It will be remembered that at a meeting of senior Army officers held
last summer at Hurlingham, it was unanimously agreed to form a new polo
committee, consisting of the Inspector of Calvary (President), cavalry
brigadiers, officers commanding regiments, and representatives of corps,
interested in polo, and the three members of the Inter-Regimental
Tournament Committee (with the Secretary to act in a similar position to
the new committee). The meeting agreed that the objects of the new
committee should be: (1) To deal with questions affecting principle in
the management of regimental polo, especially with a view to keeping
down expenses, &c. (2) To act as a consultative and authoritative body
on all questions affecting Army polo. (3) To receive from regiments any
suggestions, &c., regarding principle or expenditure connected with
polo, &c.; and (4) to strengthen the Executive Inter-Regimental
Tournament Committee, but without interfering with its management of the
details of the tournament. As a result the following Committee has been
formed for 1906:—
Major-General R. S. S. Baden-Powell, C.B., Inspector of Cavalry,
President; Major-General H. J. Scobell, C.B., 1st Cavalry Brigade;
Brigadier-General Hon. J. Byng, M.V.O., 2nd Cavalry Brigade;
Brigadier-General M. F. Rimington, C.B., 3rd Cavalry Brigade;
Brigadier-General E. H. Allenby, C.B., 4th Cavalry Brigade;
Major-General F. J. W. Eustace, C.B., and Colonel E. J.
Phipps-Hornby, V.C., representing Royal Artillery; Colonel G. F.
Gorringe, C.M.G., D.S.O., representing Royal Engineers;
Major-General Sir W. G. Knox, K.C.B., Major-General A. H. Paget,
C.V.O., C.B., Brigadier-General E. A. Alderson, C.B., A.D.C., and
Colonel A. J. Godley, Irish Guards, representing Infantry; Colonel
T. C. P. Calley, C.B., M.V.O., 1st Life Guards; Colonel C. F.
Anstruther-Thomson, M.V.O., D.S.O., 2nd Life Guards; Colonel H. T.
Fenwick, M.V.O., D.S.O., Royal Horse Guards; Colonel S. B.
Bogle-Smith, C.B., 1st Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel H. Mercer,
3rd Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Thompson, D.S.O., 7th
Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel C. Williams, Royal Scots Greys;
Lieutenant-Colonel H. W. G. Graham, D.S.O., 5th Lancers;
Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Herbert, M.V.O., 6th Dragoons;
Lieutenant-Colonel R. L. Walter, 7th Hussars; Lieutenant-Colonel H.
N. M. Thoyts, 8th Hussars; Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Rycroft, 11th
Hussars; Colonel E. D. J. O’Brien, 14th Hussars; Colonel G. P.
Wyndham, 16th Lancers; Colonel P. S. Marling, V.C., C.B., 18th
Hussars; Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. de Pledge, 19th Hussars;
Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Whatman, 20th Hussars; and Colonel J.
Fowle, 21st Lancers. Major Lord C. Bentinck, (9th Lancers), Major G.
F. Milner, D.S.O. (1st Life Guards), Major G. K. Ansell (6th
Dragoons), and Major S. L. Barry, D.S.O. (10th Hussars) (Hon. Sec.),
Inter-Regimental Tournament Committee.
The Committee will assemble at Hurlingham the day of, and previous to,
the final of the annual Inter-Regimental Tournament.