Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-09
POLO TROPHY IS
APPARENTLY
SAFE
English Finding 1t Difficult TO
Get a Team Together to Meet
the American Four

England's chances of bringing back
the international polo cup, which
Harry Payne Whitney and his team
won for the United States three
years ago, and which an English
team failed to ~recapture year ago,
seem to grow simmer as time flies
by. For more than a year the Duke
of Westminster. who took upon his
shoulders the responsibility of bring
ing the cup to England once again,
regardless of cost, has been working
tC get together a team that would be
reasonably sure of giving the Ameri-
cans a good fight, but events of the
last few days have demonstrated that
he has been unsuccessful So poorly
has his star combination performed
that 1t Is unlikely there will be an
English challenge next year, as. was
confidently expected. :: ..
Financial Loss,
1t probably will be remembered
that the Nottingham club, which sent
over the English team last year, fail
ed to meet expenses and was saved
from a serious financial loss by the
Duke OF Westminster, who came for
ward and not only paid all the ex.
penses, but undertook to supply the
money for the next assault upon
American polo supremacy. The Duke
took over. the fourteen ponies which
were the property of the polo fund,
and with. them as nucleus started, to
collect the finest aggregation of polo
Eorseflesh in the worlds All his enor-.
nous income was placed at the dis
posal; of such experts as, the Miller
Bros, the famous horse Dealers. who
some years beforg secured for Harry
Payne Whitney sefae of his finest
animals - -@.gsssss IT,. .~. j
Mounts High Class. .ss ...
The result has been that the duke
is now the owner Of almost 100 first
class ponies, andss SO far as animals
are concerned, is more than q match
for his American rivals It cannot
be urged now. as it was when the Eng
lish team went down to, defeat last
year. that England is unfairly out
classed in horseflesh. The Dukes
Zeal troubles, are in a different direc-
tion. Now that his horses are ready,
his players are, not. The, Eaton team, u,
composed of Cecil Nickalls, G.. ID.
Miller (hOth of whom played against
Foxhall Keene's American team
which visited London in 1902, Capt.
r. g. Ritson and Lord Rocksavage,~
which it was proposed to send to
the United States, has, despite it's
greatest advantage in ponies, metz
with some disastrous defeats recent
ly. At the present moment it can
not but be recognized, even by the
Duke, that his team would stand
small chance with the strong four
that America could put in the field.
Not Strong Enough.
Besides being beaten by the old
he captaincy of w. L. Euckmaster-a
the best polo player in England to-
day, whom many regret to- see alb.
sent from any English challenging
Eatons were severely
by a scratch organization of r
from the Argentine club, !
who have thrown a bombshell into
he English polo world this season by &,
playing rings around the best Local
talent that could be pitted against
hem.
It Is realized that there are few
polo enthusiasts in England capable
Of shouldering the financial burdens
Incident upon an attempt to recap
-ure the international cup. There
,ore, while there is no end of criti-
ism of the Duke and of the make
Up of his team, there are no offers /
20 relieve him of the burden. 1t is
elt, however, that before Eaton final
v decides to cross the Atlantic, they
should prove their worth against the
strongest team of English players
hat could be selected, mounted upon
,onies of at least equal caliber