3IO • POLO ABROAD. [Chap. XIII. 



THE COLONIES. 



Polo flourishes at all the military stations, such as 

 Gibraltar, Malta, Cairo, Alexandria, Wady Haifa, 

 Suakim, Khartoum, Samoa, Jamaica, Aden, Singapore, 

 Hong Kong and Shanghai ; and soldiers and civilians 

 play whenever they can. It is popular in Canada, 

 Burma, the West Indies, and British Columbia. All 

 over Australia and New Zealand flourishino; clubs 

 abound, and hold tournaments and matches. 



The w^ar has stopped polo to a great extent in South 

 Africa, where it was played at Cape Town, Durban, 

 Maritzburg, Harrismith, Johannesburg, Kimberley, 

 Estcourt, Grey town, and many other places. Even 

 now, in all standing camps, games are got up as a 

 matter of course. An officer in a colonial corps told 

 me that he had often taken part in a brush with the 

 enemy in the morning, and played polo in the after- 

 noon. In the near future South Africa will be a great 

 polo country, because good and cheap grounds can be 

 obtained in plenty, and the climate is perfect for the 

 game all the year round. 



FRANCE. 



Mr. Rene Raoul Duval, who fell in love with the 

 game when he was staying with the 7th Hussars in 

 India, started polo in Paris in 1892 with a few other 

 keen sportsmen, and an international tournament took 

 place the following year (p. 328). 



The early pioneers of polo in France were the three 

 brothers Raoul Duval, Prince de Poix, Vicomte de la 

 Rouchefoucauld, Due de Luynes, M. Boussod, Marquis 

 de Villaviega and his two brothers E. and P. 

 d'Escandon, Luis d'Errazu, Baron le Jeune, Baron 



