Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-04
WORLD FAIR SPORTS.
George J. Gould and New Workers In-
 terested ia Polo Contests.

George ]. Gould and New Workers In-
 terested ia Polo Contests.
 St Louis, Mo, Feb 4.--Since the Worlds fair of 1904 will have a de- partment devoted exclusively to physi- cal culture and athletics for the first time in the history of expositiOns, ex- .tensve arrangements are being made to bring together the best talent in every line of sports and present a ser ies of tournaments far excelling in variety and magnitude those ever giv- en before. The revival of the Olym- plan games is single feature thaA will arouse national interest in sports and pastinie. St Louis in 1904 will be the center of attraction for the sportsmen Of the world. The great stadium, with a seating capacity of 27,OO0, will rival the famous amphi- tleaters of ancient Greece and Rome.
 These are times when the strenuous life'' is being exempifed 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 to >the physical cult. The palefaced girl and the lackadaisical young man are no longer the fad. The athletic young men and women are now hay ing their innings. Even the business men of the great cities have caught the fever, and leave the hot-press of ures 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 man." The devotees of the ''strenu- ous life" reply that physical culture and sports, if properly indulged Tn, tend to that intellectual expansion and physical and mental health that makes men think better and quicker and sur CT for every business proposition that comes before them for solution.
 This value of all kinds of athletics and physical culture will be thorough ly illustrated at the Louisiana Pur- chase exposition.
 Among the many sports to be rep resented 1t can now be said that equestrian polo is to be one of the most interesting features in the vari- ous worlds championships, for all ready assurances have been given the fair management that the leading polo teams in this country and some from foreign lands will participate dn the contests.
 George J. Gould William A. Haz- ard and H L.. Herbert of New York will represent the Polo association on the Worlds fair committee, along with Irwin 2 SIhith and G. H. Walker of the St Louis Polo club, and M. M. Kirknan of the Onwentsie club of Chicago, 'and Dwight Davis of St Louis.
 Polo has had wonderful growth in the last few years as a form of strenuous amusement for young busi- ness men Of wealth. and the Polo as- sociation committee which recently met in New York city and completed the final handicap of the year had to give an official rating for 800 active poloists in tho thirty-two clubs of the association. The annual meeting of the Polo association, of which H. l.. Her. bert is chairman. will be held in New York in April, when dates for cham pionships and minor tournaments over the country will be arranged. Twenty or more polo tournaments will be he'd in the east this year, the circuit dnclud- ing New York, Philadelphia and Bos- ton 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 the tournaments in the east. The fair tournaments will probably be held in October
 Polo is fairly well established in Hamburg, Germany, and a team from that city will come to the Worlds fair. The Teutons are becoming enthusiastic over polo, and, will try to retrieve their record of 1902, when w. A. Hazard of the Rockaway club, New York, took 8 team from London, Eng land, and won & cup at Hamburg.
 Among the crack polo players who will be seen in the Worlds fair tour naments are Foxhall Keene, Law renee Waterbury, George J. Gould, R. L. Agassiz, J. M. Waterbury, Jr, Harry Paine Whitney and John E. Cowdin, who are the best six, in the country; and Charles Wheeler and 0. Snowden of Bryn Mawr; A. E. Ken nedy, M. Hinkle Smith and W. K Garter of the Philadelphia Country club.
 The dates of the national regatta of 1904, to be held at St. Louis, have been fixed for July 29 and 30 This event will be a part of the Worlds fair sports, and the location was only recently decided upon.
 In addition to the handsome gold medals given by the Louisiana Pur, chase exposition to the winners of some of the events in the Olympfan games, several officers of the fair have now decided to give special prizes on their own account
 David Fl. Francis, president of the fair will give a $25O silver cup to the winner of the great Marathon race, to be run at distance of 40 lxiIo metres on August 2li-ruuuuull.u