During
Wonderella’s tenure as publisher of the magazine
Phooka, the Journal of the Overland
Mallet Club, a group of sporting types met each Sunday
morning for croquet, drinks, and general tomfoolery. This
group petitioned for—and was granted—chapterhood
in the O.M.C.
At the peak of O.M.C. Berkeley’s antics, publisher
Clint Marsh printed two issues of the shortlived, ill-fated
newsletter Victorious Egret. We reproduce these newsletters
in their entirety here, online, for all to enjoy.
Victorious
Egret was printed letter size, or 8.5 x 11 inches.
Click
on the images below for a closer look.
Please
note that the information presented in Victorious Egret
is dreadfully out of date.
Victorious
Egret No.1, for February 1999: In
addition to listing croquet events from around the Bay
Area, the inaugural issue of VE posed a postal puzzler,
offered advice on reducing junk mail, presented a delicious
garbanzo bean salad, and reprinted the rules for Lewis
Carroll’s boardgame Lanrick.
Victorious
Egret No.2, for March 1999: Before
its mysterious disappearance, VE recounted the goings-on
at the Wonderella Tiki Party, previewed the “lost”
issue of Phooka, solved the postal puzzler, and gave even
more information about Bay Area croquet. What larks!
