New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-16
+IR[VELL DINNER
FOR POLO PLAYERS
..ast Belmont, ST., Will Be
S Sssi al Meadow Brook Club
'V ~ Winners and Losers.
ELEVEN PONIES TO STAY
,,rcht by Admirers Here
'I rSallengers Sail for Home
or Thursday-Join in
friendly Game To-day.

,,,rer for the winners and losers
50 great polo game is to be given
L at the Meadow Brook Club by
"'"' belmont. ST. Both the players
Constitutes of the United States and
-. ~, Britain's teams will be present
ga ..s r. E. strawbridge, the referee;
' '' crane and Captain f. D. Miller,
r,,nires: the entire Polo Associa-
I. committee and many prominent
' y. nlayers and fox hunting men. The
...nces include those Of the two
- .rs,s injured before the decisive
-~s Of saturday, James NJ. Water
~ -. ir. who had his fingers broken
-, - tuesday. and FoXhall p. Keene,
=. accident in q practice game
~. m the team then selected to de-
..d the International trophy.
r. ~,.,A will be about one hundred per-
. resent. The decorations will be
=. ~ light blue of Meadow Brook. the
-, and white Of the Polo Association
- n. dark blue Of birmingham. 1t
rsnetitlon of a dinner given by Mr.
..,-ont at the Meadow Brook Club
!, the United states and Great
g5tain teams Of 1911
Friendly Game This Afternoon.
s.,s of the challengers and defend
arc expected to join in a game on
=. ssld of Saturdays stirring contest
~, afternoon. but there will be no for
-.r,iss about it as an international
.,,,s.t To-nights dinner will really
-,,t the withdrawal Of the challengers
ann the public eye as poloists. Near
y all will sail on the Adriatic Thurs
s,y and for lack of time the Polo AS
,.,ation cannot arrange a special din
:, for the sportsmen. Tuesday
,,,stseeins tour that will include
r.,sv Island is on the itinerary,
u.5nesday more sights. last hand
askes and packing Of grips and on
thursday they steam away.
Tho Monies we're taken from the
psiDps barns after the big game back
n the Piping Rock Country Club and
asv will be shipped TO England under
y,vlor's charge on Saturday. Eleven
ave been sold TO admirers here, but
,n of the Duke Of Westminsters own
mnies will he returned. Captain Miller
,so changed to Piping Rock. In the
,,-enoon Yesterday Captain Miller,
Lord Wodehouse and Devereux Mil
surn took part in a pickup game on
Phpps Field. Five ponies were sent
over from II. p. Whitney's place for
Vr Milburn. and the Englishmen used
gne Of their own.
NJ. Mlburn played golf on the
PIPING Rock course in the afternoon,
sid the members Of the Great Britain
team also participated in the club
SPORTS and pasumes. Mr.. Whitney and
L Waterbury were out in an automo-
he in the afternoon. William A. Haz-
ard. secretary-treasurer Of the Polo
association. talked with the English
men at Piping Rock. and later looked
n al Phipps Field. where a dozon polo
SIS had a cut-in game.
Say They Were Beaten Fairly.
Mr.. Hazard said the challengers
thought they had been beaten fairly,
md not a demur had been made 10 the
Polo Association TO any ruling Of the
lmpires. Nor had he heard anything
but praise from them over the man
sgement Of the match and the practice
games. Mr. Hazard expected another
,halenge for the cup from Hurting
IAN, but not this year.
august Belmont, sr., and Morgan
Belmont joined in the second cut in
game. playing nine ponies sent over
nom Hampstead. H. G. Phipps, Of the
United States substitutes. also played,
and others in and out Of the rapidly
shifted sides were Robert Bacon, the
former Ambassador 10 France; Robert
l. Bacon, George Milburn, w. Goadby
Loew J. Watson Webb, Thomas lie
soutilier, W Russell Grace, j. 5.