"FINEST GAME IN WORLD."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 5

"FINEST GAME IN WORLD."

VETERAN EXTOLS POLO. APPEAL TO NEW ZEALANDERS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE ABOHA, Saturday. "I appeal to all parents here to-day to give their boys every encouragement to play polo," said Captain A. P. White, president of the Waimai Polo Club, in an address at the Herriesville polo ground on the final day of the tournament. Captain White, who has had 50 years' playing experience of polo in many countries, said he thought it was a great .pity that parents did not encourage their sons to take more interest in the game, which called for the highest qualities of manliness and courage. The young man of to-day was too much attracted to the valueless pleasures of attendance at cinemas and the driving of motor cars. "If our Xew Zealand boys," said Captain White, "could be encouraged to play the game of polo, which is enjoying a long-overdue revival in every country in the world, I am sure New Zealand as a nation would be immeasurably benefited. For this reason I appeal to all parents here to-day to give their boys every encouragement to play polo. It is the finest game in the world, and calls for speed, coolness, and courage—qualities which are vital to the maintenance of the prestige of New Zealand's fine athletic record in all parts of the world."