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7. — No pony without an Indian Polo Association certificate or certificate of 

 measurement fourteen hands one inch, or under, from an authorised measurer of 

 the Association, or from an ofiicial measurer of the Calcutta or Western India Turf 

 Club granted since ist April, 1899, shall be allowed to play in a Tournament, 

 except when a local measuring is sanctioned. 



8. — The Honorary Secretary of a Tournament will be responsible that a fee of 

 Rs. 2 is collected for each pony, with a racing certificate, that has not been pre- 

 viously registered as a polo pony, before such pony is allowed to play. 



9. — A measuring of ponies for Indian Polo Association certificates by a selected 

 measurer, will be arranged and sanctioned, when possible, on any date, or at any 

 place it may be desired. Applications for such measurings should be made to the 

 Honorary Secretary, Indian Polo Association, if possible, one month before the 

 measuring is required. In the application, the number of ponies for which the 

 measuring is requisitioned, should be stated. 



10. — In the case of a tournament where an Indian Polo Association measuring 

 cannot be arranged, a local measurer will be appointed, whose measurements will 

 be accepted for that Tournament only. 



II. — Any team knowingly playing a pony in a Tournament that has not been 

 measured and passed in accordance with these rules, shall be disqualified for that 

 Tournament. 



RULES OF THE GAME OF POLO. 

 GROUND, ETC. 



SIZE OF THE GROUND. 



I . — The size of the ground shall be as nearly as possible 300 yards long and 200 

 yards broad. 



BOUNDARY LINES. 



2. — The four corners shall be marked by flags. The boundary lines joining the 

 corner flags shall be spitlocked, except between the goal posts, and inside the 

 subsidiary goal marks ; those marking the length of the ground shall be called the 

 side lines, those marking the breadth of the ground shall be called the back 

 lines. 



MARKING OF SIDE LINES. 



3. — Small flags shall be placed on each side line to mark points, which shall 

 be, 30 yards from each back line, 50 yards from each back line, and the centre 

 of each side line (centre flags). 



MARKING OF BACK LINES. 



4. — In the centre of each back line there shall be a goal, marked by goal posts, 

 which shall be at least ten feet high and twenty-two feet apart. Eleven feet from 

 the outside of each goal post, subsidiary goal marks will be shown on the ground 

 by a small white line perpendicular to the back line. 



GOAL LINE AND SUBSIDIARY GOAL LINE. 



5. — The line between the goal posts shall be called the goal line. The line 

 between the subsidiary goal mark and the goal post nearest to it, shall be called 



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