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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 1

MnTOR-CA.lt I,ON DON. -July I‘. T!h' "roiuoit laughter-making turn in the cirrus ;it- Wembley is one winch hns never been seen in a circus before. It the talk of all who have been to see tile circus. Four cars are employ-oil, each hava driver and a player who stands hcTdnd him armed with a polo stick. ’1 lie cars leap forward and rush down the Held, the drivers apparently regardless of Whole they are going, the players shouting and brandishing their slick' round their heads. They rniss each other h\ inches, turn completely round in then own length without slowing down stop dead and jump ahead attain like marionettes on strings. . . , Sometimes the eats collide '> and tv res are hurst, hut the turn goes on. Smashed radiators, too, are •pine common. 'Hie spectators ga-ped yesterday as they imagined that one driver had lost control and was going to run over one 01 the clowns who was holding up a coal post, hut at the last second the clown fell over and rolling out of the way. ran screaming to the -nle. The hall ill this motor polo is hit with astounding accuracy and the dnvin r is .the most skilful seen nnvw lie re. Neither side is able to win. for ust as a gaol is about to be shot the downs drop the goal-posts, and run ,-vvav—hut that does not seem to damp ho spirits of the players.