The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-09
POLO.
Polo Associntion Votes Against Incrensing the
Height or Ponies.


While many women and men Of the Riding
Club in East Fifty-eighth street wero ~trottinR
and cantering their horses in a music class last
night the annual meeting OF the Polo Associa-
ton was held in one of the upstairs rooms open.
ing on tho tanbark ring. The view of the cques.
TRANS as they cirCled the ring in time with
the music was q cheerful inspiration to the
poloists in their deliberations. II. L. Herbert,
Chairman of the association. presided. Before
its close he was reelected Chairman for the com.
ing year. and, after Z. c. Potter, had declined to
again serve as Secretary and Treasurer, the fill
ing Of the dual office was deferred to tho first
meeting of the Polo Committee for 1898. Those
elected to serve on this committee were o. ".
Bird. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., w. A. Hazard, in
place of John E. Cowdin; r. L. Agassiz, and
John c. Groomc, In place Of F. c. Potter. Six
teen of the twenty-onc clubs in the United States
were represented by the following delegates:
E. c. Potter. Country Club of westchester; John c.
Groome. Phila ielphia Country Club; C. II. w. Foster.
pedham Polo Club; Charles A. Mum. Essex County
Club. Orange; Robert J. Collier. Southampton Polo
CLUB; BENJAMIN Nicoll, Morris County Country
Club; 9. W. Bird, M~eadowbrook Club W. W.
Norman, Jr. Msop E.u Hunt naA Albert tbert'i fr m ae1 RSek "a.
way Hunting, Club; w. c: Candee. Brooklyn Riding
George W. Kendrlok. the third. Devon Polo Club;
Thomas hitchcock. JI:. westshester Polo Club OF
e u Joih Ndu lulHp, " ASHluHtOn fOlO
Club, and II. L. Herbert. M~eadowbrook Club.
Contrary to expectation the increase In the
standard of measurement for polo ponies. from
14.1 to 14.2 hands. was voted down. The lat
ter height has been the standard in Great
Britain for three seasons, and one argumc put
forward for the change WAS that it would make
II easier to arrange an international team match
this year. The following dates were arranged
for the seasons tournaments:
Meadowbrook, May e9 to Juno 4; Country Club OF
Westchester. June q TO II; Devon. Pa, Polo Club.
June - to IL; Philadelphia Country Club. June 20
TO July .; Rockaway Hunting Club. July ( to 10;
Point Judith Country Club. Narragansett Pier, July
Is to 80; Southampton Polo Club. Aug. l TO 8; West.
chester Polo Club. Now port, Aug. = to go; Buffalo
Country Club. Aug. 22 to ~; Myopia Hunt, Aug. 20
TO Sept. .; Dedham Polo Club, Sept. 3 to 10; Country
Club of Brookline. Sept. IL to II; Championship and
Riding and Driving Club cups, Prospect Park, brook.
Ign. Sept. ~ to Oct. / Staten Island Polo Club. Oct.
o to 4.
The Southampton and Staten Island clubs
will hold their first tournaments. Another fea-
ture is that the Massachusett s Journeys are
punched together in the autumn. The st. Louis
and Chicago clubs will hold their tournaments
in Juno on any dates they choose. Hereaf.
Ter an entrance fee will BIO exected
but the money will DO returned to
the teams that play. Another change in the
rules is that competitions between teams offour
shall be OF four periods of fifteen minutes each,
instead of three OF twenty minutes. No player
can take part In the championship unless on a
team on which he has played the greater num-
Der OF his games during the year. The annual
meetings will hereafter be held in the third
week in April.