Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-31
INTERNATIONAL
POLO MATCH
English Cavalry Officers Will
Try to Take Trophy
From Americans.
TO Be A GREAT CONTEST
Same Team That Brought Cup
Here Represents the
United States.

New York. May 31.-The Interna.
tional Polo match, on the grounds of
the Meadowbrook Club has been post
| poned because of rain and slippery
: Held until 4:30 p. IN. tomorrow.
international Trophy.
| New York, May 31.--Of the six cav.
airy officers included in the British
army's expedition to this country in
quest of the international polo trophy
the following quartet is announced by
Captain J. Hardress Lloyd. their team
| captain, to take the field tomor
row in the first game of the interna
tional series against the American de.
Tending team at the Meadowbrook
Hunt Clubs especially prepared polo
ground:
First orward-Captain Leslie St.
George Cheape of the Kings Dragon
Guards.
Number Two-Lieut A. Noel Ed
wards of the Ninth Lancers.
Number Three-Captain ]. Hard
ress Lloyd of the Fourth Dragons.
Back-Captain H. Herbert Wilson,
of the Yorkshire Yeomanry.
Two extra players are Lieutenant
E. W. Palmes of the Tenth Hussars
and Captain F. w. Barrett of the Fiji
teenth Hussars. Palmes was famous
as first forward but is not in today's
lineup because his team mates con-
slider him too light an opponent for
Devereux Milburn, the great Amer-
can back, who weighs nearly 200
pounds. is a furious rider and drives
the ball terrifically.
Captain Barrett of the Fifteenth
Hussars, who was rated as a ten goal
man, the highest official rating ever
given any player, when playing in In
dia, came to play back for the chal-
lenging team but he seemed unable to
master the different style of play OF
the American game or to accustom
himself to playing on horses instead
of the fourteen hand ponies which
are used in India
Another change which has initiated
against the playing form of the visit.
ors is the heavy growth of grass and
soft turf of the polo field on Long
Island. In India the cradle of polo for
the British cavalry, the grounds are
almost barren of grass and baked as
hard as pavement by the tropical
sun. Members of the challenging
! team say that the dead and slow turf
which they find on Long Island neces-
states quite different style of play
than that to which they were accus-
toned.
| The visitors also find striking diff
ference in the rules of the game here
! in that there is no such thing as "off
side" in the American game while in
all other countries there is strict
rule against what is designated as "off
side" play. 1t is admitted by the
members of the American team as
well as the challengers that the game
has been changed vitality by the Amer.
ican Polo Association in this respect.
The following definition of "off
side" play is given by the captain Of
the British team: "a player is of side
when at the time of the ball being hit
no member of the opposing team is be-
tween him and the opposing teams
goal or goal line, and he is neither
playing the ball himself nor behind
one of his own team who is playing it.
The idea of this rule, as explained
by the visiting poloists is to prevent
the first forward from cruising around
between the man playing back for the
other team and that other teams goal
waiting for some member of his own
team to send the ball to him for slam.
ming it through to goal. This way
of playing the visitors declare, robs
polo of half its interest and reduces il
to series of rapid rushes first for
one goal and then for the other.
But the American rules do not draw
the line against playing off side and
the cup is to be played for under
American rules because the cup is
held here by virtue of Harry Payne
Whitney's team having captured it in
London two years ago.
| Originally the International Polo
cup was played for at Newport in 1886
and was won and carried away from
American by an English team which
retained it until June, 1909. The
American team that lost the cup in
1886 was made up of Thomas Hitch
cock, captain. Foxhall Keene, Ray
moAd Belmont and w. X. Thorn.
Ten years ago Foxhall Keene or
ganized team composed of himself
the two Waterburys, John E. Cow
din and Rudolph Agassiz, as an extra
player, to recover the cup. But the
cup did not come back until Harry
Payne Whitney had spent two years
in preparing an expedition of foul
players whose team work had beer
brought to a state of perfection never
approached on either side of the Allan
tic nor in India and who were mount
ed on the best polo ponies that could
be purchased at any price. The fast
est and cleverest Of these ponies are
still at the disposal of the American
cup defenders and many more of the
highest quality have been purchased
at great cost in England, ireland
and India, the stronghold of British
polo.
"The Americans have acn,,irod nra n
tically all the very best polo ponies
developed in our country during the
last five years Captain Hardness