, 1904-02-08
GEORGE j. GOULD AND OTHER
NEW WORKERS INTERESTED
IN POLO CONTESTS.
Best Teams in Country to Enter and
Germany to Send Its Hamburg
PoioiSts-MaSs Exhibition of 5000
Turners-Fair Officers to Civ
Special Prizes.
Special to The Republican.

1890 w. 80 ann
in the history of eXpositions, extensive
arrangements are being made to bring
together the best talent in every line
of sports Il present a series of tour
naments for excelling in variety and
magnitude those ever given before.
The revival of the Olympic games is a
single feature that will rouse nation
al interest in sports II pastime. st.
Louis in 1904 will be the enter of at.
traction for the sportsmen of the
world. The great stadium. with a
seating capacity of 27.00o. will rival
the famous amphitheaters Of ancient
Greece and Rome.
These are time when the strenuous
life" is being eXemplified from the
White house to the cattle ranch. from
golf links to the game preserves, and
in every form of athletics pertaining
to the physical cult. The ~pale-faced
girl and the !ackadaisicaI young man
are no longer the fad. The athletic
young men and women are now having
their innings. Even the business men
of the great cities have caught the
fever, and leave the hot-press of city
life each week to eujoy the pleasuses
of outdoor sports.
Among the many sports to be rep
resented It tie Louisiana Purchase
exposition, it can now be said that
equestrian polo is to be one of the
most interesting features in the vari-
Gus worlds championships, for already
| assurances have been given the fair
management that n" leading polo
teams in this country and some from
foreign lands will participate in the
contests.
George J. Gould. William A. Hazard
and Fl. l.. Herbert of New York will
represent the polo association on the
worlds fair committee, along with
irwin Z. Smith and G. H. Walker of
the St. Louis Polo club, II NJ. NJ.
Kirkman of the Onwentsie clubs OF
Chicago. and Dwight Davis of st.
Louis.
Polo has had a wonderful growth in
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 association.
The annual meeting of the polo asso-
citation, of which II. l.. Herbert is
chairman, will be held in New York
in April. when dates for champion
ships and minor tournaments over the
country will be arranged. Twenty or
more polo tournaments will be held in
the east this year, the circuit includ-
ing New York. Philadelphia and Bos-
ton clubs, and Newport and Nara
gansett Pier. Special tournaments
Will pt dlldlStu y Ill Lil6lISH lSdII
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 tour
naments in the east. The fair tour
naments will probably be held in Oc-
tober.
Polo is fairly well established in
Hamburg, Germany, and a team from
that city will come to the worlds fair.
The Teutons are becoming enthusi-
actic over polo. and will try to retrieve
their record of 1902. when W. A. Haz-
ard of the Rockaway club, New York,
took a team from London, England,
and won a cup at Hamburg.
Among the crack polo players who
will be seer in the worlds fair tour
naments are Foxhall Keene, Lawrence
Waterbury, George J.. Gould, r. l..
Agassiz, J. NJ. Waterbury, jr., Harry
Payne Whitney and John S. Cowdin,
who are the best in The country, and
Charles Wheeler and Charles Snow
den of Bryn Mawr; A. E. Kennedy,
w. Hinkle Smith and w. E. Carter Of
the Philadelphia Country club.
In addition to the handsome gold
medals given by the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition to the winners of
some of the events in the Olympian
games, several officers of the fair have
now decided to give special prizes on
their W account.
David r. Francis. president of the
fair, will give a $3.50 silver cup to the
winner of the great Marathon race, to
be run at a distance Of forty kilomet,
ers. on August 80.
Frederick J. V. Skif, director OF
the division of exhibits, will give a
$3.50 silver cup to the winner Of the
one mile run in the handicap event
for the championship of the world OIL
August 81.
Isaac S. Taylor, director of the di
vision of works, will give a $3.50 silver
cup to the winner of the weight-throw
Ing contest on September l.
Besides the above special prizes ii
the Olympian games. special prize,
will be given in some of the collegiate
contests. Walter B. Stevens. secre
tary of the exposition, will give a $25'
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