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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0387 Enlarge and print image (2M) |
| ^ 5^ a a al DDDI ~k >n 1DDDOI It Was In China Between 800 And I200 fl.D. That It Was The Qame Of The history of the "(galloping Game" may be well worth giving a thought to, inasmuch as two or three games have been played at Pikesville. Polo was introduced into England by the British troop3 who had served in India and watched the game there. This was something more than fifty years ago, and it came to America soon after. But polo has been played for centuries in Asia, originating with the Mongols, the fierce horsemen who once swayed an Empire larger than the' D., and even then more than one world has ever seen, either before I tenfmonarc played polo to such an or afterward. From these tartar, apparent excess as to call forth re-cavalrymen it spread to Persia and monstrance from his ministers. One to the Chinese as early as 600 A. D. i of these, the Emperor Hsi Tsung, in Since the founding of the first the year 881 went so far as to put to American polo club in 1877, the death a too zealous statesman, who Jnited States has won the internat-onal championship more times than he English, from whom the game vas brought here, and private clubs, lolleges and army posts throughout he country are taking up the game with interest and enthusiasm. As announcement was made that Baron Renfrew, known to everyone as Edward, Prince of Wales, would participate in the practice games preceding the actual international matches between the English and American polo teams it is worth bearing in mind that he is far from being the first son of royalty to wield a mallet in the galloping game. Although polo dates back only fifty-five years in England, monarchs and princes elsewhere have played it for nearly twenty centuries. It was in China that polo was long the game of the emperors, especially between 600 and 1200 A s Tfe promise to Keep our promise _ CUk, you*, stttigfoS&Ls I Life Buoy SOAP, 6 Cakes 31c IONA PEAS Can 5c A&P MACARONI OR SPAGHETTI Can 15c Long Horn CHEESE, lb. 25 ¦ Pink Salmon, Can 14c S SUNNYF ELD PANCAKE or BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Pkg. 10c Sweet Tender PEAS Can 12k New Pack PUMPKIN, Can 12k ctr^t ATLANTIC and PACIFIC TcEoA OVER 8500 STORES IN THE U. S. TOWSON, MD. COCKEYSVILLE, MD. had the habit of continually objecting, to His Majesty's playing. It has many times been reported that Baron Renfrew has himself received similar complaints from government officials and political leaders when his riding and polo playing seemed a bit too virogous. Thus far the Prince has not played enough polo to receive injury there, all his falls having come during hunting and steeplechase riding. Even before Hsi Tsung, emperors of the T'ang dynasty had been noted for their excesses in the game that is now a novelty to the Prince of Wales. One emperor, according to a Chinese poet writing in 710, was so wroth at his remonstrating advisers that he ordered a game to be played before his court with only these old courtiers themselves participating. The result, the vbard tells, was that "they were tumbled onto the ground and remained there, unable to rise, to the great amusement of the Emperor, the Empress, and all the court ladies, who shouted with laughter at the sight." The son of this Emperor succeeded him and evidently carried on the good work in a somewhat reckless and rather an orthodox manner, for, to quote another contemporary poet: "The thousand doors of the palace are open, When in broad daylight, San Lang comes back very drunk ' from polo. . -. ." This carefree young monarch was deposed in the year 756. One Chinese ruler in the twelfth century took more care of the royal polo field than is now taken with the diamonds of the Yankee stadium and the incorrectly named Polo Grounds of New York. Whenever rain or other edverse climatic conditions prevented play, he promptly had the grounds covered with great sheets of oil cloth. But the climax of ancient Chinese polo is reached when one finds a record in the "Book of Marvels" to the effect that the official maker of polo clubs was taken up to heaven in broad daylight. This most ancient of games played with stick and ball gets its very name from a Chinese source, coming from the Tibetan word "pulu," meaning ball, and, in particular, a ball of willowwood. That it orig- 1 inated with the fierce cavalrymen I known as the Mongols, or Tartars, \ seems to be a fact easy to believe. j This race of people did and still do I practically live on horseback. The j women, as well as the men, are on j their horses almost the entire day j long, and have the reputation of I doing their cooking on horseback. j It was this horsemanship, together i with their fighting ability, that en-| abled the Tartars, under such rulers as the famous Kubla Khan, to become masters of all Asia and most of Europe, an empire larger than I any other known to history. Besides spreading to the Chinese, 1 this game of polo in its primitive stages spread to the Persians, who added a novel touch of their own to it. "In these games," according to J. A. Hayes, of the Shanghai Polo Club, "which were usually played after a victorious battle, the Persians are stated to have galloped over the bodies of their vanquished foes, using the heads of the defeated ones for balls. The exact number I of yards that this type of ball was driven by these sportsmen is not re-' corded." / Later Persian polo became highly I organized, however, especially in the j sixteenth century, when it was played on a field 300 by 170 yards and, I according to Sir Anthony Shirley, j resembled the rough football of the j same period in England. There are many allusions to the game of polo 1 in the poets, particularly in the j works of Omar Khayyam. From Persia the game spread westward to Constantinople and (Continued on Page 5) I ,*, ,*, ,*i ,?« i% A A A A A A i*i A A A Afr*t A A A A A A A A A WORKINGMEN! However, it is most natural to want a "bargain." Children cry for them same as C as tori a, and grown people sigh for them, but they, have gone up the spout and tas*e good with sauerkraut and spec, and so you can expect. SEE US FOR PANTS. $2. Look for 511 on the Big Electric Sign on the south side of the street. Open until 10 o'clock Saturday. THE PANTS SHOP 511 W. 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