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. i897.] THE CLOSE OF THE POLO SEASON. 209 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 2IO BAILY S MAGAZINE. [September 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