[Pozarica-joel] ad give

Wed Mar 31 21:26:34 CEST 2010

S inside the Victoria race-course. Now the Polo Club owns a clubhouse
and a tip-top

ground not far from
the city. Ponies were rather difficult to get in those days, and when
you did get them
there was very little opportunity to train them. It was with
difficulty we managed to get one practice game a week with full
sides. Several of the members
of the Polo Club lived in the country,
and it
was difficult for them to spare the time to come into town for a
game; besides, it was a fairly expensive game. Still, we battled away
against all difficulties, and the game of polo was kept going in
South Australia while the richer and older colonies of New South
Wales and Victoria practically dropped it. Of recent years
polo has become a favourite pastime throughout Australia, especially
in many country districts, and after
the War will doubtless become one of its national games. At the close

of the hunting season I had turned
out Buckland and Satan for a long spell, and picked up four or five
ponies.
I got some stables put up at Fort Glanville. The splendid beach at
low tide afforded an excellent practice ground. The season moved
along all well; we had only one
severe accident. The game in those
days began by placing the ball on the
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