Croquet

Under a cloudless sky on the hottest day of the year so far a total of 18 livery companies had entered 32 teams in the fast growing annual Glovers’ Inter Livery Golf Croquet Day at the Sussex County Croquet Club at Southwick. Croquet players were for the first time divided into those that had played croquet previously competing for the Glovers’ Cup and a fine new trophy called the Inter…

On a warm sunny day at Southwick in West Sussex twenty four Horners including partners, who had travelled from all over south and west England, as well as being the happy Horners also became the croquet learning Horners and then the croquet playing Horners.   There was a wide variety of experience amongst those attending including from those who thought a mallet was just for banging in tent pegs, to…