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THE CHINA

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POLO FLOURISHING IN AMERICA.

One of Most Popular Sports.

LOSING GROUND IN ENGLAND.

LURE OF THE STRAITS. Channel swimming, 'It is said, is Polo la flourishing to such an The following have been select-

the

Some declare extent in America that they are! ed to play in the first Interport on Trial Match on Saturday at the that it has become commonplace. wondering when the Challenge Cup Hong Kong Cricket Club. PlayIt is true that this has not been a will next leave their shores, and will commence at 11.30 a.m. and distinguished year. Although over they are not without renson in hav÷ tiffin will be served in the Parja period of fifty-six years about ing this view of their complete

150 or more attempts, I believe, supremacy over England. tion:-

Polo has become in America and Mr. H. R. B. Hancock's XI.-S. have been made, only seventeen Ismail R.C.), II, Owen Hughes entrante claim to have swum the of the most popular of sports while |(B.K.C.C.), A. Minu (L.R.C.). A. C. English Channel from England to in England the game is rather los- ing than gaining ground. The Beck (H.K.C.C.), D. J. N. Ander-France or vlee, versa, jeon (U.). E. 1. Duckitt (11.K.C.C.). No other strip of water in the Americans base their superiority on a lure the fact that they teach their play- R. II. Grifiths (C.3.C.C.), F.world has exercised such

It has broughtiers the game when young, the tinfo Zimmern (K.C.C.), G. G. Burnett as the Straits. [(K.C.C.), H. P. Līm (C.C.C.), and twinmera from all parts of the when all who wish to become pro A. C. I. Bowker (II.K.C.C.). globe to attempt its cong eat. ficient in any sport should begin. Mr. T. E eure's XI.:-Capt Success is accepted as the greatest The last English polo team averaged G. E. Mirehouse (HCC), A. distinction to be gained in the in age 40 ns against the Americans'

The Channel, 26. Reid (H.K.C.C.), F. D. Pereira swimming world.

of late

has By the time, a player is beginning. years (1.E.C.), O. G. Simpson (H.K.C.C.), crossing A. H. Madar (1.R.C.), E. J. R.' certainly been, accomplished by to pick up the rudiments of the Mitchell (LK.C.C.), F. Goodwin rather surprising numbers, and in gamo in England, he is in the (K.C.C.), E. F. Fincher (K.C.C.). many cases by women, but a cross- States a Anished exponent of the J. C. Lyal (K.C.C.), W. Rigg Channel swim from France to Eng-game, and the holder of a handicap (HL.K.C.C.), and J. E. Richardson land, over a course wherein the as high as players in England of (O.S.C.C.).

working of the eurrents is now so more than twice his age. In the accurately known, has not all the States many a boy learns to wield difficulties of old times.

a mallet long before he knows how to drive a car, and the first thing To swim the Channel as once it the well-known players of yore do was understood one should emulato for their sons la to give them a Capt. Webb's feat of 1875, and get mount and stick a mallet in their from England to France across a hand. In this respect, there are) of young Milburns, Devereux, von piece of water the currenta

Stades, and Webba, now learning to which are but little known,

Webb's record stood ubroken for become the worthy sons of their thirty-six years before T. W. worthy aires.

AFGHAN HOCKEY SIDE.

National Team for Los Angeles Meet.

KING'S INTEREST.

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Burgess, in 1911, accomplished the Among the competitors for the Afghanistan will be represented swim from Eugland to France. He American Open Champichship will at the Olympic Games in Los Ange had made nineteen attempts before be Laddle Sanford's "Hurricanes" les next year if tentative plans guccess came to him, writes Alfred Who will be composed of the three mature the present intention being founs in the Daily Telegraph. well-known internationals, Captain to send a hockey team. It will be This feat was again accomplished Pat Roark, Bobby Strawbridge, the first time that Afghanistan will by If. Sullivan in 1923, over the Winston Guest and Laddie Sanford be represented In International same course.

The task requires himself. Such

A combination is

sport of any kind, and, indeed, sport grit, dogged determination, bound to take a deal of beating. The of this type is practically unknown stamina, courage, and patience, and Hurricanes have won the American in Afghanistan, except for a little such a combination is to be found Open three times in the last five years, and they also proved victor- football and hockey in Kabul itself. in but few athletes. The moving spirit in this ambitious,

If a Channel crossing by swim-lous in the Champion Cup at Hur- project is apparently Syed Mahom ming has so often been attended by lingham in 1927, 1928 and 1980. ed Yusuf, who, as S. M. Yusuf, will failure, there are other means of This year, composed of Roark, Sun- ford, Wing Commander P. K. Wise be well remembered as the former accomplishing it.

A week or Lahore Government College and so ago the young Austrian, Karl and Captain D. J. E. Norton, they Cambridge University player, who Naumestnik, walked across the were defeated 6-4 by the Merchis- proved such a valuable aid to the water. But skis used for that ton four, John Traill, Humphrey Indian Olymple team which won the purpose are no new device. world's championship at Amster feat was accomplished by a Mr. and Captain H. N. Scott-Robson. dam in 1928. As his chief helper Fowler, an American, in 1878, who

The Guinness, Cuptain J. F. Sanderson

It is reported that Laddie San-

he has Abdul Wahid, the old walked the Channel on what he ford has now left England for good, Cambridge Blue, who also used called a "podoścaph.”

