870s, however, croquet had been eclipsed by another fashionable game, tennis, and many of the newly-created croquet clubs, including the All-England club at Wimbledon, converted some or all of their lawns into tennis courts. From then onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual membership amounting to a few thousand players.
Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.