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Show EUHf tlOOie TUrr OX ninnugnniu. i-x men who know both say that no better came exists than that which Is played during long, heat-laden afternoons up and down that dust-embedded street. PLAY GOOD POLO Indian Beggars Are Adepts at "Rich Man's Game." Have Their Own Rules, but Are Able to Give British Officers "Run for . Their Money." Polo is supposed to be a rich man's game, but go to Gllgit, in Kashmir, the original home of Indian polo, and there you will see it played even by beggars and played well. The great game was brought to India centuries ago by the Persians, the countrymen of Omar, who, according accord-ing to FitzGerald, mentions his national na-tional game in his poetry. Gilgit, a tiny Indian frontier town, boasts of being the first home of polo in the empire, and there they play it as it was played by those old Persian sportsmen. You need be no millionaire to be a polo enthusiast in Gilgit. You need not order your breeches in Saville row nor buy your ponies at Tattersall's to play it as it is played there. All you require is a pony and that every native na-tive peasant possesses and a stick, which you will probably make out of cane with your own hands. On polo days the glad news that a game is about to begin is announced by some one shouting it in Ihe village. Soon all the lads of the village appear mi tiny ponies not more than 13 hands high and with the oddest collection col-lection of saddles ever seen. Some of these saddles look more like chairs than anything else, while others are bolstered up with bundles in front to assist their riders to keep off the ground as much as possible. The game is played with an almost unlimited number of players on either side, and the polo ground is the main i-ond. There are no goal posts. A wall at each end of the polo ground serves j as such, and the game Is played not by ehukkers but until one side has scored nine goals or until both teams are utterly ut-terly exhausted. The sticks at Gilgit differ both In shape and material from those generally gener-ally used. They are fashioned out of cane and are I.-shaped rather than T-shaped, T-shaped, like those used at Hurllngham. They are also made without a pointed point-ed end to their heads, and have no straps to slip over the wrist. Any player is allowed to pick up the hall or catch It In his hand and Immediately Immedi-ately fling it as far us possible toward Ihe goal. This procedure, which might annoy the umpires at Hurlinghnm. .Is made possible by the size of the ponies. pon-ies. There are three native teams at Gll-L'it. Gll-L'it. the best of which plaN against ihe British officers stationed there, and among which are some very fine players. On tournament days prizes are uniformly tlfe same. The first prize always consists of 200 cartridges and the second of four blanket overcoats. over-coats. There Is some difference between the polo played up and down the stony street of sun-baked Gllgit by native neggars on horseback many half naked and In rough home-made sad- ajaj thot nq vftrl on t hp SD2O0th |