COUNTY POLO ASSOCIATIOxN. 349 



MEMBERSHIP. 



6, — Any Club desiring to join the Association shall send in an application to 

 the Secretary, who shall bring it before the Committee at their next Meeting for 

 consideration. 



RULES. 



7. — Polo Clubs joining the Association shall play under Hurlingham Rules. 



TOURNAMENT. 



8. — A County Cup Tournament shall be held annually, to compete for a Chal- 

 lenge Cup, which shall be held by the winning team for the year. The Tourna- 

 ment shall consist of Preliminary ties — Semi-finals — and a Final to be played as 

 follows : — 



DIVISIONS. 



9. — For the purposes of the Tournament, the County shall be divided into 

 four divisions : — ^Northern, Midland, South-Eastern, South-Western, and a map 

 with the divisions marked thereon shall be forwarded to each Honorary 

 Divisional Secretary. 



DIVISIONAL SECRETARIES. 



10. — Honorary Divisional Secretaries shall be appointed to arrange for ties to be 

 played in their respective divisions by the 30th June in each year between all the 

 clubs desiring to compete. The semi-finals and final matches to be played at 

 Hurlingham in July. 



CLUBS OPEN TO PLAY IN TOURNAMENT. 



II. — The County Cup Tournament shall only be open to Clubs that have joined 

 the Association. 



QUALIFICATION OF PLAYERS. 



12. — No one shall be eligible to play for his Club for the Coimty Cup unless 

 he has played regularly in games or matches during the current season on his Club 

 Ground. The word "regularly" shall mean not less than eight times, or has 

 played more frequently on his Club ground than elsewhere, and such attendance 

 shall nullify Rule 16. Ponies played in the ties of the County Cup Tournament 

 shall belong to a member of the competing Club. 



13. — No one shall be eligible to play who, during the current or previous two 

 years, has played in the finals of the following Tournaments : — 

 The Champion Cup at Hurlingham. 

 The Ranelagh Open Cup. 

 The Open Cup in Dublin. 

 The Inter-Regimental Tournament, Hurlingham. 



14. — An Officer belonging to a Regiment which has no Polo Team in the 

 United Kingdom, but otherwise qualified, may play. 



15- — The fact of an officer being quartered in the neighbourhood does not con- 

 stitute a residential qualification, with the exception that an Officer with a 

 Militia, Volunteer, Yeomanry or Staff appointment for not less than three years, 

 and who has not played for his Regiment in the Regimental Tournament of the 

 same year, is eligible to play for his Club. 



