Possible Clues:

• In the country it's decaying, I see
• Simple game requiring short polo mallet
• A yokel
• Country way, one guarded by police once
• Yokel
• Simple and unsophisticated, of the countryside
• Citrus cultivated by peasant
• Log cabinish
• Country game with short piece of wood
• That might be the cause, I see, of the decay of the country