Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Croquet Tournament Tally, 1947-1971: Updated

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Here's yet another necessary update of incomplete information in a previous post of mine. Below, find the specific tournaments one or more of the Mills siblings are documented as having played from 1948, when the Misses Mills moved to Budleigh Salterton, through 1971 when George apparently took ill:

LocaleYears Played
Budleigh Salterton1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
Parkstone1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1970
East Dorset Tournament (Parkstone)1956, 1957
Hurlingham Cups (Hurlingham)1951, 1952, 1953, 1954,1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
Eastbourne1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962 (twice), 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
Championship of South England (Eastbourne)1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962
Cheltenham1947, 1958, 1961, 1965
Brighton1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962
Southwick Tournament (Brighton)1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962
Roehampton1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Peel Memorials (Roehampton)1949, 1950, 1951
All England Handicap (Roehampton)1951, 1958
Challenge Cups (Roehampton)1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963
Exmouth1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
Sidmouth1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955
Leamington1955
Buxton1954
Woking1952


It should be noted that, short of more extensive digging, this table is now as complete as I reasonably can make it. It contains specific tournaments in which the Mills had played that I found while trolling the archives of The Times, as well as competitions after which they had placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd on a Prize List [Many thanks to Chris Williams of The Croquet Association for the complete information]. This table may, however, not include tournaments in which one or more of the Mills played and didn't take a prize, or that simply didn't crop up in months of searching the Byzantine archives of The Times.

While the above data might not be the completely comprehensive, it does give a far better sense of both the length and the breadth of the croquet careers, as well as the depth of real commitment, of George, Violet, and Agnes Mills of Grey Friars, Budleigh Salterton.



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