Polo Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 4 January 1898, Page 2

Polo Notes.

» ' A great deal of difference ia shown by polo players in the way they drive the ball along. Some drive the ball high in the air, others run it along the .ground. During a conversation with a very good player we asked his opinion and he declared in favour, in what he is a remarkably good hand at, in hitting the ball along the ground as there is not so much danger of obstruction, but tha grass wants to ba in first class order, otherwise the ball is soon stopped. In high hitting, the ball, once up ia safa from interference until it nears the ground, but just' after the hit and also as on falling, the ball being hit up id likely to be caught by any of the seven ponies and players. The question should be ona of interest to polo players. ';^ most carious goal was made jagjjlj ps .j5 r j?iHnfßtfln" pola team for tbP5

adversaries, the Manawatu learn, on Boxing Day. The ball had been knooked out by the Wellington team close to their goal and they j;hus bad the right to a hit. The Wellington j player rode his horse fast at the ./ ball and caught it a tremendous whack with tho stick, with the idea of driving it a3 far away from tho goal as possible, but, strange as it may sound, the ball when hit travelled some distance away from the goal and then returned and past 4 through the posts. The ball must have been bit very low and thus had a screw placed upon if, as in billiards, which made it act in the peculiar way it did.