The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-13

College, Iowa, who took both weights
for the Dark Blues with the greatest
case.
The loss of the shot put was all the
more CALLING for Cambridge, as, for
the first time in years, she had a shot
putter who could heave the lead forty
feet Zeigler did not fear this rival,
but he was after the Oxford Cam
bridge record of 43 feet 10 inches, es-
tablished by w. c. Coe, another Amer
lean, and came within seven inches
of it.
Cambridge track experts admit
rather freely that the victory of OK
ford and Cambridge two years ago
ever Yale and Harvard was due to
the prowess of Zeigler, and they have
often expressed the opinion that an
other challenge would not be received
from the other side until the big
Iovan had left Oxford.
But the challenge, in spite of this
opinion. is there, and there is little
doubt that it will be accepted. The
English team will be one of the most
uneven aggregations ever organized
for such a meet On it will be two
or three stars of the first magnitude,
hut to give the necessary competition
it will be necessary to include q. few
athletes who would not shine in an
interscholastic meet in America.
The story that some CT the old-time
stars would appear on the team is
d;Scredited and it is haF dly likely that
more than two of the men who com
peted against the American univer-
stiles two years ago viii make the
trip.
Fine English Ponies.
The Duke of Westminster claims
that his stud for the challenging Eng
fish polo team is fully equal to the
stable which. Harry Payne Whitney
brought to England in 1909, but even
so he is not yet satisfied. and he has
issued an appeal to English poloists
60 supply several more ponies, prefer
ably weight carriers.
If the English team that goes to
America is again beaten this year.
they will not be able TO use the ster-
eotyped excuse that the superiority of
the American ponies caused their
downfall. Among the volunteers who
have stepped forward to provide the
two or three weight carriers needed
are Captain Edgar Brassey, who is
lending his noted grey mare; Captain
A. s. Willis, who has offered the best
of his stable, and Lord Ashby St.
Ledgers. who has offered one pony.
With the idea of recovering the polo
cup the Duke OF Yves minister formed
3 stable of forty high class ponies, but
only seventeen of these have come up
to the standard required for interna-
t:onal polo. A total of thirty-seven
ponies is now in sight for the work
this summer In America, and only
few more are needed to make the
stable complete.
Captain Thomas Fleming Day, the
American who piloted the motor boat
Detroit across the Atlantic last sum-
nler proba bly, will he selected IS the
navigating officer Of the yacht which
Sir Thomas Upton will send to San
Francisco 10 compete in the races
there during the Panama Pacific in
ternational exposition. The Yacht will
be called the Shamrock and will be
the fifth of that ilk II the New York
Yacht Club gives Sir Thomas the
privilege of sailing Shamrock " for
the Americas cup.
The yacht will cross the Atlantic
under its own sail. be towed through
the Panama canal and go thence up
the Pacific coast to San Francisco,
again under its own canvas. The
racer will be conveyed by Sir Thomas
steam yacht Erin.