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The Game of Polo (1897)

Dale, T. F. · Archibald Constable and Company (London) · leaf 245

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Recollections. and, Reflections. through an afternoon's’ polo on one pony, and players only paused when too exhausted to go on any longer. It was difficult to get together eight players for a team with anything like regu- larity, and when I first played the men were col> lected from all the… … among the most regular players we had. The regiment stationed there looked coldly on our efforts, and none of the subalterns joined us. By degrees, however, the game increased in popularity ; the regiment was relieved by the 11th, which had a good polo team, and they in their turn gave place to the…

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