TUNNEL OF TIME Past Gazettes can be found on the Croquet England website at https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=ca/gazette&Action=Issues. Currently there are searchable scans of the Gazette back to 1953.
Vintners has signed a three-year agreement with the Croquet Association for Bombay Gin to sponsor the President’s Cup. The sponsorship deal forms part of a £100,000 annual promotional package for Bombay Gin which was launched onto the UK market at the end of 1984. Richard Ambler, brand manager for Bombay Gin, says that Bombay Gin’s upmarket and individual style is especially appropriate for sponsorship of croquet. Bombay Gin are looking forward to developing their links with the game and the Croquet Association, and we for our part are looking forward to working with them. 70 YEARS AGO In the August 1956 Gazette (#20) Notes by Rover Well played! Since 1950, when Miss Margaret Claughton won the Women's Championship, we have become so accustomed to seeing any visiting New Zealander who may be around appropriating one of our ‘titles’, that it was with almost a feeling of surprise that we found finals day at Roehampton to be the concern only of British players. Congratulations to all five of those thus engaged, and first of all to John Solomon who, with a New Zealand title to his credit, added a second victory in our Open Championship to his impressive list of successes. The Open Doubles brought members of our test team to the final, and a game full of excellent play, amid otherwise depressing surroundings, produced a new pair of champions. Neither G. F. Stone nor L. Kirk-Greene had won a national title before, and the very high standard of play shown by both throughout the week revealed that the honour was certainly not overdue. We have good reason to be proud of our “Big Six’’, who are giving of their very best in this uniquely
interesting season. How sad that in a summer in which we want our visitors to see everything in Britain at its best, our weather should be behaving in so ungracious a manner. 90 YEARS AGO In the August 22nd, 1936 Gazette (No. 817, Vol. XXXIII. (No 19). Editorial Notes Elsewhere in this issue is the copy of a cablegram received last week from Mr. Cyril J. Miller of the Victorian Association. It will be remembered that the English challenge for the MacRobertson International Trophy had been accepted on behalf of Australia in a previous cable from Mr. Miller, as announced at our Annual General Meeting last May. Mr Miller had named the members of the team he would bring to this country to play three Test Matches for the trophy during the summer of 1937. This was excellent news; and our Council, having net to consider the matter of venues and dates, dispatched a further cable to Australia proposing five tests instead of three. Our friends have now agreed to this, and we learn from Mr. Miller that the Australian team he is to captain will sail from Melbourne in the s.s. Mongolia on the 18th May next. Their arrival in England will be somewhat later than anticipated and unfortunately they will not be including the Coronation as part of their prospective programme, the difficulty of earlier advance bookings having, we imagine, been found insuperable. But, happily, our visitors will remain with us until the close of the season in October, so that arrangements for five Test Matches can now definitely be put in hand, and those will in due course be announced as fixtures for 1937!
CHRIS WILLIAMS Croquet England Archivist
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www.croquetengland.org.uk | 4 adds: A big thank you for the web cam during the Open Final. The quality was awful, only a knowledgeable croquet player could have worked out what was going on but it was a step in the right direction and better than nothing at all. 40 YEARS AGO ~In the September 1986 Gazette (#187) Bombay Gin to sponsor the President's Cup International Distillers and For the camera at the quality setting used, bright sun was needed to see the balls, Picture quality was quite poor. Frame rate delivered about 3 frames per second – which was OK for following a break but nothing like "live action”. In conclusion, the up-link from the camera to the internet was not adequate bandwidth for the service, a future test should probably use the main server with repeater software taking a single feed from the camera. Tim Murphy in Canberra, Australia 20 YEARS AGO In the August 2006 Gazette (#304) Live video feed of the Open final - how was it for you? By Dave Kibble Twelve people tried to connect to the camera streaming live video of the Open final, six succeeded in connecting, some at different times, though I think four were all connected at about 11AM. Viewers were in Australia, USA (in the Saturday test) and the UK.
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