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Below are some links to gateball in the news, interesting articles written by gateball players, and miscellanea about gateball that you might find interesting. Please let us know if your club is in the news, you want to write an article or you see something that we should include on this page.


Get Your Gate Face On, an article about the Brunswick gateball team ahead of the 2010 World Championship (7 September 2010)

Close, but it's just not croquet, an article about the Canberra gateball team in the lead up to the World Championship (uploaded 5 September 2010)

World Event Awaits Local Pair - an article in the Toowoomba Chronicle about Paul and Sandra Reynolds preparing for the World Championship (uploaded 2 September 2010)

Gateball in Shanghai - an article about the upcoming World Gateball Championship just published in Croquet World Online (30 August 2010)

Shut the Gate I'm off to China - a profile of Bruce McAlister ahead of the 2010 World Championship in the Ipswich News (27 August 2010)

Going for Gateball (see page 5) - a short article in Canberra's City News about the Canberra Gateball Team's preparations for the World Championship (26 August 2010)

Sparkling display in showdown - results of the 2010 Central Queensland Championship written by Alan Kennedy in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin (22 June 2010)

Australian Young Teams Make a Strong Showing - a write-up of the Australian Gateball Championships from Nice Pal Monthly (November 2009).

It's on for young and old - a newspaper article from the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin on the results of the 2009 National Gateball Championships (20 October 2009)

Gateball National Championships come to the Beef Capital - listen to Ethel and the team in Rockhampton introducing gateball to Jacquie Mackay and Mitch Grayson from ABC Local Radio (12 October 2009).

Rocky hosts gateball titles, an article about the 2009 National Gateball Championships appeared in Rockhampton's The Morning Bulletin on 29 September 2009.

Tamborine Mountain Gateball, read about the launch of gateball at the Tamborine Mountian Croquet Club on 19 September 2009. Article by Peter and Brenda Quaife with photos from Julia Vickers.

Gateball Travels, an article about their experience playing gateball in Singapore and Hong Kong by Jack and Audrey Weller, 18 September 2009.

A Courtside Chat with Australia's Liz Fleming, Interview by Bob Alman, 5 August 2009

Takako and the Great Typhoon, a children's book by Kelly Garcia about Takako, a shisa (Japanese lion-dog statue), and her adventures in Okinawa - including a game of gateball!, April 2009

Playing Gateball in Japan, an article for gateball.com.au by Barbara Northcott, 25 May 2009

Playing Gateball in Japan, Paul Salisbury, Croquet World Online Magazine, January 2009

Suka!, Shana Thatcher, Goondiwindi Argus, October 2008

Gateball - Brewing to Storm the World, James Huffman, The Nippon Foundation, May 2005

Gateball: Croquet's Missing Link?, James Hawkins, Croquet World Online Magazine (reprinted from the Croquet Gazette), March 2002

Lift that mallet - Japanese Retirees take up gateball, Marjorie Coeyman, The Christain Science Monitor, March 2002


 

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