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News Clips

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.


2012

Read about Barbara and Jim Northcott's latest adventures playing gateball in Japan (January 2012)

2011

NSW Gateball Championship held at Narooma, an article in the Narooma News (December 2011)

A collection of articles from the Redland Times and the Wynnum Herald about the fantastic effort of David Jones promoting gateball in South East Queensland (October-November 2011)

Article and English translation from the latest edition of Nice Pal Monthly about the 2011 Australian Gateball Championship (November 2011)

Profile of John and Beryl Holmes, an article about two top gateballers from McIlwraith on the Australian Human Rights Commission website (October 2011)

Gateball on the Great South East, a write up of a television segment shown on Channel 7 in Queensland (October 2011)

Gateway to gaining new skills, article about gateball in the local Wynnum paper.

Jones blasts a win, article about David Jones' performance in the East Brisbane singles competition

Gateway to sporting fun, by Laura Armitage, in Melbourne's Progress Leader - a news article about Kew and the Australian Gateball Championship (August 2011)

Read about Barabara and Jim Northcott's visit to a Gateball Centre of Excellence in Japan (May 2011)

More to come for Ang Mo Kio - a news article which includes a photo of the Signaporean Prime Minister playing gateball (March 2011)

Gateball promotion - Japanese style! Read about the new gateball manga series (February 2011)

2010

Excerpts from the Gateball Garden - the Chinese gateball magazine- about the Australians at the World Gateball Championship (December 2010)

A New Era in Mallet Sports, an article from the Bayside Bulletin promoting gateball as a sport for young as well as old (December 2010)

Report on the 2010 World Gateball Championship by Barbara Northcott from Southport (October 2010)

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)

2009

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

2008

Suka!, Shana Thatcher, Goondiwindi Argus, October 2008

2005

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

2002

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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