352 APPENDIX. 



QUALIFICATION OF PLAYERS IN A COUNTY TEAM FOR CHALLENGE CUP. 



{a) That he be a resident in the County, or 



{/)) That he owns or holds land in the County, or 



(c) That he resides within 20 miles of the County Polo Ground. 



(d) Officers of Army quartered in a County not to be counted as resident. 



(e) Adjutants of Militia Regiments, Resident Magistrates and officers of 



R.I.C. are counted as residents. 



Members of Clubs not qualified as above, but who are living outside the 

 boundary of the County whose Club they support, are members of, and on whose 

 ground they play regularly, may play for that County, provided they send their 

 names before the Committee of the Irish County Polo Club Union and obtain 

 their sanction. 



Each Member of a Team competing for the Challenge Cup must have played 

 on the County Club Ground at least six times during the season. A Member of 

 a Club playing in a Match for his County Club, previous to the Competition for 

 the Challenge Cup, may count it as playing once on his County Ground, though 

 the Match was not played on the County Ground. 



Officers of the Army and Navy may play for their native County, provided 

 they have played in 12 Games during the Season on the County Club Ground. 



RULES AND CONDITIONS OF IRISH COUNTY POLO CLUB UNION. 

 NOVICES' TOURNAMENT, 1901. 



I. — A Novices' Tournament will be held each year, open to Counties belonging 

 to the Irish County Polo Club Union. Entrance, £2.. 



II. — Each member of the winning team will receive a cup, to become his 

 property. 



III. — Not more than one player is eligible in each team who has played in any 

 of the following Tournaments : — Hurlingham — Champion, Regimental or Social 

 Cups ; Ranelagh — Open, Subalterns', or Hunt Cups ; Dublin — Open, County, 

 Regimental, or Subalterns' Cups ; Paris — International Tournament ; Rugby — 

 Rugby Tournament ; India — Regimental Tournament. 



IV. —Same rules and qualifications as laid down for players in a County Cup 

 team. 



V. — The Ties to be played on County Club grounds. 



VI. — The following counties to form the Northern Division : — Antrim, Derry 

 Fermanagh, Sligo, Westmeath. Manager for Northern Division, C. K. O'Hara, 

 Annaghmore, Collooney, Sligo. The following counties to form the Southern 

 Division : — Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, King's County, Wexford. 

 Manager for Southern Division, W. Lindsay, Kildraught House, Celbridge. 



VII. — Entries to close with the Managers on June 1st. 



VIII. — The two Divisions to play the ties separately, as directed by the 

 Managers. 



