POLO NOTES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 14

POLO NOTES.

The end of the polo Hsasoii is in sight, and will bo much regretted by all the members. Tho Ithodea Cup and Steap Cup tournaments start on Tuesday, Man ill 28th, and with favourable weather should be finished ,by the following Saturday, i Tho teams competing should give from now on every attention to tlioir ponies arul some slight attention to themselves. Pareora and Christ<Jiurch, who have met on several occasions this year, have demonstrated tlio fact the latter team has improvod very much in form. Either that or Pareora ha« not. yet found its legs. Christchurch B team; who have been giving their first team a good deal of practice, are not mean' opponents, and on one or two occasions have held their own gallantly. Hangiora. have deciced to onter a team for tho tournamont, and'fit is with great difficulty they havo got i enough players. It mu&t bo voryi disappq nting to them, as several members aTo very enthusiastic, and it is very unfair to these men for tho others to stand dqwn ae thoy do. Arauri will be strorger thia year than last, as they have been putting in some good solid praotice, and havo some very- fine players amongst th«m. The Pareora team, '.which is comprised of all old players, aro sura to put up a very good cxhibiiion. Their knowledge of the game after playing so long together is worth a good many goals to them. Their ! second team is also good, and their display j in tho tournament is. looked forward to with | pleasure. Christchurch teapi, whioh has been playing quite up fa form this eeasop, will give a good account of itself in the. tournament. Their fecond team, whioh will be-composed of junior players, with & generous handicap should do very well.; They have had soma coaching by .one of the older members, whioh has improved their play tremendously. There havo boon about the utfmanageableness of sonjo of! the ponies which have beon played lately. The captain or tha officials should oortainlj see that no ponies are played which have not a certain amount of. field tnanncjrs, as is, spoils tho pleasure of tha flfl wolj aj: boing extremely danr gerouy. '

Dr. E. '.lf. Dillon, who is one of the best knovp living writers on international subjects and as a journalist ' has travelled all over tlie world—for many yeairs in the interests of the 1 "Daily Telegraph'!—tells the following story, concerning himself. A leading American lawyer was warning him against going to Mexico because of tho conditions j existing there. An English journalist jof the j name of Danall or Dalinn, siiid the lawyer, was invited by the Pivjsident :to lunch or dinner, and the members: of the Administration who disliked the journalist poisoned him. Dr. Dillon was asked if he had ever met that journalist. "Yes." lie replied, "and the newß of bis death came to ma from; a Russian princess. The details were ijlightiy, different/fox he was stated to have dropped; dead. His name, too, was -a little different—it was Dr. E. J.; Dillon." The good citizens of Blenheim are apparently afflicts with "nerves." Says the 'lSxpresii" The canine .concert party which recently gave a serjeis of midnight: entertainments in the centre of Blenlieim, Jj,as returned to town, evidently after a country tour, and opened a return r season during the week. The basso-prqfundo or the troupe ie noticeeMy suffering from a" relaxed throat, but the other members of the party are in better voice than over, and succeeded in calling down tho maledictions of everyone within hearing. ; Marshal Foch was soundly scolded the other evening hy a woman attendant at the Theatre Francsais, Paris, He was sitting in the front row of the stalls, and at tbe beginning of the last act had brought lis overcoat from the cloak-room and placed it over a rail in front of Ihinv contrary to the rules of "the hou?e. When he waa rebuljed, lie submissively took the offending gar. ment on his knee, and the woman retired without suspecting that the person sliei had scolded was tihe great geneirnlissimo. ;