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PENG PR 14 POLO NOTES . END OF LONDON SEASON - RUGBY WEEK . The season in London is now over and the scene of hostilities is transferred to the Pro - 1 vinces , the Rugby Tournament , which com mences on August 3rd , being the most important of the country gatherings . Viewed solely from a polo point of view the season in London which has just closed must be written down in every way satisfactory , for the class which we have seen out has been of an all - round high standard of excellence and the nett result of all the various tournaments leaves us with the satisfactory information that we have at least three teams , possibly even four , that are good enough to tackle any invading force , however strong . The four teams , we name are Lord . Wimborne's international four , the Old Can tabs , the 12th Lancers , and the Cavalry Club ; and it is necessary to include the last - named even though it must obviously be a shifting quantity and through force of circumstance may not be able to put as strong a unit in the field next season . But as they were the runners up for the championship and put up an extremely fine fight against the Napoleons of the English Polo World , they of course come into the front rank and must be classed with the best . The all - conquering 12th Lancers team stand second only to the International Four , a position they have manfully earned and to which they are justly entitled . In black and white they are the superiors of the Old Cantabs , and though the latter have displayed a most confusing in and - out form all through this season , on the day that the 12th beat them in the semi - final of the Coronation Cup the Light Blue champions were not off their game . The accident to Mr. Buckmaster which occurred in the second chukker did not , in our pinion , in any way influence the result , for although he was shaken the fall was not a really bad crunipler , as this fine player's subsequent performances in , the match showed us . We consider any one of these four teams good enough to take on any four that America may end over next year or the year after , and the opinion expressed in these columns at the time when Lord Wimborne was in such a tight place and almost compelled to abandon his expedi tion we still adhere to , namely , that if the Old Cantabs had done what they ought to have done they would have been able to bring back the cup to England . We have no intention of Blogging a dead horse , but we cannot refrain from the hope that we shall never again be witnesses of a similar situation as that which then obtained . In all sport the common weal and not the individual must be placed first , and that petty personal differences should have been permitted to rank before patriotism is atache on the shield of English sportsmanship which takes a good deal of rubbing out . When the season opened minus the four fine exponents who were detailed for foreign service against America the Old Cantabs seemed to be almost in the position of that unfortunate gentleman , Alexander , weeping because there were no more worlds to conquer : but their soli tary victory was a new Championship , though in the England v . Ireland match three - quarters of the English team were Old Cantabs . The challengers of their supremacy turned up in the 12th Lancers , whose chances even in inter regimental polo were reckoned second only to those of the 15th Hussars . The total collapse of the five teams was almost unaccountable , for or last year's form no one would have given the 1st Life Guards anything more than an out side chance of defeating them . The form the Householders displayed against the 15th , and again in the final of the Inter - Regimental , was a surprise to everyone , perhaps also to the 1st Life themselves . In the early stages of the final of the Inter - Regimental they fairly and squarely galloped the tails off the fastest and best mounted team in all England , and it was only the fine defence and subsequent brilliant counter attack of the rath's forwards , of whom Captain Reggie Badger stands out by himself , that en abled the light bobs to win this hard - fought Austerlitz . Captain Astor's Indian expériences brought him in a lot , and he learnt the value of their fast galloping attack in that home of polo which has turned out all the best ex ponents of the game . Lord Hugh Grosvenor also showed excellent form , and Major Brassey , their back , is a master of defence and possesses the priceless gift of being able to keep his hair on at the moment when it is needed most and the enemy are indulging in " tapid independent . The International Selection Committee , which we hope to see appointed , when next we have to repel the invader , will be embarrassed only by a plethora of riches , and if instead of trust ing to muddling through somehow we set about picking our team early we ought to be able to put one of the finest fighting forces into the ring that has ever been known in the annals " of the game at home . Yourg Cs llag was the man of the situation on Sunday : he rede no less than four winners ! He started off the good work with Ibn Sandi who wen for Mr. MBE . Sparke . The chestnut had run for the first time some two or three years ago without much success and was turned out and seld for pelo . purnoses Chasing a polo ball seems to he good training for certain ani mals . Indging by the ease of his suc cess He heat Gravling on whom Sharre tried to persua ' e himsel and others . a furlong from heme . het he had the measure of everything . On the nest he wos 2 leneths behind Thn Sandi with Bishr a very good 3rd , Tf I had the pick of the lot I would choose the latter . Ibn Havan was ne ver in the picture , Be prepared to see M.E.B. Sparke . making sure of becoming leading Cairo 1934 . Jockey 10 60 amateur M.E.B.S. after winning the above muce . WELL AT BIR SEYALA . 62 65 HURGHADA RECCE B Sqr ZAFARANA LIGHT HOUSE 1933 64 NEAR GEBEL ZEIT BAY VM DISIS |
