Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15
English Polo Players PREPARE
ToC7ean Out Alleged Grafters

| of the game he finished by buying tho
pony for $2.s25.
RATHER UNSPORTsMANLIKE.
While no one has ever Objected D.,
the brothers Miller executing tbe,T
deals, they, brought matters tn -
crlsis last summer by refusing To ianS
.helf ponies to the 'Burlingham clnb nm
y Miller was chosen in tha
% alei itoa team This action naturaIly
aroused a great deal of indignatIon -,
an the clubs. and the question of
"hether English polo should he GOV
eihed III Such an unSportsmanlike man
her at once became widely discussed
Ing birmingham club tried To pIaoata
It's critics by inviting the other. Iead-
ing cru ciuoS-Roehampton and Ranclarh.
1S wen aS the Army and the County
folo asSociation-to send represcnta,
tiVes to meeting to choose the sccon.I
International team. However. as tho
cluo made sure that it would hnve :,
majority on the committee. RaneIacn
refused, so that the English team was
really chosen BY Maj. F. Egerton Green,
manager OF Hurlingham,, Capt E. ID.
Miller and c. D. Miller. OF Roehamp
Polo players have now decided to cn1
the domination of dealers who. IL moi
cleared out OF the game altogether
certainly VIII not be allowed TO govern
1t as they have hitherto done.
Even Maj. Eserton Green. whose
puSitlon as manager of the Hurlingbam
club makes him the official chief VI
English polo-for the Hurlinrham ruIa,
govern the game-has not hesitatej IN
make money by selling his best pon,s,
when fancy prices were offered. and
ms trading and the commercial propen-
stiles of the Millers, combined with
tneir refusal to lend ponies. have all
tended to bring Hurlipgham down from
its nigh estate Players row demand
that all future international matohe,
between England and America shall pa
arranged and managed by a board of
control which Will be responsible for
selecting the team and also getting to-
eether the best ponies in the British
Isles Needless to say, Ranelagh Is
strongly In favor of this new departurs
and In discussing the question with the
writer a few days ago a prominent
member. and player. of the RaneIaGn
club said:
BEGIN TO TAKE NOTICE.
The question of how our matches
with America will be managed is very
important In fact, the whole future
of polo i'll England is really affected Ly
IT. The Ranelagh club has long beeh
of the opinion that everything con-
nected with these contests should bs
placed in the hands OF a properly con-
stituted board of control II wou!i
represent all sections of players, and its
sole object would be to choose The best
men and secure the best ponies
This would settle the pony dIf-
hculty at once. for. naturally, those
who had appointed the board would he
anxious to assist Its members. and there
is not player in England or Ireland
who WOlIl1 nnt Nvil1Ino1tr }, &c hao
ponies to men who We're chosen on
their merits as players to represent
England against America.
TIME TO CALL A HALT.
But when we find horse-dealers
practically telling the Hurlingbam club
that they won't lend them their ponies
unless n certain person Is. chosen in .ha
team, ii Is about time some drastic
measures were taken to alter this state
of things
The Hurlngnam club Is largely de-
pendent on gate money; and this fact
frequently must influence the commit
tees decision. II Is the knowledge that
such is the case that makes so many
OF US anxious to have al indeuendent
tody to deal. with international cnii-
tests
polo has spread so rapidly in reccat
years that il has got beyoud the man-
aGement OF the committee of any s'ngl3
club, There sould lie a National Polo
association. on which every club would
be represented properly. This DIV
could discuss polo matters Officially.
and as no single club would receive
more consideration than any other the
best results should be obtained At
any rate, there would be no room "a
such Il body for the player who is in "a,
game for what he can make out OF It
by selling ponies to wealthy men.
They would be shut out, and grating.
which l am sorry to say is ramp9nt
now. would be prevented
''The system that we, at Ranelagh.
propose is an equitable one, and, whe1
once 1t is put TO the vote OF the clubs
In the British Isles. Will be carried
easily. In this agitation the Ranclagh
club has the support of the County Polo
association; our proposal appeals to
every man OF common sense, and We
intend 10 make polo 81 clean game
again by getting rid OF the horse-dcal'
ing element