The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-12
WORLDS FAIR SPORTS.
Best Polo Teams In the Country Are
To Fight for Supremacy.

| ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 12-Slnce the
Worlds Fair of 1904 Will have de-
partment devoted exclusively to
nbysical culture and athletics for the
first time in the history of expositions
extensive arrangements are being made
20 bring together the best talent IN eV-
try line Of sports and present a series
Of tournaments for excelling IN Varle-
ty and magnitude those ever given be-
fore The revival of the Olymplan
games is single feature that will
arouse national interest in sports and
pastime. st. Louis in 1904 will be the
center of attraction for the sportsmen
Of the world. The great stadium, with
4 seating capacity of 100000, will ri
val the famous amphitheaters of an
lent Greece and Rome.
These are times when the "StrenuCus
life" is being eXemplified from the
White House to the cattle ranch, from
the campus to the corral. from the
golf links to the game preserves. and
IN every form of athletics pertaining
20 the physical culture. The p2IefIced
Girl and the iackaG&isiCal E0ung man
are no longer the fad. The athletic
Young men and women are now having
Their innings. Even the business men
If the great cities have caught the f.
rer. and leave the hOt-press Of city
ife TO enjoy the pleasures Of outdoor
sports. The society woman rides with
the hounds or swings a golf stick. The
pessinist says this is only the cult of
animal in man" The devotees of the
strenuous life reply that physical
culture and sports, if properly indulg-
ed in, tend to that intellectual expan-
sion and physical and mental health
that make men think better and quick
er and surer for every business propo-
siti0n that comes before them for So
luton
This value Of all kinds of athletics
and physical culture will be thorough
~ Illustrated at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition.
Among the many sports to be repre-
scented it can be said that equestrian
polo is to be one Of the most interest
ing features in the various worlds
championships fer already assurances
have been given the Fair mana cement
that the leading polo teams in this
country and some from foreign lands
viii participate in the contests.
George j. Gould, William \. Hazard
and II. L. Herbert, of New York, will
represent the Polo Association on the
Worlds Fair committee, along with r.
win T. Smith and G.. II. Walker, of the
St. Louis Polo clubs, and NJ. NJ. Kirk
man of the OnWentsie club Of Chicago,
and Dwight Davis, Of st. Louis.
Polo has had 4 wonderful growth III
the last few years as a form of siren
uous amusement for young business
men Of wealth. and the Polo Associa-
ton committee which recently met in
New York city and completed the final
handicap Of the year had to give an
official rating for 300 active pOlOists
in the thirty-tWo clubs of the associa-
ton. The annual meeting of the Polo
Association, OF which H. L. Herbert, is
chairman, Will be held in New York
in April, when dates for championships
and minor tournaments over the coun-
try will be arranged. Twenty or more
polo tournaments viii be held in the
New York, Philadelphia. and Boston
clubs and Newport and Narrag ansett
Pier. Special tournaments viii be ar
ranged for an English team that is
coming over. The dates for the polo
tournaments at the Worlds Fair have
not yet been fixed. but they will be ar
ranged SO as to follow the tournaments
in the east. The Fair tournaments
Will probably be held in October.
Polo is fairly we'll established in
hat city will come to the Worlds Fair
The Teutons are becoming enthusiastic
! OVER polo, and will try 10 retrieve thei,
record of 1902, when W. A. Hazard. OF
| the Rockaway club, New York. took q
team from London, England, and wor
a cup at Hamburg,
Among the crack polo players whc
| will be seen in the Worlds Fair tour
naments are ToXhall Keene Lawrence
| Waterbury, Geo. ]. Gould, r. l.. Agas-
| sig, ]. N. Waterbury, jr., Harry Payne
Whitney and John Z. Cowdin. who arr
the best in the country; and Charlie:
| Wheeler and Charles Snowden, o
| Bryn MaWr: A. E. Kennedy, W. Hinkl,
Smith and ". T. Carter, of the Phila
| delphia Country club.
| BarneS-YOu are looking uncOm.