HOW TO BECOME A POLO PLAYER. 9 



place of stirrups. The height of the seat should be 

 about two inches less than the height, at the withers, 

 of the pony which is to be ridden. For instance, 

 for a 14.2 pony, the seat of the wooden horse should 

 be about 14 hands high. 



A few hours' practice under a competent instructor 



Fig. I.— Wooden Horse. 



and with a couple of boys to bowl balls, will greatly 

 help the beginner in learning how to make each 

 stroke correctly, and has the further advantage of 

 saving a living mount from injury ; because a man 

 in his first attempts almost always hits his pony's off 

 fore leg more or less severely with stick or ball, or 



