The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-17
WILL BE
 FEATURE OF FAIR St. Louis Exposition Attracting Famous Athletic People THE WORLDS BEST TALENT Revival of olymplan Games Will Arouse National Interest in Phy- sica Culture and Wholesome
 Pastime.
THE WORLDS BEST TALENT

St. Louis, January 16.-(Special. )-Since the Worlds Fair of 1904 will have de- pertinent devoted exclusively to physi- cal culture and athletics for the first time in the history of expositions, extensive arrangements are being made to bring together the best talent in every line of sports and present a series of tourna- ments for excelling in variety and mag nitude those ever given before
 The revival of the Olympian games Is q single feature that will arouse national interest in sports and pastime. St. Louis in 1904 will be the center of attarction for the sportsmen of the world. The great stadium, with a seating capacity of z7,000 will rival the famous amphitheatres of ancient Greece and Rome
 Strenuous Life.
 These are times when the strenuous life" is being exemplified from the White House to the cattle ranch, from the cam pus to the corral, from the golf links to the game preserves, and in every form of athletics pertaining to the physical cult. The pale-faced girl, and the lackadaisical SOoh5 ihdl dlc ilO lOi6 Cl tHC leiu. The athletic young men and women are now having their innings. Even the busi- ness men of the great cities have caught the fever, and leave the hot-press of city life each week to enjoy the pleasures of outdoor sports. The society woman rides with the hounds or swings a golf stick. The pessimist says this is only the "cult of animal in the man" The de- voices of the strenuous life" reply that physical culture and sports, if properly indulged in tend to that intellectual ex- pansion and physical and mental health that make men think better and quicker and surer for every business proposition that comes before them for solution.
 This value of all kinds of athletics and physical culture will be thoroughly H. lustrated at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- position.
 Among the many sports to be represent ed it can now be said that equestrian polo is to be one of the most interest ing features in the various worlds cham pionships for already assurance have been given the fair management that the leading polo teams in this country and some from foreign lands will particiuate in the contests.
 The Polo Association.
 George J. Gould, William A Hazard and H. l.. Herbert. of New York will re- present the Polo Association on the worlds fair committee, along wlth Irwin z. Smith and c. H. Walker of the St. l Louis Polo club, and II. M. Kirkman of the Owentsie club of Chicago, and Dwight Davis of St, Louis.
 Polo has had a wonderful growth in the last few years as @ form of stren- uous amusement for young business men of wealth, and the Polo Association committee which recently met in New York city and completed the final han hicap of the year had to give an official rating for 300 active polists in the thirty two clubs of the association. The an- nual 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 tou na- ments over the country will be arranged. Twenty or more polo tournaments will be held in the east this year. the circuit including New York, Philadelphia and Boston clubs, and Newport and Narra- gansett Pier. Special tournaments will be arranged 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 arranged so as to follow the tournaments in the east The fair tournaments will probably be held in October.
 Polo is fairly well established in Ham, burg, Germany, and a team from that city come to the worlds fair. The Teu- tons are becoming enthusiastic over polo, and will try to retrive their record of 1902, when H, A. Hazard, of the Rocka- way Club New York took team from London England and won a cup at Hamburg.
 Among the crack polo players who will be seen in the worlds fair tournaments are Foxhall Keene, Lawrence Waterbury. George J. Gould. R. L.. Agassiz J. M. Waterbury Jr,, Harry Payne Whitney and John D. Cowdin, who are the best In the country: and Charles Wheeler and Charles Snowden, of Bryn Mawr; A. F. Kennedy. w. Hinkle Smith and w. M. Carter of. the Philadelphia Country Club.
 National Regatta.
 The dates for the national regatta for 1904, to be held at St. Louis, have been fixed for July 29 and 30. This event will be part of the worlds fair sports, and the location was only recently de- eided upon by the executive committee of the national association of amateur oarsman, which is lending It's aid and