The Washington times., 1912-07-12
FIFTH ARTILLERY
|. POLO|STS TO PLAY
WASHINGTON TODAY
Fort Sill Team and District
Army Officials Will Clash
AT Potomac Park.

A team representing Washington,
composed of the army officers sta
toned in this city will be pitted
against the crack Fort Sill, Okla. team
this afternoon in the third game OF
the military polo tournament being
held between the different polo ag-
gregations of the United States army
in Potomac Park.
Secretary of War Stimson and many
of the leading military and naval or
ficials saw the team from Fort Myer,
Va, go down to defeat at the hands
of crack Sixth Field Artillery team.
The contest, though q one-sided af-
fair, the score standing 12h to " at
the close, furnished plenty of thrills
for the spectators.
Victors' Team Work.
Never throughout the contest were
the colors of the artillery team in
danger Of being lowered. From the
start superior team work of the vic
tors presaged the outcome. The fea-
ture of the game was the playing of
Lieut. A. L. H. Sands and the single
goal made by Lieut.. Rumbough of the
Fort Myer team.
Today's game Is expected to be one OF
the best matches of the tournament, not
only in attendance, because Of the prom
inence of the officers who will play for
Washington, but on account of the
prospects of the contest being a hard
fought affair
Tho local team will be composed of
older and well-known members OF the
army. most of whom have been sta
toned at the War Department and other
army posts in this vicinity and are well
known to Washingt onians.
Among those who witnessed the play
yesterday with Secretary OF war stun.
son were Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief OF
Staff; General Crozier, General Weaver,
General Edwards, Gen. Albert l. Mills,
president of the War College and former
superintendent Of the United States Mill
tary Academy, West Point. and MRS
Mills; General Carter, Colonel Gerard,
comma ndant of Fort Myer; Lieut.: Col.
John E. Mahon, of the General stan
composed of Miss Marie Newton Miss
Edna Hirshiger, Miss Birney, and w. II.
Sheppard: G. o. Totten. jr' and the
members of his party, Miss Marjorie
Smith and Glen Brown.
Team Members.
The officials of the field were from the
Eleventh Cavalry, the victors in the
first contest Wednesday. Colonel Treat
vas referee; Lieutenant Mills and Lieu
tenant Kimball, goal keepers: Captair
~~Langhorne, score keeper, and Lieuten
ant Chandler, timekeeper.
Those who formed the teams yester
day were Sixth Field Artillery: l. Lieut.
Parker; 8, Lieut.. E. D. Hoyle back
Lieut.. Sonic A. Beard. Fort Myer: Lieut.
Alexander Surles, jr.: 2. Capt. Julian r
Lindsay; 3, Lieut.. Stanley NJ. Rum
bough: back, Lieut.. Victor s. Foster
all of the Fifteenth Cavalry
Those who will play today will be:
Washington: Maj. H. T. Allen. Gen
eral staff; 2, Lieut.. Col. John e. Nc
Mahon, General Staff: 8. Mad. William
Lassiter, General Staff; back, Capt
Frederick B. Hennessy, 3D.. Field Artil
lory. Substitutes, Lieut. Edwin St. J
Crib, Third Field Artillery, and Lieut.
Thomas Dew. Milling. Fifteenth Cav
airy.
Fifth Field Artillery: /. Lieut. Franci
w. Honeycutt, 2, Capt. Beverly j
Browne; 3, Capt. Carlborough Church
Ill; back. Lieut.. John A. Crane; substi
tute. Lieut. Ralph Med. Pennell.