Fifty-One to Eight
Only eight men are required to play a polo game, with three officials, of course, to officiate, but it requires 51 men to keep the playing field in shape as the crowd at International Field saw when England met America last month. Regular polo followers night not have been surprised, but the casuals were struck by the number of ground tenders that rushed on the field after the first chukker. Each man was armed with a stamper and each was supposed to tamp down the uprooted turf, and so they swarmed over the field busily engaged in replacing the turf that the horses’s hoofs had dug up. Like a battalion of soldiers the stampers advanced across the field, but in place of rifles and bayonets they were armed with heavy flat-bottomed clubs that soon restored the turf to its former carpet-like appearance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 10
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145Fifty-One to Eight Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 10
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