Plenty, if you're a croquet player looking to home in on their turf. And so began a decade-long standoff over the velvety greens and which batch of sportsmen had a right to them. While the imbroglio has never led to fisticuffs, it's been an icy-cold war of words. Behind closed doors, croquet players snipe about geriatric lawn bowlers who do nothing more than roll a ball and pull political strings to keep their claim to the courts.
Lawn bowlers argue that their game is far more difficult and much more social.
They might as well take a jackhammer to perfectly good shuffleboard courts. It's taken a long time to get here. We don't want to jeopardize this now.