 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Croquet has its day.(Recreation)(This sport is a matter of life and death on the lawn)
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The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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August 21, 2003
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Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard
Some outdoor sports are death-defying - hang gliding, extreme skiing and bow-hunting for grizzly bears come to mind. But only one allows a player to go from being "dead" to "alive" several times in the course of a single game.
In croquet, you see, "deadness" is a mere inconvenience. The term describes a player temporarily ineligible to earn bonus strokes by hitting another ball with his own.
"We use a deadb...