With this and that all his ponies are to be America. This to be very well-known in Lahore Ingenious contrivance he stood up-shipped back to hockey eireles and who played in right, carrying a paddler, which decision will come as a great blow

The used as a

hours.

the trials there.

man would in pro-10 polo enthusiasts at Hurlingham Two other good players are avail- pelling a canoe,

He reached Sand-where "Laddie" was a most popular jable in Kabul, and on this slender?

gate from Boulogne in twelve figure..

The colourful Gauchos of the foundation Yusuf has proceeded to build up a team, the present;

Paul Boyton's india-rubber ault Argentine Pempas are now in the strength of which appears to afloated him successfully from Dover U.S.A. as they have accompanied proximate to that of a moderato to Calais in 1875. Long prior to the Santa Paula team (who beat the club side in India. The firet official this hazardous task Boyton had dis- Harricanes in the Open) now tour- trial of the provisional team was tinguished himself as Captain of ing the States in charge of the played

the Life-Saving Services of Atlantic ponies. These South American cow- Kabul before a large crowd, opposi-City, U.S.A., and had saved a num- boys in their black, wide-brimmed tion being provided by a British ber of drowning persons.

With hate, gold gemmed jackets, expan- Embassy team, The result was a his "Merriman" life-saving suit hesive breeches and glistening high- draw of two goals all, Wahid scor- failed at the first attempt to cross heeled boots serve under a figura ing twice for Kabul and Captain the English Channel, but his second who is identified with the Argen- į Farwell twice for the Embassy, who effort was crowned with success. were very hard pressed throughout

the on

the second half.

Maidan .in

The Afghan side were exactly the same 'colours

itional sides.

tine's rise to fame in the polo, world.

This gentleman is Jack Nelson who,

The first to arouse public inter- at one time a famous player, is now est a quite another form of Chan-manager-coach and master of horse as do Cambridge net sport was Lord Desborough, of the famous Santa Paula Four. University and they were not un- who stroked an Oxford eight across It was Jack Nelson who in 1922 like those of the Indian Interna- to France in 4 hours 22 min. There took a team of Argentines across was a lull in the excitement of the Atlantic for their first Inter- The difficulty presumably willing these

Cross-Channet expeditions, rational Tournament and carried to raise the necessary funds, but until the Rev. 8. Swann,

an old them to victory in the Champion. the project will have the greatest Cambridge Blue, on September 12, ship Cup. He it was who rode with sympathy of hockey players in 1911, established a record by row-the same team in the American India. The Afghan side could ing from Dover to Calpis in a 20-ft. Open when it reached the final, only to be beaten by a Hitchcock-Milbura hardly hope to work wonders at Lo skiff in 3 hours 50 min.

Angeles next year, but Yusuf con- A little later two Frenchmen, combination, and he it was who led

siders that the effort will be worth

rowed from another Argentine Four to victory Peron and Levy, while, though unless the Interna- Boulogne to Folkestone and back in in the final of the Olympic Tourna- tional Olympic Committee give very

a double sealling skiff. Following, ment in 1024.

Jack Nelson is without a doubt special permission, he himself will

one of the figure-heads in the polo not be able to play, having already came a variety of this class of ad-

venture. represented India in the Olymple Frenchman, rowed from Boulogne world, and it is England who can to Folkestone in a light outrigger lay claim to this celebrity, for he King Nadir Shah himself is very skiff, Bft. long, in six hours and a was born in London of British parents. However, he is without a keen on encouraging the games and half.

doubt responsible for the high poal-

games.

Kabul Government.

Onions, Charles

A

gives the organisers active support Then came the Frenchman, by atending their matches with bla staff.

Yusuf and Wahid both hold Bleriot, who on July 5, 1909, few tion the Argentine holds in the polo the Channel from France to Dover. world to-day. Polo was begun in official appointments under the Miss Trehawke Davies was the first Buenos Aires as early as 1886. when | a team of English sportsmen intro- ад duced the game, which has now It is not improbable that there lady to cross the Channel in

aeroplane. The first air passenger become a national pastime. ere at least a handful of hockey to be, carried across was a M. players in various centres in North- ern India who are eligible to play Dupre, the pilot being Mr Gustav for Afghanistan, so that if this Hamel, an 80 h.p. two-seater Bleriot unique entry is confirmed. Yusus monoplane, starting from Dover, being used. A new ora had open will be able to raise a much strong- er alde than that which Is 'now) being trained in Kabul.

ed.

George Dorcar's tip to avoid. tec-itis"-searching for a tee after the ball has been driven-s to loosen it after placing it in pool- tion when the ground is hard. It avaids jar. The tip may be help-

This development has been men- Whatever I do I would rather be ful, but few golfers awing the club tloned to the councillors of the a professional than an amateur as truly as Duncan-Anthony Indian Hockey Federation, and they that is, take it really seriously Spalding." auggest an Invectigation of the pos- rather than as a pastime. I do

If you want to win matches sibility of the Kabul team's being not believe that amateur boxing invited to play one or two matches 18 nearly so good a training for Soccer you must find your man; More the rest is easy. The team which In Northern India, and of a Federa- character as, professional. tlon XI of suitable strength visit than anything else in the world learns how to find its man can ́éz- ing Kabul if the authorities there professional boxing teaches you ploit all sorts of manoeuvred

Andy Wilson agreeable.

ta, concentrate.—Toddy "John.

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