Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.: Human Croquet

Sid G. Hedges (Editor). The Universal Book of Hobbies. London: Odhams Press Limited, 1935.

So this is how people used to amuse themselves before computers? Thank god for Bill Gates!

Arthur Wellesley famously said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Perhaps the Battle of Britain was won on the human croquet fields?