Colonel Fisher-Childe 



An enthusiast at polo, he played for many years for his 

 regiment, and captains the Cheltenham Court Polo Team at 

 the present time. 



Colonel Yardley, when up at Cambridge, rowed in the 

 Trinity boat ; played football occasionally for the 'Varsity 

 team, and was, and is still, an adept at racquets and 

 tennis. 



When, in addition, we mention that besides being sporting 

 editor of the Cavalry Journal, he wrote, amongst others, that 

 amusing and largely read book, entitled, "With the Inniskilling 

 Dragoons in South Africa," we have said sufficient, we fancy, 

 to prove that for a " man of many trades and master of them 

 all," it would be hard to find the superior of Lieut. -Colonel 

 John Watkins Yardley. 



COLONEL FISHER-CHILDE 



If ever the familiar expression "hard lines" may be fairly 

 said to have been a propos^ it was when the gallant officer 

 named above, at once one of the most brilliant and popular 

 horsemen in the Service — or out of it for that matter — riding 

 in a trial over fences on Mr. Arthur Yates's private course 

 at Bishops Sutton, fell and broke his leg, thereby effectually 

 preventing his arriving at the summit of his ambition, and 

 winning the Grand National on his own horse. As a conse- 

 quence, Roquefoot, who was to have been the means of 

 effecting this desirable consummation, and who had already 

 run third in the great event in the hands of Childe in 1884, 



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