About 800 balanced, tip-toed, peered and strained to see Navratilova play simple, near-perfect, serve-volley, chip-and-charge grass-court tennis against an opponent without much clue about playing on the stuff.
Private ranches usually charge a grass rental fee to herders from off property.
As cricket's share was cut, only cycling and football received more than the £25.3m Sport England – in charge of grass-roots funding – handed to netball, an award that came in recognition of the rapid expansion of a sport that has reinvented itself.
When we learned that a Forest Service employee, Terry Barton, had been charged with deliberately setting the fire now burning out of control near my home, I tried to imagine her in slow motion, lighting the match, setting it off and then watching the flames charge across the grass to the pines.
"They were detonating charges along the grass at that point, and some of those were pretty close.
Facing Bobby Parnell, Derek Jeter grounded a ball softly to shortstop where Omar Quintanilla, who charged onto the grass to get it, let it slip under his glove, allowing Jeter to race to second.
You hear the squeals first, then the thunderous approach of the first stampede of hipsters charging across the grass to secure their territory at the front of the stage.
Mr. Mellor is in charge of rolling the grass at Fenway into fantastic patterns: the Red Sox logo, the American flag, checkerboards and stripes.
In Bundy's financially self-serving world view, the land on which his cattle graze does not belong to the American people, and thus the BLM has no right to manage it or charge him for the grass and water he takes from it every year.
Leading this charge is the emerging grass model system Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium).
