CROQUET TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 5

CROQUET TOURNEY

Gold and Silver Mallets

PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES

The Gold and Silver Mallet croquet contest was concluded yesterday. The pegged out game between Mrs. Greig (Upper Hutt) and Mr. Bryan (Palmerston), was finished in the morning, the weather being showery. It was a very close game, Mr. Bryan winning by 4 points.

The final was played on the Mount Victoria lawns, commencing at midday, by which time the weather had cleared. The lawns were rather heavy at the start, but.became lighter when the sun came out and some excellent croquet was played. The long shooting was wonderful.

Mrs. Henderson won the toss and decided to take play and quite early in the game made a break of 9. Mr. Bryan got in a long shot and made a break of C. Mrs. Henderson made another long shot and went to rover.

Mr. Bryan got the shot and made another break and very soon the 4 clips were on rover. Mrs. Henderson got another long shot and attempted to peg out, but failed with the first ball and pegged out the second. Mr. Bryan got the shot and made rover with red, having sent Mrs. Henderson’s ball near the corner, lay a rush for the yellow. Mrs. Henderson got in the shot and the game finished 2C-23. In the second game Mr. Bryan got in the shot and made a break of G with yellow and in the next turn carried his clip to rover. Mrs. Henderson failed to get the shot and Mr. Bryan in the next turn took his red clip to rover. Mrs. Henderson at this time had only three points to her credit, not being able to get her long shots. Mr. Bryan, in a take off, hit a wire and then missed the shot, letting in Mrs. Henderson, who went from the first hoop to rover with the black ball. Mr. Bryan missed the long shot, and Mrs. Henderson went from the fifths hoop to rover, peeling black through the last hoop, blue roqueting black after running the hoop, which prevented Mrs. Henderson from pegging out. Excitement at this period was very high. It was in and out play for a time, Mr. Bryan scoring another point, but missing long shots. Finally Mrs. Henderson pegged out, the score being the same in both games, 26-23. Mrs. IV. S. Austin, vice-president of the New Zealand Croquet Council, after thanking all who had participated in the tournament and those who had helped to run it, presented Mrs. D. C. Henderson with the Gold Mallets and Mr. C. Bryan (Palmerston) with the Silver' Mallets. PETTICOAT LANE Miss Baillie Sees London Miss Erica Baillie, IVadestown, who is in London at present studying landscape gardening, writes of Petticoat Lane on a Sunday morning in December :— This morning I went to Petticoat Lane. Every other day of the week it is just plain Middlesex Street, and the streets that run off it are all named variously. But on Sunday it is quite another thing, and all Petticoat Lane. The streets are thick!}’ lined with rows of market stalls, some parts selling one thing, some parts another. Quite a large part is taken up with stalls of suiting materials, another of oyercoating; poultry and meat are sold in other parts. But in Middlesex Street itself, the main section, the goods are mixed. I went there —or to Liverpool Station —in the tube, and had no difficulty in finding my way, for crowds got off there, and. they all made in the direction of Petticoat Lane. The crowds there were I It would be excellent practice for ’‘elbowing” at more important functions. All manner of thing’s are for sale, and the things’are very, cheap. Men’s socks were four pairs for 6d. They did not look bad, and were being sold as fast as the man could pick them up. He did not wrap them. Women’s stockings were four pairs for 2/-. I bought six men’s handkerchiefs for 1/-, for use on the voyage home. The man wlio was selling them had such a surprising flow of words that I stopped and listened to him for ages. Jellied eel.s are apparently a delicacy much favoured by people of those parts, and several stalls specialised in them. Large enamel basins of this unpleasantlooking food were supplied to customers, plus a small spoon and a hunk of bread. Men, women and children stood round eating, and obviously enjoying it. If they preferred, portions were supplied in cartons to take home: but to eat it there was the fashionable thing. Fruit wa.s sold like sweets, in bags full of mixed varieties, which were to be had for next to nothing. One thing that struck me was there were far more men than women about, which seemed unusual. And there were so many picturesque characters to see, and so very many entertaining conversations to listen to. I don’t think there can be a more fascinating place a nywhere.

Corsage Sprays or Orchitis, Roses, Violets. Debutantes’ Posies.—Miss Murray, 3G ’Willis St. Phono 40-541.— Atlvt.