Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
j. 8. POLO STARS
MEET BRITONS
FOR TITLE
Society, Brilliantly Arrayed, Sees
First of Matches at Mead
OVERLOOK Field.

NEW YORK, june 1O.-The wealth.
beauty and arfstocracy Of America
were represented to-day in the i'm
mense crowd that arrived hours be-
fore game was called for the interna-
tional polo match between the Brit
ish chalIengers and the American
title holders.
Early indications were that the
crowd would be the largest that has
ever attended a polo game. Weeks
ago every box in the big stands at the
Meadowbrook field had been sold out
and this morning there were only a
few reserved seats lef'.
The contest itself will be almost
overshadowed by the importance Of
the day as a social event.
Weather Is IDEAL
Social tleaders from Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago, Cleveland Pittsburg,
San Francisco, Denver and many
other cities, in addition to New York,
to-day left early for the scene OF the
polo battle.
Weather conditions we're ideal, and
the fields were in lightning shape.
Everything pointed TO one Of the most
thrilling and spectacular polo matches
since the Persians discovered the
game, over 1000 years ago.
Contrary to expectations, there was
but little betting A number Of wa
gers were made at TO and ! - 70
I'm favor Of the Britons. but these
were only Of small amounts.
How Teams Line Up.
The American team was composed
of Harry Payne Whitney captain; J.
Montgomery Waterbury. Lawrence
Waterbury and Devereaux Milburn,
with Malcolm Stevenson J. f. Stod-
dard II c. Phipps r. L. Agassiz and
Rene LeMontague as substitutes.
The British team lined up as fol-
lows: Leslie Cheape, A. n. Edwards.
r. G. Ritson, captain, and Vivian
Lockett, with r. NJ. Frake and Lord
Wodehouse as substitutes
Robert f. Strawbridge served as
referee and Joshua Crane, of Boston,
and Captain e. d. Miller of England,
as field judges DR. H. A. Souther
was goal judge.
The team winning two games out
of three holds the internatiOnd.
championship and gets the silver cup,
put into play by the NeStchesttr
Polo club. of New York, in 1886.
taiued the cup for twenty three years.
During that period interest in inter-
national polo lapsed, but in 1900 and
1902 America sent strong teams 30
England and lost by narrow margins.
This revived interest i'm the game
and i'm 1909 Harry Payne Whitney
at the head Of a team composed of
himself. Lawrence Waterbury. J. VI.
Waterbury and DelvereauN Milburn
succeeded in bringing the cup 10
America In 1911 the same team sue
cessfully defended the cup against the
EngIishmen in this country
Harry Payne Whitney Is said to
have spent close to 100000 in prepa-
ration for this years international
match and the Duke of Westminster.
who is backing the English team, the
members of which belong to the IA
nous Huntington club, has spent
like sum.
A good polo pony often brings
s.. GOO and some are quoted at a
higher figure. The English team
brought over forty two ponies for the
match and the Americans have more
than fifty at their disposal
MU-h Depenos on Ponies.
Forty per cent of the game depends
on the ponies which are bred and
trained for this sport and every
thing else being equal, the side with
the better ponies viii win. The Duke
OF Westminster has had his agents
Collecting ponies from an corners of
the globe for the last two years in
order 10 get mounts for the matches
this year
Polo old-fas1ioued Shiny on
horseback. is played on a field goo
feet long and half as wide. The
boundaries Of the field are marked
hy Iu-inuh boards At either end
are tine goal posts, set "A feet apart.
Four men constitute a team. The
playing times is divided into eight
periods of seven and a half minutes
each with three minutes between pc
RODS except after the fourth, when
"a rest of seven minutes is given. Only
rarely that a player vii. use the same
mount for more than two periods.