POLO IN ENGLAND 



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now (1890) at Hurlingham, was played for by the following 



teams : 



America, 



Mr. T. Hitchcock (captain). 

 Mr. W. K. Thorn. 1 

 Mr. R, Belmont. 

 Mr. F. Keen. 



Umpire. 

 Mr, E. Winthrop. 



Hurlingham. 



Mr. John Watson (captain). 

 Hon. R. Lumley, 7th Hussars. 

 Captain Thomas Hone, 7th 



Hussars. 



Captain Malcolm Little, 9th 

 Lancers. 



Umpire. 

 Captain the Hon. C. Lambton. 



The system of combination practised by the English team 

 and the superiority of their ponies enabled them to score an 

 easy victory, and they brought the cup away with them, together 

 with many pleasant recollections of the hospitality of their 

 opponents. 



In Africa polo has now found a home, and Cape Town, 

 Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Johannesburg, and many other places 

 can boast of their polo ground and club. 



In Australia the game was started as long ago as 1876 by 

 Captain (now Colonel) St. Quintin, 8th Hussars, his brother, 

 and Mr. Ware at Warnnambool, and subsequently at Sydney, 

 where the Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, lent all the weight 

 of his assistance towards making it popular. There is now a 

 very good polo club in Adelaide, but somehow the game never 

 quite ' took ' in the Antipodes as it has at home/ though it 

 flourishes exceedingly both at Malta and Gibraltar. 



JAPANESE POLO 



Though differing widely from polo as we know it, and as it 

 was played long ago in Asia, the Japanese game yet possesses 

 a certain amount of interest owing to its antiquity. In Mr. 

 Basil Hall Chamberlain's * Classical Poetry of the Japanese ' 

 this notice occurs : 



1 Mr. Thorn was the late popular Master of the Pau Foxhounds. 



