New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
FoxhalI Keene, Newly Appoint
ed Captain, Breaks Collar
bone in Practice at
Meadow Brook.
NO SUCCESSOR APPOINTED
Committee Will Select Substi-
tute To- -morrow-Followers
of Game Feel Gloomy
Over Outlook for I'm
pending Contests,

| Foxhall T. keene. one Of Americas
best known polo players and gentleman
riders, broke his left collarbone in a
practice game at the Meadow Brook
| Club yesterday morning
This mishap is the worst Of several
10 retard the effort to form a team to
defend the international cup. Mr.
keene only on Thursday was named to
! succeed Harry Payne Whitney as cap
! tain OF the team which will face Great
Britain's four in the first clash on
! Tuesday. and the blow has fairly
stunned close followers of the sport
The accident came at the close Of the
fourth period. when the opponents to
the American four-Stoddard Milburn.
keene and Stevenson-led by goals
to 3. Larry Waterbury had hit out the
ball AT the north end of the big Meadow
| Brook field and Keene. who had been
racing up to back it. had ridden over
the border line and was pulling UP the
pony, seeing that further effort was
useless.
There is slight slope away from the
held at that end. and AT n moment when
| the rider was not expecting any trouble
! the pony crossed its forelcgs 10 turn
| Ing and fell In a heap The animal
turned half-somersaut. but Kcene
was thrown clear and landed on his
! right shoulder. He tried TO get up. but
could not do so without assistance.
Mr.. Keene vas carried into the club
house and DR. John Mann summoned
| from Westbuy. After having the
! broken bone set the injured player re-
gained his equanimity and declared
that he would not lie forsaken at
| Meadow Brook while there was racing
/ going on at Piping Rock. He went 10
| Piping Rock in an automobile and was
/ in the clubhouse during the rainstorm.
1T Is an unfortunate happening"
Keene said 10 his sympathizers. but
| only one Of the chances Of polo"
Mr.. Keene broke the same collarbone
some years ago while fox hunting on
| Long Island. In the last period OF the
first game for the Polo Association
/ championship at Prospect Park.
Brooklyn. in 1895. he had a similar ac-
cident after a collision with J. Black
wood Fay. OF Myopia. in which tho
ponies and the men crashed together to
| the turf.
Mr.. Kee-e will not be able to play In
the impending match for the interna-
tional cup against the British players.
II. l.. Herbert, II. +. Whitney and the
members Of the Polo Association com
mittee had a conference last night at
the Piping Rock Club. but no selection
OF a player TO take Mr.. keene's place
will be made until tomorrow. The
available. but the individual 10 be Sc
/ lected is really secondary 10 the rear
rangemeLt that must be made. The
committee will take up the matter
again to-day.
Larry" Waterbury has been most
often spoken Of as the new man. but
| the committeeman and poloists in gen.
eral are all at sea. The mishap has
come like a bolt from the blue, and the
result is TO completely upset for the
present all plans regarding the defence
Of the international cup.
| w. A. Hazard. secretary OF the Polo
Association, admitted when called over
| the telephone at his home in Cedar
hurst that the outlook was gloomy and
that solution. of the unexpected prob
lem had not been reached.
Speaking for the players. Mr.. Stod-
dard. of the American team. said at the
Piping Rock races that the accident 10
MIR. Keene was as deplorable as II was
unexpected. He was confident that the
team would be ably augmented from
the available material and that the cup
would be well defended. He compared
the loss Of Mr.. Keene to that OF the
challengers in losing Mr.. Buckmaster.
Substitutes must be ready when
needed" said Mr.. Stoddard. end
America and England are fortunate in
| having BOOu men At 'dH w sup NV"
anv gap that circumstances may make
! in either team"
Mr. Buckmaster could not play for
the cup at Hurlingham In 1909 on ac-
count OF a broken collarbone. and a
similar accident at Lakewood, In the
spring Of 1910, cut short his visit TO
this country with the Ranelagh party,
which included Captain r. ID. Miller,
Lord Decies, Captain Bellwood and
Captain de Crespigny. all Of whom
played at Lakewood throughout the
April tournament Of that year.
| II is expected that there will be a
practice game tomorrow at Meadow
Brook by the reorganized team.
The lineup at Meadow Brook yes
terday against the international team
was: No /. c. c. Rumsey; No. 2. ]. M.
| waterbury, jr.: No. 3, l.. Waterbury.
and back. II. G Phipps After the acci-
| dent r. L. Agassiz played In Mr..
Keene's place.
| There was no scoring in the first
neriod. In the second Rumsey. L. wa
terbury and Stoddard made goal
apiece. j. NJ. Waterbury made the only
| goal I'm the third In the fourth period
| Stoddard made two and Milburn one
| goal only one period was played after
| Agassiz Joined In. He, Rumsey ana L.
| Waterbury scored. leaving the Rumsey
II . I, A n