Red Room and Other Chat 27 



year the " blue and white " have played a strong 

 game. 



The Myopia polo team has never failed to throw 

 down the gauntlet at Newport, the nerve centre 

 of summer polo, in every tournament since 1889. 

 Thus we have seen polo lifted from the merriment 

 of a burlesque to the serious drama of a champion- 

 ship. 



Some of the polo-field talk under excitement or 

 disgust would appear far from pretty in print ; but 

 we will draw the veil. It is pleasant to record the 

 carriage of the captain of a visiting team. As he led 

 his defeated quartette off our field, subjected to the 

 misfortune of a " goose egg " for a game score, he 

 jocundly remarked, " A most brilliant defeat ! " Such 

 men are blessed with a temper which suggests the 

 line, " Can make to-morrow as cheerful as to-day." 

 The " to-morrow" was cheerful, as Myopians know, 

 for he brought his team up to a point of skill that 

 won victory, obtained his sporting revenge, as well as 

 a reward for his buoyancy of spirit under defeat. 



At Gibney Farm House the Red Room was born 

 with all its fascinations, even to the ladies. May it 

 always be painted red. Here the object talkers most 

 do congregate, and the noise and din is such that 

 even a stock-broker might fear to enter ; yet it is 

 very much like the " Board," all sports being dealt 

 in, besides horses and ponies. In early polo days one 



