Evening star., 1909-09-12
Polo for Women in
Exclusive EnqIish Set
Special Correspondence of The Star

LONDON. September 6. 19oa.
TOR ultra smart and wealthy women
In this country polo is to be RI.
game of the immediate future.
II Will be our very own," said the
young Duchess Of Westminster RECENTLY
BY this she meant only the very wealthy
woman In the best set could possibly
aspire to play it. Oddly enough, in Eng
iano at any rate. 1t is the rich women OF
the royal set who have all the ideas where
sport or fads are concerned. 1t was the
countess of Warwick who set the craze
Tor cycling. She had twenty bikes.
eacn OF which was painted to match the
costume ,,,1 she wore when riding. Mrs.
MAue ana MRS Arthur James created
Ine passion for hockey. and it was the
Ducness of Connaught and Princess Pa
tricia who set all the smart world or
women mad over golf.
When In time these sports became
bourgeois" the originators said thav
must think Of something else pour pas
ser le temps. Just now they are crouv
Ing with the Duchess of Westminster over
the fact that at last a sport has been
.ouna whlch VIII have to be sacred to
themselves AT the very least q woman
wants three ponies for polo, and no COM
mon or garden woman with a few tho,l-
sands year can stand this expense.
me POLO season. as far as London in
OSAiiS ONcT now. the DrOmOtnrQ
of the feminine game mean to nractIus
at their respective country houses ana
tney anticipate that when the season
starts at Hanelagh and Hurlingham next
year they Will be able to play against the
men. A committee is now being formaS
which includes the names of LADY Cor
stance Stewart Richardson. Mrs. David
Beatty. Baroness Erkhardstein and other
well known and wealthy women, and thew
are on the lookout for a suitable cI,,h.
Meanwhile
forward In what the prospective guests
regard as strangely magnanimous mood
and offered the hospitality of the club
house at Hurlingham until such time as
of their own.
I'VE are determined to have a real
dandy uniform. said an American NOM
Der of the prospective club. 1T will be
life. The tunic and divided skirt will be
Of navy serge. On the perfectly cut semi
loose tunic will be epaulets of gold braid.
The cap will be simple round thing with
line of gold. 1t will be fixed on with
an old-fashioned elastic. pins being far
too dangerous, and strap under the chin.
which was suggested by several Of our
members. far too unbecoming.'
1t goes without saying that these polo
players will ride astride
'1t would be absolutely impossible IN
play polo In any other position" re-
marked Lady Castlereagh. the future
Marchioness of Londonderry, who was
one Of the very first to make astride rid
ing acceptable here. She is a beautiful
woman with a perfect figure. and she
made such ripping picture in the
hunting field that scores Of women who
hunt have initiated her.
The organizers Of the Ladies' Polo
Club have decided to establish an age
limit No. woman over thirty-eight can
join. This has made few people very
angry. In this particular set OF British
women there lis no chance OF any one
concealing her precise age. such details
being SO carefully chronicled In Burke's
Should the American woman OF uncertain
age decide to join she will have no dim
Guilty, provided she does not look her
years. for her history is not supposed to
be SO carefully kept. In regard to height
there will be no restriction. However
short a woman may be she can mount q
polo pony.