Southern) and Mrs. Southern' arrived just before the match started, interested. spectators] throughout. The Keswick Cup was} presented to the Captain of the winning team. by Mrs. Comyn.
In asking Mrs. Comyn to discharge this. pleasant function, His Excellency the General Officer Commanding (Major-General C. C, Luard' gave some interesting particulars respecting the trophy. He mentioned that it was given by Mr, Henry Keswick in 1907 for Interport Polo competitions between Shanghai and Hongkong. Shanghai had won i seven times, five years jin suecession—this being their sixth successive victory—and Hongkong! had won it twice. Hongkong last went to Shanghai in 1924 and ware defeated. Owing to various ree no. match had taken places until this year.
The. General said he thought they] [would all agree that it, very sporting of Shanghai to come down "Fas this year and. take, the cup away!
(Laughter.) He understood. that they had been somewhat handicapped by being unable to bring down some of their best ponies, However, og things had turned out, that did' not-matter very much.
With. regard to the game, up to/f half-time, there was-not much in ity but he regretted to say that afterwards the Hongkong representatives seemed to feel the heat and Shang: hai had it much their own way. congratulated the visitors on their] victory.
The General went on to say that] when fie came to the Colony first] about two years ago polo was played entirely by civilians, but at the present time there was hardly a civilian player. The one notable exception was their hon. secretary, Mr. Ste ton. Things, however, were looking up now, and he hoped to see more civilians playing the game and thus helping them win the cup back from Shanghai, (Hear hear). The General expressed. thanks to Mr, Stanton for all the hard work ho had done for the club in the position of hon. secretary, and then asked Mrs. Comyn to present the cup to Mr. Robinson.
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