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Chapters: 1868 in Chess, 1868 in Cricket, Sports Clubs Established in 1868, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London Tecumsehs, the New York Athletic Club, Australian Aboriginal Cricket Team in England in 1868, Gipsies Football Club, Marlborough Nomads, Utica Curling Club, North of Ireland Fc, Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society, Perthshire Rfc, Ajeeb, 1868 English Cricket Season, Thames Hare and Hounds, Royal Connaught Boat Club. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All-England Club, based at Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself. However, it still operates as a members tennis club, with many courts in use all year round. The Club has 375 full members, about 100 temporary playing members, and a number of honorary members, including past Wimbledon singles champions and people who have rendered distinguished service to the game. In order to become a full or temporary member, an applicant must obtain letters of support from four existing full members, two of whom must have known the applicant for at least three years. The name is then be added to the Candidates' List. Honorary Members are elected from time to time by the club's Committee. Membership carries with it the right to purchase two tickets for each day of the Wimbledon Championships. The patron of the club is Queen Elizabeth II, and the President is H.R.H. The Duke of Kent The club was founded in 1868 at the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1598742 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Cricket Aux Jeux Olympiques, Compétitions Artistiques Aux Jeux Olympiques, Croquet Aux Jeux Olympiques, Jeu de Paume Aux Jeux Olympiques, Motonautique Aux Jeux Olympiques, Polo Aux Jeux Olympiques, Pelote Basque Aux Jeux Olympiques, Pelote Basque Aux Jeux Olympiques D'été de 1968, Jeu de Raquettes Aux Jeux Olympiques, Crosse Aux Jeux Olympiques, Roque Aux Jeux Olympiques, Pelote Basque Aux Jeux Olympiques de 1992, Pelote Basque Aux Jeux Olympiques D'été de 1924. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : L'unique épreuve de cricket aux Jeux olympiques s'est déroulé en 1900 à Paris, avec deux équipes masculines engagées, opposées au cours d'un seul match. La Grande-Bretagne est officiellement créditée de la victoire face à la France, même si la rencontre, organisée dans le cadre de l'Exposition universelle de 1900, a opposé sur le terrain les joueurs d'un club anglais aux membres majoritairement britanniques de deux clubs parisiens. Le cricket figure au programme des Jeux de 1896, à Athènes, publié l'année précédente. Il est classé dans les « Jeux athlétiques » avec le « lawn tennis » et doit être organisé « selon les réglements du Marylebone Cricket Club ». Le Comité international des Jeux olympiques envisage la participation d'équipes venant de Malte et de Corfou, ce qui lui fait espérer un nombre suffisant de participants. Finalement, faute de participants, l'épreuve n'est pas organisée. Affiche du match de 1900.En 1900, les Jeux olympiques sont organisés sous le nom de « Concours internationaux d'exercices physiques et de sports », dans le cadre de l'exposition universelle de 1900, à Paris. Il est fait rarement référence au terme « Olympique » à cette époque. L'Union des sociétés françaises de sports a...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet, Case Histories, Emotionally Weird. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the first novel of Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox from a middle-class English family. By interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, the book chronicles the lives of four generations of women from Ruby's great-grandmother Alice to Ruby's mother's failed dreams. The story of Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, all written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 ("Conception" beginning with the words "I exist!") to 1992. In between each chapter are (non-consecutive) flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other (mostly female) members of Ruby's familyincluding her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty. Ruby's family tree Common themes in the book include the untimely death of children, the effect of the two World Wars on the family, the ultimate fate of characters who "disappeared" from their families life never to be heard of again, and how the women of the family feel compelled to enter into marriages in which they become unhappy. The fate of Ruby's family is revealed gradually through the book. A number of revelations, such as the fact that Ruby's sister Gillian dies in a road accident aged 11, are revealed to the reader long before they actually happen. However, other revelations relating the fate of various characters are withheld and revealed gradually throughout the novel, including: It won the 1995, Whitbread Book of the Year, beating The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie and a biography of William Ewart Gladstone b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4966834 ... Read more

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Chapters: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London Tecumsehs, the New York Athletic Club, Gipsies Football Club, Marlborough Nomads, Utica Curling Club, North of Ireland Fc, Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society, Perthshire Rfc, Thames Hare and Hounds, Royal Connaught Boat Club. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All-England Club, based at Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself. However, it still operates as a members tennis club, with many courts in use all year round. The Club has 375 full members, about 100 temporary playing members, and a number of honorary members, including past Wimbledon singles champions and people who have rendered distinguished service to the game. In order to become a full or temporary member, an applicant must obtain letters of support from four existing full members, two of whom must have known the applicant for at least three years. The name is then be added to the Candidates' List. Honorary Members are elected from time to time by the club's Committee. Membership carries with it the right to purchase two tickets for each day of the Wimbledon Championships. The patron of the club is Queen Elizabeth II, and the President is H.R.H. The Duke of Kent The club was founded in 1868 at the height of a croquet craze as the All England Croquet Club, and held its first croquet competition in 1870. Its original ground was situated off Worple Road, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1598742 ... Read more

