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after doing invaluable work for months under Plumer 

 in his gallant attempts to get into Mafeking, Colonel 

 Rimington, Lord Charles Bentinck, and Major Poore, 

 D.S.O., are four of the best Back players in the Army. 



When the 9th Lancers won the Cup at Hurlingham 

 in 1896, the team consisted of David Campbell, 

 Captain Jenner (now Major Sir W. K. Jenner, 

 D.A.A.G. at the Curragh), G. Ellison and Lord C. 

 Bentinck. Poor Ellison, who was a fine polo player 

 and good sportsman, has played his last game, and 

 his place is hard to fill. Campbell is best known for 

 having reached the height of every steeplechase 

 rider's ambition, by winning the Grand National on 

 Soarer. He rides at polo with the same dash and 

 determination as he does over a country. Sir W. K. 

 Jenner has more regimental polo triumphs to his credit 

 than probably any other man, as, for instance, the 

 Inter- Regimental at Hurlingham in 1S89, '90, '91 and 

 '96, and the Indian Inter- Regimental of 1883, '84 

 and '85. His brother officer. Brevet Lieut. -Colonel 

 F. Colvin, runs him close in this respect. 



There are many other good players in the 9th, 

 namely, Captain Allhusen, who won the Kadir Cup ; 

 Captain Hon. C. Willoughby, who played for his 

 regiment when they won at Hurlingham in 1891, and 

 in the final in 1893 j Lord Douglas Compton, who 

 obtained a Brevet Majority ; and younger players, 

 such as Lord F. Blackwood, D.S.O., and Sadleir 

 Jackson, D.S.O. The 9th sustained a sad loss in that 

 dashing polo player, P. Brassey, who was killed on the 

 relief of Kimberley. 



Like the 9th, almost all the 17th, from colonel to 

 last-joined subaltern, play polo. Sad to say, they have 



