Related article: tain Renton made a splendid
series of strokes when he took the
ball round in a parabolic curve,
and scored the third goal, which
made the Cheap Viramune scores even at the end of
the fifth ten minutes. Only in
the last ten minutes did Hurling-
ham give way a little, and Win-
wick put up two goals in rapid
succession. The match was
marked by all the notes of a first-
class match. The pace was fast,
the score was low and even, and
the ball constantly in the middle
of the ground.
Some members of the Rugby
Club do not share my opinion that
they are not a county club, and
yet after turning the matter over
m my mind I cannot see it from
their point of view. No doubt
certain of their members reside in
Rugby for part of the year, but
residence does not make a man
the representative of Viramune 200 Mg a county
any more than a house in Paris
makes one a Frenchman. I
venture to suggest, as this
important subject is now under
consideration, that the idea of well-
known sportsmen and polo players
should be acted on, and that the Viramune Online
county qualification should be
made independent of grounds,
and simply rest on permanent
domicile. Suppose, for the sake of
example, that Leicestershire were
sending a polo team, Captain
Burns- Hartopp would occur to
everyone as a representative man.
We should all agree, on the
other hand, that Mr. Walter
Buckmaster, for instance — how-
ever identified with sport in the
Midlands, and however long the
occupant of a hunting - box —
would have to be in the team of
another county, certainly not in
a Northamptonshire one. Some
such classification as this, with
the further proviso that not more
than two men who had played
in the final tie of certain great
tournaments, should be in any
one team, would probably meet
the case. All names should
be submitted to the Hurlingham
Polo Committee, whose decision
would be final.
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To turn back to the play of the
month, the remarks made on the
Rugby tournament leave me but
little to say about the Warwick-
shire tournament at Leamington.
The Winwick team had Lord
Shrewsbury as No. i, who was
unfortunately put out of action in
the last ten minutes but one by a
blow from a ball on the knee-cap,
but, even with this mishap, they
had no difficulty in disposing of
the Rugby team ; the players,
with the one exception noted
above, being the same as those
already written down as playing
at Rugby. Both Rugby and War-
wickshire had handicap tourna-
ments which received good en-
tries, but were naturally, in the
main, of local interest.
The two new clubs. North Mid-
dlesex and Eden Park brought
their first season to a close with
gymkhanas on July 31st. Both
clubs have had an unqualified
success, and the North Middlesex
Club has a very good situation,
but they need a rather more level
ground. Their pony show and
gymkhana were a most undoubted
success, and Mr. Henry Grinling,
the President, and Dr. Hamilton
Allin, the Hon. Secretary, are to
be congratulated.
Turning now from the play of
the month to a short survey of
the season, it may be well to
note the lessons taught by the
play that is now over. The
first thing that strikes me is
to suggest that it would be a great
improvement if managers of clubs
would endeavour, during the com-
ing autumn and winter, to improve
their grounds near the goals.
This has been put into my mind
by the excellence of the Rugby
goals. Why not treat the two
goals something like a cricket
pitch, and take especial pains to
get the turf in their immediate
neighbourhood as true and level
as possible ? To improve a whole
ground up to the standard of Eden
Park or Rugby would be a very
laborious and expensive business,
and would take, moreover, a good
deal of time. To Viramune Xr level Buy Viramune that sec-
tion on which the posts are, would
be a much less extensive job. The
better the ground the better the
game, and it is to the recognition
of this fact that Rugby owes much
of its success. Another point on
which L will only touch lightly is
the necessity of having good um-
piring in a match. Nothing, for
example, could have better shown
how important this matter is than
the final at Rugby when the
Messrs. Miller umpired. Nothing
escaped them, all dangerous play,
or unconscious breach of the rules
was checked at once and every
appeal to the umpires brought a
ready decision.
I should also like to draw
the reader's attention to the suc-
cess scored at the R.A.S.E. show
by the institution of polo classes.
A polo pony show should be held,
if possible, by every club, or better
still, classes should be arranged
and prizes given by Polo Clubs
to their local shows. But in all
cases whether the club hold its own
show, as in the case of the North
Middlesex, mentioned above, or
prpvides for classes at local shows,
it should always be a condition
that the winner, if a mare or
stallion, should be registered in
the Polo Pony Stud Book. While
on the subject of polo ponies I
think every one must have been
struck with the steady improve-
ment in the quality of polo on
the whole. The good ponies
are better and there are fewer in-
different and bad ones brought
into the game. The imported
ponies have improved side by side
with the English, the North
American and Argentines brought
over this year being the best of
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their class I have ever seen.
Captain Kenton's Langousta, an
Argentine, is certainly, for ex-
ample, in the very front rank of
polo ponies of to-day.
The Arabs only seem to decrease,
but they are infusing most valu-
able strains into our polo pony
stock, and are in that way more
useful than they can be in the
game, with their dislike to soft
ground and want of pace at a
pinch.
Now that the season of 1897 is
over we may say it has been a