304 POLO ABROAD. [Chap. XII I. 



Rules governing play were revised, dimensions of 

 grounds agreed upon, implements used in the game 

 defined and Association prizes offered. 



" The American Polo Association has accomplished 

 wonders during the decade just closed in the matter of 

 its membership, clubs having been organised under 

 the Association's auspices in almost every State in the 

 Union. Its influence has been far reaching, and the 

 tournaments held on the grounds of the several clubs 

 as mutually agreed upon by delegates at the annual 

 conventions have brought about a degree of public 

 approval of the sport far greater than its most ardent 

 sponsors ever anticipated. Counting the active parti- 

 cipants at present included on the handicap lists, and 

 the many club members who take part in occasional 

 games only, and therefore have expressed a desire to 

 be dropped from club schedules, and adding to these 

 the many players who are not attached to any regular 

 organisation, it is safe to say that fully five hundred 

 polo players could, if necessary, be got together in this 

 country." 



Mr. W. A. Hazard, of 29, Broadway, N. Y., is now 

 the Honorary Secretary of the American Polo Asso- 

 ciation. 



During the season 1901 American polo players took 

 part in tournaments held on the grounds of twenty 

 clubs for thirty-five sets of cups and other special 

 prizes, involving one hundred contests. 



"In many respects the season just closed has been a 

 most remarkable one. The schedule of one hundred 

 games actually played shows an increase of ten over 

 what were negotiated last year, and twenty-five more 

 than were decided in 1899. Seventy games were 