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Ever need a fact or quotation on croquet? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "croquet," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in many unexpected examples for croquet, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster's Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org). ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Fulford (born 1969) is a leading English croquet player who has dominated the sport since the turn of the 1990s. Born in Colchester, England, he started to play croquet at his local school at the age of 15. Fulford has a light attitude towards the game, often travelling from cheap hotel or homes of local croquet players to the next because he only makes about £8000 a year from the sport. One tournament yielded him a lawnmower. He is an alumnus of the University of Durham, where amongst some of his friends he had the nickname 'fluffy' He supplements his sporting career by working for a stone merchants in Thurrock in Essex. Robert has become a CPA and it is not clear what effect, if any, this will have upon his sporting pursuits. Robert also coaches croquet, particularly in Australia and the Chattooga Club in North Carolina. Robert has made croquet videos with Australian croquet expert Kevin Brereton in which Robert teaches both basic and advanced break tactics. He has won the world championship 5 times: Fulford has also won the Presidents Cup eight times (1989, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2009), the Open Championship nine times (1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008) and the Men's Championship three times (1990, 1998, 2006). Fulford playing style includes the ability to play a range of shots. His tactic of peeling an opponent's ball through hoop 1 makes a triple peel as hard as possible for the opponent. His sextuple peels are also more frequent than those of any other player. Robert Fulford uses an Irish grip and employs "casting" about three times before each shot. He has strong wrists which makes the Irish grip work for him without it causing the R.S.I. that the grip is sometimes blamed for. In fact, Robe... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=454463 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Real tennis, often called "Royal Tennis"?one of several sports sometimes called the sport of Kings?is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. It is also known as jeu de paume in France, "court tennis" in the United States, "Royal Tennis" in Australia. The term "real" was first used by journalists in the middle of the twentieth century to distinguish the ancient game from modern "lawn" tennis (even though that sport is seldom contested on lawns these days outside the few social-club-managed estates such as Wimbledon). There is no evidence that it is a corruption of the word 'royal' as some have indicated. Real tennis players often call the game "tennis", while continuing to refer to its more widely played offshoot as "lawn tennis". ... Read more

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Chapters: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Croquet Association, Old College Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All-England Club, based at Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself. However, it still operates as a members tennis club, with many courts in use all year round. The Club has 375 full members, about 100 temporary playing members, and a number of honorary members, including past Wimbledon singles champions and people who have rendered distinguished service to the game. In order to become a full or temporary member, an applicant must obtain letters of support from four existing full members, two of whom must have known the applicant for at least three years. The name is then be added to the Candidates' List. Honorary Members are elected from time to time by the club's Committee. Membership carries with it the right to purchase two tickets for each day of the Wimbledon Championships. The patron of the club is Queen Elizabeth II, and the President is H.R.H. The Duke of Kent The club was founded in 1868 at the height of a croquet craze as the All England Croquet Club, and held its first croquet competition in 1870. Its original ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon. Croquet was very popular there until the then-infant sport of lawn tennis (a game introduced by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield a year or so prior, and originally call...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1598742 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fulford (born 1969) is a leading English croquet player who has dominated the sport since the turn of the 1990s. Born in Colchester, England, he started to play croquet at his local school at the age of 15. Fulford has a light attitude towards the game, often travelling from cheap hotel or homes of local croquet players to the next because he only makes about £8000 a year from the sport. One tournament yielded him a lawnmower. He is an alumnus of the University of Durham, where amongst some of his friends he had the nickname 'fluffy' He supplements his sporting career by working for a stone merchants in Thurrock in Essex. Robert has become a CPA and it is not clear what effect, if any, this will have upon his sporting pursuits. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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First Edition Published March 1989. Includes Cassette Tape of the same title. Book consists of color diagrams demonstrating various positions of balls and wickets with comments on strategy. Per the author's introduction: "In designing the games I describe in this book, I have tried to emphasize a number of inportant concepts, all of them critical to successful play: how to rush to the attack in order to set a break for partner; how and when to peel the partner ball; how to play a controlled break; how and when to execute a "wired leave"; and how to formulate end game tactics. 79 pages, softcover spiral bound. Color diagrams. Cassette tape with author commentary. ... Read more

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