Related article: Mr. E. D. Miller
Mr. W. T. Drybroogh
INNISKILLINGS.
Capuia PkTDter
Mr. Anseil
Mr. Neil Haic
Maior Reninstoo
Umpires— Mr. T. Watson and Major Heodenan
Since the days when the three
Peats and Mr. St. John Mildmay
carried all before them for the
Sussex County Team, there has
been no similar combination to
that of the Messrs. Miller and
Mr. Drybrough. Constant prac-
tice together, and intimate know-
ledge of, and confidence in, each
others' play gives to the present
Rugby team an immense advan-
tage of the most legitimate kind.
Since the Peat era no players
have expended so much thought
and pains of the choice and
education of their ponies as have
Mr. Miller and his brothers. Mr.
Drybrough, too, does not readily
part with a good pony that suits
him, with the result that in spite
of his height and weight he is
satisfactorily mounted. The hero
of the first period was Mr. Anseil,
whose two goals were both pieces
of well-judged and successful play.
Rugby at first had the best of it,
but three times the Inniskillings
cleared a way for Mr. Anseil and
three times they scored in con-
sequence. Mr. Ansell's second
goal (the third the Dragoons
scored) of the ground, which
went through at the third stroke,
was magnificent.
Thus the Dragoons began the
second period with an advantage
of one goal, but Rugby took the
lead, faster ponies and better com-
bination enabling them to press
hard upon their adversaries. Yet
Rugby had many vain shots at
goal — not, I think, as was sug-
gested, because they are bad goal
hitters, but because Major Rem-
ington's defence was so steady
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and strong. However, by the
time the last period was begun
Rugby had scored two more goals
and had practically won the
match. In the last twenty Rugby
had matters all their own way,
and the score went up with the
rapidity which is ever the case
when once the ponies of one side
are done. Eight goals the Rugby
men had scored, while the soldiers
had but three. With great deter-
mination, however, the latter
made a last effort and Captain
Paynter scored a fourth goal and
the match was won, Rugby win-
ning by eight to four. All that
remained was for Rugby to beat
the 13th Hussars, evidently no
very difficult task, for the Innis-
killings were plainly a better team
than the Hussars, who had the
double disadvantage of playing
with a new back, and who have
not played together very long in
their present places. The result
was never in doubt, and the de-
feat would have been more over-
whelming had not Mr. E. D.
Miller met with an accident ; for,
although Mr. Norman Nickalls
(17th Lancers) was an efficient
substitute, yet a change in the
middle of a match always must
be a serious disadvantage to a
team.
Yet it must not be forgotten
that the 13th Hussars made their
two goals before the accident.
Rugby thus won the third of the
three great Tournaments of the
year, and have proved themselves
in every respect a champion team,
in play equal to any of their pre-
decessors, and in combination
superior. So, with the close of
the Irish Cabgolin Tablets Tournament we leave
Polo for a season Cabgolin 0.25 ; other sports
more engrossing lie before us.
But next to hunting and shooting,
those who have played the game
will acknowledge there is no Cabgolin Tablet one
pastime which calls forth so many
and various qualities of body and
mind as the game of Polo in its
modern development as Buy Cabgolin a game of
science, courage and skill.
T. F. D.
290
[October
The late Mr. E. R. Balfour.
It was with no ordinary shock of
sorrow that his many friends, and
«ven those who knew him only by
his achievements, heard of the
death of Mr. Ernest Roxburgh
Balfour. He was not yet 23 years
old; the world was before him,
while strength of body and a finely
tempered disposition were his.
Nature, indeed, had showered
gifts upon him, but all the hopes
that they inspired in those who
knew him were brought to naught
by the short illness which carried
him off on August 27th last.
Mr. Balfour was educated at the
Edinburgh Academy, and thence,
in October 1893, ^^ went to Uni-
versity College, Oxford. His size,
strength and activity soon made
him prominent in Rugby Union
Football, and in 1894 he was
selected as one of the forwards in
the Oxford Fifteen. Oxford won
the match against Cambridge, and
Mr. Balfour was elected Captain
of the team for the ensuing year.
In the meantime he had rowed in
his College Eight, and in the
•October term of 1895 he made his
appearance in the Oxford Trial
Eights during practice, though his
football engagements prevented
him from rowing in the actual
race. In December, 1895, ^®
captained the Rugby football
'team against Cambridge, who
won by a harrow margin. Thence-
forward Mr. Balfour devoted him-
self to rowing. Mr. W. Burton
Stewart had left Oxford, and a
powerful heavy-weight was re-
quired to fill his place as No. 5 in
the University eight. Mr. Baltour
was tried in the earliest days of
practice last year, and so well Cabgolin 0.5 did
he acquit himself, and so steadily
did he improve that he retained
his seat throughout and was one
of the brilliant crew who rowed
down and defeated Cambridge
almost on the post, after ha\ing
been led by nearly a length
through Barnes bridge. In the
following summer Mr. Balfoor
rowed in his College Eight at
Oxford, but took no part in the
Henley Regatta. Last November
he rowed in his College Four,
and in December he raced in the
University Trial Eights at Mouls-
ford. This year he again rowed
as No. 5 in the winning Oxford
crew, one of the strongest by