New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
POLO.
ENTRIES FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF 1900
WILL CLOSE NEXT WEEK

The entries for the polo championships Of 1900
will close Monday, June 4 and then there will
be fast and energetic playing by the intending
competitors until the big games begin June %.
at Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Not only the polo
championships held three four months earlier
this year but as has been previously mentioned in
these columns. the meeting will be signalzed by
the addition Of a junior championship open TO
teams not exceeding an aggregate handicap OF
twenty goals.
The opportunity thus given for the somewhat
rnisnamed second teams 10 meet footing Of
equality is evidently going TO be passed by IN
silence II the activity OF these enter
prising junior quartets the last few weeks
anything. The wisdom OF the Polo Association in
offering this championship, and the generosity of
Samuel D. Warren in presenting the junior per
perual trophy. will assuredly be recognized in
most enthusiastic manner when the champion week
arrives.
H L. Herbert chairman OF the Polo Association,
announced the conditions for the champion
ships last week. The junior perpetual trophy Will
be held one year by the club. whose team wins
the honor and the association offers four individual
prizes but IT is stipulated that these cannot be
won by default. The competing teams will play
without handicap allowances.
The winning team of the junior contests will be
included in the drawings for the championship,
and have the privilege of post entry. The team
drawn IL will win that contest by default
II II fails enter play.
Players in the junior championship are not elig-
ible play for the championship except as mem
bers of the winning team of the junior contests.
The latter condition is an important one, and IL
IS clearly directed against the possibility Of a club
placing one of its players on the weaker
team for the purpose Of increasing its winning abi
ity and then jumping them back 10 the first team
for the big championship.
Such a condition of affairs would defeat the very
object which the polo who advocated the
junior contest had view The junior and the
championship vtctors must be distinct in every
particular and 10 tell the truth, handicapped
from : 10 would hardly be looked upon with
favor on the Junior teams, for the main idea
bring new material 10 the front. and offer chances
to the men who could play with hope Of
success against the recognized heavy teams
The trophy for the regular championship is the
gold cup offered a few years ago by William Wal
dorf Astor, through the Tuxedo Club. The New
port aggregation forming the Westchester Polo
Club won il by default from Meadow Brook last
year Individual prizes are also given, and the
teams meet on a scratch basis.
The conditions OF play for both the contests are
as follows
Four periods of fifteen minutes each actual play
Time between goals. de!ays @ ana i ove'I5ne h h aoS
made and seven minutes between the periods for
chaI-Ep OF ponies ana rest
Connecting teams pay a Zee of 800. which will be
-ar7,rned II the team shows up the field Other
wise The money goes into the treasury of the asso
citation.
rrba Riding and Driving Club Of Brooklyn. in
wears offers the use Oh It's mousse anu Stables
N rbe polo players for the championship week
After the entries are the drawings Will be made
and on lime u the announcement will be made OF
r,e exact playing days and the manner IN which
the teams Will meet
The Meadow Brook polo season, which opened
successfully on Thursday, Will be closed this week
yvf+b three grand games The final struggle for
me F5enpsread cups viii draw large contingent
of F2oclxawav and Lakewood sympathizers 10 the
r4,r- Cuh tomorrow The game will practically
ne = repetition Of the battle royal at the Wesches-
ter Country Club a week ago, when the plucky men
1-or7 CedaraiIrst got the better or George GouldS
1earn nv the narrow margin Of one goal
The teams played even terms at that time,
NTH roraI handcaps of I5 but Rockaway has
a-al,, strengthened is force by two goals, so it
u,I1 nave 10 allow it's rivals two points al the start
F D Savage q 4 man. has taken T W Brooks's
mace al back the latter being rated at , The
change mas given Rockaway team almost as
strong the proverbiaI stone wall anu Ihe
Meadow Brook four last week, although aided by
several brilliant runs by Clarence Mackay and
2 T Reechmau found IL tremendously difficult 10
break through It's guard. Conover ana young La
Sionfagpe are improving every day, and lover or
The game might travel long distance to see better
snort than these two level headed players are CIV
ing.
The big contest between Lakewood and Meadow
Brook representing respectively a handicap force
of D against one OF IS will be the attraction for
Thursday afternoon. The only change that has
heer made in the teams published week ago
is The substitution OF w c. Eustis In the place OF