The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
GALLOPS OF The POLO PONIES
TOURNAMENT AT ONWENTSIA
CENTRE OF INTEREST.

western Matches for the cups May Pave
way for Reciprocal Fixtures Entries
include Players Of Class -India's Team
Beats spaniards NJ H~uriinEhanh
O~nwentsia holds the centre Of the polo
stage this week, for the beginning OF the
tournaments for the senior and junior
championships is scheduled for Friday.
The differences is not in the g but in the
skill Of the players. although in both tour
naments the teams play without handicars.
Yet the eligibility Of the leans is based
on the individual handicaps OF the players.
The Junior, for which the perpetual trophy
ia a cup presented by Samuel ID. Warren
OF Boston. 10 for teams Of four whose ag-
gregate handicap does not exceed twenty
goals, lone Of the players to have a higher
handicap thar five goals. The latter clause
prevents a junior team playing a ten goal
crack with three others OF mino class.
A cup presented by William Waldorf Aston
is the senior championship trophy. open
to any team OF four.
That the allusion to handicaps may not
he az Greek to the untnitiated IL should
be said that to rate the players Ii one OF
the objects OF the Polo Associations COM
mittee. There are forty clubs In the or
4anization, from which some 300 active
PLAYERS are handicapped. At the Eastern
clubs alone there are from fourteen TO
twenty tournaments each season. but aside
from the championships only two or three
Of the many cups arc not played for under
bandioaps. In handicap matches the rule
IA that the team having the largest handi-
CAP will concede the difference to the other
team. A team whose four players have
ratings respectively OF eight. six. five and
Ave. or twenty-four goals. would concede
four goals TO a team having IN aggregate
~ twenty goals. The committee rates
the players according to It's estimate of
their value to q team. The ratings are
from one goal TO nine. Three are at nine
voals-roxhaIl p. Keene. Lawrence Water
bury and r. L. Agassiz OF Boston, and
,here are as many eight goal men, II. p
Whitney, J. M. Waterbury. Jr.. and John
E. Cowdin. They stand out as the six
best players in ths country.
Meadow Brook. as the following list OF
winners shows, won the senior champion
ship last year. when the took
place at Newport:
,sa5. Myopia-A. P. Gardner. r. G. Shaw. I'd.
r. l.. Axassiz and +. Blackwood Fay.
1895. Rockawsy-Joseph Stevens. J. =.
Cowdin. Foxhall Keene and George p. Eustis.
1897, Meadow Brook-W. G. Eustis. Thomas
Hitchcock, Jr.. Harry Payne Whitney and
George p. Eustis.
1895, Meadow Brook-W. c. Eustis. Thomas
Hitchcock. Jr.. Columbus Baldwin and Harry
Payne whitney.
ises-Declared on.
1900, Dedham-Allan Forbes. Edward NJ.
Wild. William II. Goodwin. Jr.. and Joshua
Crane.
1901, Lakewood-C. r. Snowden, J. NJ.
Waterbury. Jr.. J. E. Cowdin and L. Water
bury.
1902, Lakewood-H. Lyle. J. Z. Cowdin.
J. NJ. Waterbury. Jr.. and L.. Waterbury. The
cup was not awarded In this year on account
Of a protest.
1908, Country Club Of Westchester-J. f.
Cowdin, J. M. Waterbury. Jr.. l.. Waterbury
and Harry Payne Whitney.
1904. Myopia-Maxwel Norman, r. G..
Shaw. I'd. r. l.. Agassiz and ID. Milburn.
iso5-Did not MI.
1908. Meadow Brooke. S. Reynal. J. NJ.
Waterbury. Jr.. l.. Waterbury and r. l..
Beeckman.
This season the Meadow Brook FIRST team