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Show Sport of Persian Kings and Ladies Was Polo WASHINGTON Polo was sport of kings In Persia over three hundred hun-dred years ago. Popularity of the fast riding game spread through Asia from Japan to Baghdad, and even veiled ladles had their own sprightly polo matches on the field. This romantic old chapter In sport history Is revived through addition addi-tion of two polo scenes In Persian Per-sian miniature painting to Oriental Orien-tal collections In the Freer gallery gal-lery of art of the Smithsonian Institution. In-stitution. The beautifully colored paintings Illustrated a Persian manuscript poetically treating of "The Ball and Mallet." Verse accompanying the pictures admiringly describes the King Mu-hammed Mu-hammed playing polo on a scale not merely royal but god like. |