Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-19
IT, ARMY RIDERS
To OPPOSE ]. BULL
Cavalry Officers on Edge Await
ing Competition with English
HuSsars and LanCers
MAY BE OTHER ENTRANTS
Crack Riders from France and
Belgium Expected at New
York Horse Show

NEW YORK, July 1S.-American
cavalry officers, particularly those
stationed at the western army posts,
are on edge awaiting the selection of
the teams which will participate in
the international competitions at the
National Horse show in New York
next November against the crack rid
ers of Great Britain's Hussars and
Lancers, who have accepted the assoc
cations invitation to compete.
In addition to the British officers
President Alfred G.. Vanderbilt is
hopeful of securing the presence of the
French and Belgian riders who COM
peted so successfully in the interna-
tional horse show at the London Olym-
pia last month.
At the national show at Madison
Square garden last year the American
team, which included Lieut.. Eben
Swift, jr., Eleventh United States cav
airy; Lieut.. John c. Montgomery,
Seventh United States cavalry; Lieut..
]. S. Martin, Fourteenth United States
cavalry; Lieut.. Gordon Johnston,
Third United States cavalry, and
Lieut.. George w. Lee, Seventh United
States cavalry, made splendid show
ing, considering the short time at their
disposal for schooling after the war
department had sanctioned their par
ticipation in the big event
In the international horse show In
London, Belgium and France sent
their finest riders into the arena with
the officers of the Sixteenth Lancers
in the competition for the King Ed
ward cup and the Britons were over
whelmed by the art and the wonder
fully schooled animals of the conti-
mental officers. Only a single fault
separated Belgium, which won from
France, the second choice, while the
Lancers were Inundated by criticism
urging a new system of schooling In
riding along the lines of the continen-
tai armies. The United States army
was not represented in the competi-
tion, but it has been reported to the
officials of the national show there is
good reason to believe the men in blue
who will appear IN the ring at Mad
ison Square garden will represent the
flower of the picked riders of the army.
Not little of the success attending
the jumping and riding exhibitions Of
the British army horsemen in the ma
tional and international horse shows
held in New York and Chicago respec-
lively last winter was due to the di-
rection of Col. the Hon. j. G. Beres-
ford, D. S. o., Seventh Hussars, AL
dershot, who again will have complete
charge of the English team, which will
include Lieut.. Godfrey Brooke of the
Sixteenth Lancers. who led the Brit
ish riders and jumpers in the inter-
national show at the Olympia in June.
Added interest has been given to the
promise of a team of British officers
by the report from Lieut.. Winfield b.
Sifton of Toronto, Canada, that the
Dominion government VIII formally
conclude arrangements soon whereby
"a of Canadian officers will
attend the national show. These rid
ers are quite likely to be provided with
the best schooled mounts to be found
in Canada, so eager are the officers
of the war department to show the
superiority of the Canadian soldiers
over the team from the mother coun-
try as we'll as the teams of thes con-
tinent.
1T is obvious" said Robert A. Fair
BARN, chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the National Horse Show
association, yesterday, that keen in
terest follows the official announce
ment of the acceptance of our invita-
tion to the British sldiers to compete
with our men. AS to the plans OF the
United States army officers for send
ing "A team to the show to meet the
foreigners in the jumping events,
nothing official may be said at this
time. our hope is that the rivalry will
bring forth results-that the banners
of not only the Lancers and Hussars
from England, but the soldiers from
Canada and the picked officers from
the continental troops will be seen in
the arena at Madison Square garden.
More attention has been paid of late
to the schooling OF army officers in
riding than ever. A team of American
soldiers that could successfully COM
pete with the foreigners and carry off
of patriotic citizens for the cavalry
men in blue"