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...true, or it may not--but in the end it really doesn't matter. Every sport has its following, whether it is stickball or croquet...
Martina Navratilova brought her surgically repaired knees, prescription eyeglasses and fragile psyche this year to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for a sentimental valedictory on tennis' most hallowed turf. No expectations. Just an opportunity to bask one more time in the genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick...
Graf, Courier, Stich and Edberg may be gone, but as Wimbledon moves through its final week, Gangji and the other 359 umpires employed by the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club for the tournament stoically march through the draw. Underpaid and often abused by the churlish multimillionaires they judge, umpires must display the probity of a Supreme Court Justice, the acuity of a marksman and the patience of a marriage counselor...
Assassin players stalk each other with plastic dart guns--or in the case of the thwarted first-years, plastic spoons; the last to "die" wins. So croquet it ain't. But it's a game some Harvard students like to play. And while the Yard is a popular spot for tourists, it's also the home of some 1,400 students...
...national croquet committee changed the entire format of the croquet season after last fall by making it a spring sport for the first time this year...