Enormous Crowd at the Race Course: Dathams Bedt Sharghai in Good Game When the Shanghai Polo Club does thing, it certainly does it] well, and the Gymkhana staged on Saturday proved quite the most suc-[cessful entertainment of that nature that one has seen locally. What is] more, from the remarks one heard en passant, it appears doubtful if [better show could have been put on. anywhere. Tt was only at the beginning of last week that it was dejeided to-have this Gymichana in hon-Jour of the departing Jhansi Brigade, and it takes no little time and trouble to organize such an affair. The arrangements, however, were left in. the very capable hands of Mr. B. H. McMichael and Mr. A. O.. Fisher, and, when these two gentlemen get to work, one can rest assured of an ultimate success. One is not sure [whether it was the brave display of bunting that attracted the crowd to [the polo grounds or whether it was really the promise of good fare in the way of entertainment; which jover it was, they stayed there till the twilight drew over the final proceedings and thoroughly did they enjoy themselves. As far as the members and their guests were concerned, the fair sex predominated land the fine music of the band of the Durham Light Infantry as well Jas the excellent tea provided con-[tributed far to their better enjoyment.
Durham Light infantry v, Shanghai _Poto Club Spectators were agog to see this hard fought game, which proved a ding-dong battle' throughout. In the first chukker the Durhams commenced pressing and soon scored. Heart, their No. 1, who was well mounted, again got' away and scor-fed with a long shot, Robinson being tunable to catch him. From the ensuing throw-in, the same player scored with a very fine cross-shot, the chukker thus ending 3-0 in Jour of the Army. In the next per-fod Shanghai played up for all they were worth, and managed to equal-zo, though one has an then that their success was greatly due to the Durhams No. 1 and No. 2 being less well mounted than they previously had been. Greig played the game lof his life at No. 1, despite the fact that he was very poorly mounted, Jand the combination throughout was excellent.. The third chukker saw Shanghai more on the defensive, though they got ahead by one coal in the early stages. One _néticed Robinson playing a very cool game with clever brainwork, and McMich-
{in combination with him was} ing a tremendous amount of work, Heart and Ware for the Durhams were very clever and between the two of them they managed to. add two more goals to their score, thus ending the jchokker 5-4 in their favour, The final period commenced with some ron-descriptive.play, when Percy hit a back-hander, "which found Beact lying well up and unmarked, from which he was able to register fan easy goal. One found out subsejauently that the pony Heart was riding in this chukker was one that] is excellent whilst on his own, but will not go into the rough play' and Iméiee. He certainly served his jer well for the Durhams were score, in, their skipper, scor-fabled to add three to th
ing " particularly pretty goal with shot under his pony's body.
An excellent match thus ended in Jthe Durham's favour by 8-4. Now this is no disgrace to Shanghai, who have improved enormously in combination, and their stick-work was every whit as good as their oppon-fents. Strangely enough, they appeared to be the worse mounted of the two teams, though their ponies may possibly have been the faster when it came to a chase, they were Yar less handy and very' dificult to turn and get quickly: off the mark, The better team won, there is doubt, but the score is no criterion fof what was one of the best games 4 witnessed in this Settlement.
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