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CHAPTER IV 



RULE'S AND BY-LAWS OF POLO 



THE Hurlingham Club stands in the same relation to polo as 

 the M.C.C. does to cricket ; in fact, the Hurlingham Polo 

 Committee may be considered the governing body of the game 

 to make, alter, and amend all rules and laws connected with 

 it. The committee who frame these laws are a powerful body, 

 composed of men who thoroughly know the game, men who 

 have been, and are players, and who are representatives of the 

 leading polo clubs and regimental teams ; and therefore it will 

 be patent, on glancing over the names of those acting on the 

 committee for 1889, that rules approved of by such authorities 

 are as good as they well can be. 



In 1889 the Hurlingham Polo Committee was made up 

 thus : 



Viscount Valentia. 



Earl of Harrington. 



Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. 



Edward Baldock, Esq. 



Captain Herbert. 



T. S. Kennedy, Esq. 



Major Cecil Peters, 4th Hussars. 



Arthur Peat, Esq. 



Richard Fort, Esq, 



Gerald Hardy, Esq. 



Captain Walter 



Captain Julian Spicer, Royal 



Horse Guards. 

 John Watson, Esq. 

 F. B. Mildmay, Esq., M.P. 

 Earl of Airlie, loth Royal 



Hussars. 



Captain Heywood Jones. 

 Capt.theHon. Richard Lawley 



7th Hussars. 



i Captain Lament, Qth Lancers. 

 Smythe (Manager}. 



