To the Editor of the Nonrit-Cuina Datty News."
Sin—The letter under this caption appearing in your issue of the 5th instant calls for comment. The writer as your old contributor "Polo Notes" whenever and wherever off-clating as an umpire "under the existing rules of Polo, will always penalize a player riding ahead of ball being hit up to him, who terferes in the slightest degree with fan opponent who is riding in the opposite direction to meet the ball The rules of Polo call for this and the offending player has no. status! whatever in the circumstances.
In the reply of Capt. White tomy! enquiry, which your correspondent quoted, Capt. White has not appreciated the point at'issue. The player riding ahead of the ball. has rights, as he says, but only to ride off an adversary going in the some direction. If Capt. White is understood to intimate that a player ing ahead of the ball has the th an opponent Tiding in the opposite direction to secure it, then I most emphatically disagree with any such understand-being entirely
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