Sunday's sporting event wai undoubtedly the appearance Chinese Army Polo team on the ground at Kiangwan and its creditable performance against a strong local side. The 32nd Regiment has been playing polo for only a year and lis representatives came all the way from Peiping to play the Shanghai team, Modern polo is a vastly differ-lent game from that which, according to tradition, was played in China over a thousand years ago. Then, it ig understood, the goal was formee by "two pasis with a boarding between, in the latter a hole being cut and a'net attached to it in the form a bag." The side which hit the Dall into the bag were the winners. And the teams were not limited to the modest four who comprise the niodern polo side. Polo is essentially an army gate and nothing can better conduce to the cultivation of the qualities which go to the making of the dashing and resourceful soldier than the ancient game of polo in its modern guise. This has recently been discovered in Russia where, with dramatic encouragement from Mr. W. C. Bullitt. as Ambassador of the leading polo country in the world to-day, the Ruslan Army has taken to polo with considerable enthusiasm and success. "Although victory did not come the way of the Chinese officers on Sunday at Kiangwan, they showed such form, after their brief apprenticeship to the game, that they clearly will become formidable 0 ponents in the future. Meanwhile they may be assured that the tribute ald to their sportsmanship by General Wu Te-chen will be warmly endorsed by a community which regards sport as a most valuable solvent Japanese entente to which recent fof all Kinds of present difficulties—international, economic, and social
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