New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
4 FULL MONTH OF POL0'
tournament at NarraganSett
Pier Begins This Week.
CUPS AND PRIZES GALORE
Army, Canadians and Western
ers to Cross Mallets on Point
Judith Clubs Field.

OuUlIu S1up . lCtu.
NarraEansett Pier will be the Mecca for
lovers Of polo this week, as the Point
Judith Polo Club will open its tournament
On Saturday, which will last the better
part OF month. and in which the three
national championships, the senior junior
and open, and many cup fixtures will be
decided. According to the tentative sched-
ule, the Watch Hill cups and the Overture
cups both handicaps, will be played for
during the week of July %; the senior and
open championships and the Army and
Navy cups in the week beginning July %;
the Junior championship in the week be-
ginning August 3, and the Atlantic and
Pier championship cups in the week be-
ginning August y.
The entries for the championships and
cup games closed during the week. and the
players were named, with the exception OF
those TO represent the army who have not
yet been picked out. Two army teams are
expected. and they will be made up Of the
best eight individual players and will have
the best ponies owned by the government
This is a new departure. the army hitherto
having only been represented at tourna-
ments by teams entered from a separate
detachment In June there was an elimina-
ton tournament at Fort Sam Houston.
Tex. in which the team Of the 9Th Field
Artillery, of Fort Sill, Okla. defeated
teams of the Sd Cavalry and the Sd Field
Artillery both stationed at the Texas post.
The selections for the Pier Cup will not be
known until after the tournament held at
Washington this week and next among
teams from the 5th Field Artillery. West
Point, Washington, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga,
and Fort Riley, Kan.
Last year the New Haven Polo Club four
won the Army and Navy cups, beating the
Dedham team in the fnal That the army
players will figure prominently this season
is expected and the riding Of the West
Point trained players will be as dashing as
ths. Of the clubnen.
The trophy for the senior championship
is gold cup given by William Waldorf
Astor, now Of England, 10 the Tuxedo
Club in 1883. 10 be played for there an
nualy for the American championship. The
Tuxedo Club found IL impracticable to lay
out a polo field at that time. and 10 carry
cut the intention Of the donor gave the cup
10 the Polo Association, which was formed
IN 1890
The serior championship was first played
at Pro.y,Cf Park, Brooklyn. in 1885, and
vas wln in a sensational final by the
Myopia Hunt Club team-A. P. Gardner.
r I. Agassiz, r. G. Shaw. ID, and F.
lockwood Fay. The Rockaway team led
= ,Fo goals at the beginning Of the last
rtriod when Foxhall Keene was injured by
q collision with Fay, one of the heaviest
nsn that ever played polo, and was carried
unconscious from the field which was sur
nunded by thirty thousand spectators.
Rcekeway had no substitute ready. and
had TO finish out after q delay with only
three men. and the Bostonians gained the
initial American championship.
The Junior championship was inaugurated |
IN 1900 for n trophy presented by the late
Samuel D Warren. of Dedham, Mass II
Is for teams Of four whose aggregate handi |
cap does not exceed twenty goals and TO
Include no player with higher handicap
than five goals. This was intended as a
feeder for the senior. and originally the
winners had a free entrance TO the Astor
cup contest. But this is no longer the
case. for until this season the junior has
always been played first. The handicap Is
only 10 show the class. for both champion
sblps are played as scratch matches.
The open championship for a trophy
given by Joseph B. Thomas. jr.. became
fixture in 1910 1t was won then by team
from the Ranelagh Club. London-R. y.
and F. Grenfen the Earl OF Rocksavage
aad F. A Gill. II did not fill last year, !
but this season will be competed for by the
Piping Rock, the Meadow Brook, the Rock
away and several picked teams. 1t is a free
for-al as TO clubs and players, but the
senior and junior championships are lin
tied to teams from clubs In the Polo Asso-
cation
This time the latter clause is 20 be
waived to permit the entrance of a team
fom the Back River Country Club. OF
Montreal In the junior 1t is the only time
Canada has been represented at the Pier.
The Kansas CITY Polo Club is also to have
pioneer Western team in the junior Also
Entered in the junior championship are
representatives Of the Great Neck. the
Ayopa, the Cooperstown, the Dedham the
Philadelphia City Troop. the Philadelphia
Country Club. the Bryn Mawr and the
hpng Rock clubs and Of the army.
The same clubs and also the ROckaway
hunting Club will have teams in the
senior championship. This will be the
sshteenth renewal Of the senior champion
NIP. The Meadow Brook Club, OF Long
uiand. has won the title six times, but
Nsying different men as a rule. The last
nfee contests have been at Narragansett
ter' and the series marks the reorganiza-
uoh Of the Point Judith Polo Club and its
Suainment 70 a position as the national
POO heid corresponding 10 that held by the
Hurungnam Club in Great Britain.
lac committee OF the Point Judith Polo
s'ua Is made up Of Harry Payne Whitney
'oseph B. Thomas and William A Hazard
:, :, new York; Louis T. Stoddard, Of New
maven; Robert f. Strawbridge and Philip
y r. Randolph. Of Philadelphia, and r. L.
Asassiz Of Boston.
ossides the championships and tourna-
sne under handicaps the Point Judith
'oh Includes matches tor the national
n' cups. which are awarded to the four
"a, making the most points throughout
ssason, and there are also pony handi-
matches, from which any pony may be
/ ned at an upset price of $500, a condi-
itees
NJ mas not been our intention 10 conduct
- 49, al the Point Judith Polo Club as an
,Fely private amusement" said Jo-
o. Thomas, Of the committee. Be
eohGucted on subscription basis OF
~'efship, stranger can without pre-
a. preparation or introduction take up
!. same The idea is sport for all classes
1 b pNyers This means attention 10 the
ee' OF the beginner as well as OF the