New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-29

OPENING OF THE WESTMINSTER COUNTRY
CLUB TOURNAMENT.

CLUB TOURNAMENT.
The Westchester Country Club tournament, the
second meeting Of the season held under the aus
pices of the Polo Association. will open to-day.
The trophies offered the Country Club cups
and Individual prizes open to teams OF four whose
aggregate handicap is less than twenty goals. The
teams entered the second Meadow Brook and
first Philadelphia. As the total handicap Is set
rather high either team can put in one or two ex-
perienced players in place Of low handicap men.
The second Light Blues have been playing
under a total handicap Of twelve goals, with Max
we'll Stevens at no. l. J. w. Appleton at No. 2
J. b. Eustis. jr. halfback, and T. Willard Roby
goal keeper 1t is possible that either w c. Eustis
PLAYERS mentioned. and in this case the team will
go into play much heavier than when II defeated
q week ago. As the Rockaway players have beaten
a Philadelphia team maze up Of Albert Kennedy
den. their captain will probably call into service
c. Randolph snowden, NJ. G. Rosengarten, jr.. and
total pensty ~ thirteen rite I goals which With Albert
kennedys handicap OF six still puts the team under
Last season, It may be remembered Messrs Ken
nedy, Zeilin Welch. Smith and Carter of Philadel-
ptia beat the second Westchester team, the second
Meadow Brook. the second Rockaway and the
Staten Island team. and also had the credit Of de-
Quakers not TO repeat their last years victories
and to-day's game Is expected to map out the policy
OF the several teams that are engaged 10 meet them
On Wednesday the second OF the series Of games
for the Country Club cups will take place the COM
peting teams being the newly organized Lakewood
1 players, under the leadership OF George j. Gould,
| and the second Philadelphia men.
The star attraction Of the week, however, is the
game set for Friday next June 2. between the
| champion Light Blues OF Meadow Brook and Fox
| hall p Keene John +. COwdin Larry Water
| bury and stanley Mortimer. who represent the old
! Westminster Polo Club. of Newport When these
two teams met at Hampstead on May 10 the New
port team defeated Meadow Brook by a score OF
! goals 10 g. As then lined up, w. G Eustis
| played forward. c. G. Baldwin No 2 II. Payne
| Whitney halfback and Benjamin Nicoll back This
Is voted a combination very hard to beat, Nicoll
being a veritable stone wall. Whitney perhaps the
! best mounted player In America. and Baldwin
! courageous TO point OF recklessness which is
sometimes appalling. Had Meadow Brook not hit
| for safety so often In the last combat the score
would have resd about even. and as they are
/ known 10 have been practising assiduousy since
their defeat IL Is expected that they Will give a
/ better account OF themselves In next Friday {
| game Then II will be nip and tuck all through
! the season between the Light Blues and the vet
sequence and popular interest will no doubt he as
| widespread II years ago
| II will be from these two teams that the quartet
/ Of American experts will be chosen should the
| polo Association decide to challenge the English
| players this season "A contingency which has been
/ much talked OF since the great contest occurred
on the Hampstead feld. II an internationa tour
ney could be arranged 90 take place at Newport
\ about the time OF the yacht race there woud he
no lack OF entertainment for the visitors from
across the Atlantic; and as the season would Their
be In fun swing. the game would be played under
. the most delightful auspices.