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I came to the Compton eight years ago because they wanted someone with know-how to improve the


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Eastbourne Town FC versus Herne Bay. The building in the background is the town hall © Nick Macneill


an even cut. Mowing all five lawns takes four hours, and John reckons he walks between seven and eight miles doing it. Width of cut is 22 inches and each lawn is cut on the diagonal, as they are for bowls, to create an even run of balls over the whole area. He uses granular fertiliser in spring, then from May to September carries out monthly application of liquid feed containing potash, nitrogen and phosphates.


Irrigation is simple and basic and he uses an inch and half hose, and that too takes him about four hours to do all of the greens. In


the summer months he usually starts this at 6.00am and does the job solo, which at least means he knows it’s been done evenly. Unlike golf green holes, the hoops are static for general club play, but positioning is changed for major tournaments. Long-time club member Roger Wood has that task. In the words of the Croquet Association here in the UK, croquet is a game of strategy, angles and tactics - a bit like snooker on grass. All you need are six hoops, two mallets, four balls - blue, black, red and yellow, and a patch of grass. The


playing surface. Until then, it had got by with the efforts of well-meaning volunteers


rules of Association Croquet are quite detailed, but Golf Croquet has simpler rules yet requires the same skills. It is this latter version that is centre stage at the Compton later this summer. The WCF, which organises the World Championships, is the international body for the sport of croquet For the record, there are at least nine versions of the sport in all, including Garden Croquet, Ancient Croquet and, would you believe, Extreme Croquet. It has been re- invented many times since its 18th century origins.


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