New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-07
POLO.
LIST OF TOURNAMENTS FOR THIS YEAR
JUST ISSUED

LIST OF TOURNAMENTS FOR THIS YEAR
JUST ISSUED.
The official list Of tournaments for this year JUST
issued by the Polo Association, shows about the
same number OF games as were scheduled last sea-
SON. The Association cups and the meeting al the
Country Club OF Brooklne, Mass. have been taken
from the list The season Will open with the tour
nament at Meadow Brook. May Is TO q. meet on
the picturesque grounds OF the Country Clup OF
Westchester will follow. May q to June TO- Penn
sylvania then claims all players for the tourna-
ments 10 be held on the field OF the Devon Cluo
June p TO H. and the Philadelphia Country CluD
field June 10 TO July l. The Rockaway Hunt Cluo
tournament is scheduled for July 10 TO- and the
SOUTHAMPTON Polo Club. July Il to D. after which
players and ponies Will go Narraganseu Pier Tor
the Point Judith meet July "a to August .. The
Nawport tournaments on the new field OF the West
chester Polo Club will be held August TO IT, Inc
Myopia and Dedham tournaments occur respec-
lively August p TO S and August S to septem-
Der q Then there some unoccupied oates ana
the championship games are set for September II 10
% though u IL not decided which club shall nave
them Heretofore these games nave senera"S oeeh
decided on the public field OF prospect PARK Du' II
is not unlikely that some western ciuo ma! se'
chem this year 80 as 70 stimulate the sport there
The Staten Island Polo Club will hold its tourna-
roert October . 10 = The dates OF the Buffalo. 81
oris and Chicago clubs have not yet been decided
upon. ...,.....
The Meadow Brook meeting includes the contests
for the Meadow Brook Club and Hampstead cups
the former for tears OF four players whose aggre-
gate il more than twenty goals and the latter Tor
teams OF four OF which 10 inuNiuuai "a'O'O"p ~
ceeds five goals.
Tho games at the Westchester Country Club In
cIude the Westminster cups the Country Club cups
and the Beeckman cups, the first FOR twenty goal
men the second for less than twenty, ana the last
for pairs whose aggregate handicap does not eN-
coed twelve Entries close for all three contests on
May 49,
The changes in handicap OF the several players
are: Buffalo C. c. Rumsey. ?; Devereaux Milourn,
0; George Milburn o. new players ana Johh rHen-
nond Increased /. Dedham-B. Mason Hamlin' o;
W s. Patten. 0: new players and Joshua crane IN
creased l. Devon-C e. Wheeler handicap ), added
to list Meadow BROOKE. o. Beach handicap T.
added Morris County-Chares A. Mum. 2 added
Myopia-H. II. Holmes, increased go; c. o. Rice
increased 90 James n Proctor. increased l. Ellis
l.. Dressed increased l. Onwentsa Cluo-New mem
bers Howard Gillette. 0; Walter Keith, 0: w. b.
Kirkman 2: NJ J. Klrkman. 2; W. s. Andrews. in
creased l. w w. Rathborne. reduced l. Phlade-
phia Country Clubs. Lawrence Bodine, o. and
George l.. Harrison. jr 0, added ST. Louis-George
b. Doan. jr.. reduced l. Staten IsIand-Frederick
The Rldng and Driving Cub Of Brooklyn the
Essex County Country Club and the Country club
OF Evanston. Ill, have resigned from ne Polo AS
ISOLATION and the new clubs Joining this year are
the Lakewood and Somerset County clubs. or New
Jersey and the Jacksonville Polo Club. OF Jackson
VILE Fla.
All the Eastern players practising assiduously.
a shap are FdSa OIsy een for
has not been seen in the game, has resolved TO en-
the lists again and will appear in the principal
games for the Rockaway Club Other old-tme ex-
perts taking up their maets and II looks as
though the OF 1899 will be exciting than
any that has gone before Especially spirited Will
Brook and Westchester teams. the first and last
each being eager to lower the colors OF the crack
players from Hampstead. who for two years have
carried all before them and won the championships.
A new rule which will have important bearing
on play this season is that which requires all new
ponies 10 be not less than 142 hands high. Old
ponies that have already played in matches are not
subject 10 measurement. The increased height limit
will have a tendency bring into play breeder and
speedier ponies than heretofore, and somewhat
heavier so that the PUSHES and charges In the
closely contested games may be expected to be
stronger than ever. and weight will now count for
more than formerly. American ponies Will now be
ranked about the English and European
and the games this side Will partake more or
the nature OF those the water than they have
in the past