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D.S.O., J. S. Cavendish, D.S.O., Lloyd Phillips and 

 Cookson ; the Hon. G. Ward and W. Waring. 

 Lord Lovat, late of the ist Life Guards, greatly 

 distinguished himself by raising and commanding 

 the invaluable Lovat Scouts. 



The 2nd Life Guards' polo players were represented 

 by Lord Longford, Captain Brinton, D.S.O., Captain 

 de Crespigny, D.S.O., Captain Spender Clay, Lord 

 Wicklow, Hon. A. O'Neill, Sir G. Prescott, the late 

 Captain R. Peel, and the late Lord Kensington. 



The Royal Horse Guards sent to the war many 

 officers, all of whom were polo players, as, for instance, 

 Lleut.-Colonel Fenwick, D.S.O., Captains Villiers 

 FitzGerald, Mann-Thomson, Hon. R. Ward, Ricardo, 

 Lord Tullibardine, D.S.O., the Duke of Roxburghe, 

 H. E. Brassey, Hon. D. Marjoribanks, D.S.O., and 

 A. Rose, and Vet. -Captain F. E. Drage. Marjori- 

 banks, Ward and Drage won the Subalterns' Cup at 

 Ranelagh in 1897 and 1898, their captain being poor 

 Ernest Rose, who was the only officer the Blues lost 

 during this campaign, and who was shot at the head of 

 his men. 



Major Bell-Smyth, Captain Lockett, D.S.O., D. A. 

 Rasbotham, and many other officers of the K.D.G.'s, 

 are keen polo players. 



The Bays, who are on their way to South Africa 

 while these lines are being written, have many well- 

 known polo players, such as Kirk, Persse, and 

 Wilberforce, who won the Indian Regimental Tourna- 

 ment in 1892, '93 and '94, and Major V. G. Whitla, 

 now of the 3rd Hussars, and Captains C. K. Bush 

 and Sykes. 



The 4th Dragoon Guards had lately an excellent 



