Show CROQUET VINDICATED AT T LAST something has lIas happened that furnishes furnishes furnishes fur fur- a basis for belief that there is some sense a after atter ter all aU in the game they call croquet It has never seemed to offer opportunity for emotional escape As S for healthy outdoor exercise ex ex- rocking chair polo would be equally val val- You simply cannot get as much conversation conversation conversation con con- out of the game during or after play as in golf There is nothing of the chop stroke or the eastern or western grip to master as in tennis You dont don't have to buy any funny clothes to play the game gaine Your stance doesn't seem to have hae much to do 10 with winning It has no extensive vocabulary and you ou can ean learn the rules by going around the course once Then hen what can be its allure 1 Sometimes the funniest things happen Take rake for instance Tuesday in Meade l Kan Two Jwo wo women engaged in a grim croquet match espied a pair of thugs trying to steal their automobile in the city park Did they scream or telephone ne for the police 1 No indeed They ran to their parked car and belabored the bandit with their croquet mallets doing a right good job When onlookers rs rushed to the scene the man was was was' inert on the ground and the sheriff loaded him into his car as if he had b been en a bag of oats His Ills companion fled from 1 the e scene in terror as he watched the flailing mallets The federal authorities considering methods meth- meth eth- eth of wiping crime of off the American scene should give some soine thought to croquet mallets Perhaps here is just the weapon the country lias 1 s been waiting for With the ballot and anda a mallet womans woman's influence in a new sphere looms with important possibilities |