New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-09
POLO.
CHAMPIONSHIPS il NE % TO JULY 8
AT PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN

CHAMPIONSHIPS il NE 70 TO JULY D
AT PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN.
The Parade Grounds in Prospect Park. Brooklyn
wil beginning Monday. June 25. become the centre
of attraction for all lovers of polo in this country
and from the liberal responses the chairman Of the
Polo Association has received to his schedule of
games for the championship. Junior and senior. the
probabilities that spirited contests will
take place than have been in this neighbor
hood for many years.
The annual championships OF especial in
terest to the public for the reason that IN them all
players compete regardless of their handicap rat
ing. and individual brilliance is the in
consequence. While demonstrative of the
superexceence of any team of players, that
is TO say. designating the best club in the country
the open championship games nevertheless admit
of onlookers forming fair estimate of what con-
stitutes the representative polo strength of
America
The Junior series June 1921 admits any teams
whose aggregate handicap does not exceed twenty
goals This let's in players who have been years
at the game, and of any age so, strictly speaking
the series should be designated championship for
low handicap men. The only youth the list is
Rene La Montague. jr., Of Rockaway. who has
been playing with the hard riders for seasons.
and he is so clever and has climbed to four
rating quickly that he scarcely be looked
upon as juvenile. With him listed w. l..
Hazard. fondly dubbed the foster father of the
sport on Long Island good player, who has been
many years on the ned, ana Albert Franche ana
D. F. Savage, who put up fair game of polo and
both handicapped at four. Philadelphia will send
team somewhat unevenly balanced as to
quality and cohesiveness j. B. Lippincott, the
forward" is quick and fairly clever but has been
in Europe for time, and is comparatively
unframed with his team here. NJ. G. Rosengarten
is shining light. swift and plucky to reckless
ness. John c. Groome. the president of the
Philadelphia Horse Show cannot be called brilliant
a team, although ne does not lack enthusiasm
han md md a nj
and not for his glory. J. Frank McFadden is
the player of all the Quaker representatives
who has held the circuit in former years de-
spite adverse circumstances, trouble with equines
and accidents his teams. Careful and conscien-
tious. he plays strenuously as a cautious BACK
should. His team is scheduled to meet the Meadow
Brook second quartet in the opening contest
Meadow Brook I'd has brilliant player in r. H.
F. Flinsch. and sturdy one in r. L. Beeckman
who backed the Country Club four last year l.
A Havemeyer a six man. has not been seen IN
several years. but should prove a strong card for
his team. The forward" player has not yet been
chosen. From their cohesive playing strength and
achievements this the Rockaway team
should carry off the junior trophy. A maelstrom
will surely overw helm them Friday, June %.
when they face the famous Meadow Brook Light
Blues second trial for the senior champion
ship cup.
The entries for the senior series comprise the
pick Of American polo players now regularly on
the turf not counting Foxhall p Keene, who Gort-
unately for of the precocious youngsters)
happens to be In Europe for the season. Dedham
player for many years, and has helped make things
interesting in many championship series. +. NJ
Mea met and pusET q n W FosteG Steadily
@ g a Ws and wbos
Myopia, after Meadow Brook LIST. has the gems of
the series, for in C. G. Rice, the MASSACHUSETTS,
Club on a. Sm00fh 0 Snd qaEy rafF
ing player on grass these years: He Is Lnallet
into punches who must always be reckoned upon
TO play for his country when an American team cam
rusher of the old fashioned pattern who can get
ao9 R eent b ah Gy audience to It's
feet R. L. Agassiz is a level headed. but mar
to get out Of place and whose leaves for Robby
shaw seldom m of their b pasm ph o
must come up against the Meadow Brook Light
who as WSo e on the d the
other day scored half dozen times in succession
The turf and at Nc welI9gh irresi 81 The and
before, shown by his rapid turning in the
wiz play at No IN this famous team is not yet
his form recently shown on the s. home field T..
That Westchestsr Country Club should have in In
darhurst wizard. and the Waterbury brothers,
Monte and Larry. is inexphcable, three crack
outpoint the light blue phalan1 if indeed Snow
the clever Devonians let them get past their guard
on the 10th inst. Mr. Allen is a neat helper-out
second teams. but with the top notchers he Will
ask why that oldtimer Ed Potter. is not playing
this season. His swings clever and effective
and he turn attack into defence about as
smartIy as any champion the course. Young
Nat. Reynal though small is quick as cat,
and has direction too. and doubts his
indomitabe pluck Larry Waterbury counts upon
a few California ponies that said to be
stars, and he may play or two of them in the
cham pionship He is perhaps, the most picturesque
player out for many years, and. with his brother.
Monte, in front of him. and John Cowdin in the
middle of the team, the three should pile up
startling goals. They must get forward how
ever or they cannot down the Devonans
The Devon team is made up of typical polo men,
who trained assiduOusly all the fields tour
home, and play together man, each know
ing exactly what the other will endeavor to do at
every move on the sward. Kendrick, the cap
tain is a marvel in the middle of them. Wheeler,
with whole lot of English and French perience,
IS perhaps the most reliable player at hafback that
the game has yet produced. His eyes never leave
edly Snowden is hurricane of polo. Pockazs out
for an opening he is "on'' and away before many a
back has realized that the ball is In play. Then.
if his direction" does not fail him. the audience
white ball sizzles between the uprights George
McFadden is old football man. with some
knowledge Of baseball. all of which tactics he
brings TO bear in polo.
The championship series this year Will be well
charged with high class material. and there can
be little doubt that the contests will easily draw
grounds two years ago Last year there
Championship contest, because the Meadow Brook
players the Myopas and the Devons withdrew
nd the prize went by courtesy 20 the Westchester-
and the Waterbury brothers
ROCKAwAY WINS AT PHILADELPHIA.
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