Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-21
RRITCNS SURE Of
LIFTING POLO
TROPHY
Team That Is Coming Over
This Summer Considered the
Strongest Aggregation Ever
Turned Out by Great Britain.
More Attention to Team Work
This Time

LONDON, Jan. 13.--With the grand,
ever got together and the strongest
team this country has known. England
hopes TO regain in America next June
the international polo cup which she
won as farsback as 1886.
The men chosen by Major Egerton
Green, manager OF the Nottingham
club, to second the efforts of the Duke
Of Westminster to lick the blooming
Yanks to FRAGILE" promises to give
Harry Payne Whitney's team a wal
lohing series Of games. In the opinion
Of British polo players the cup is as
good as back to England.
According TO present arrangements
the following noted British polo play.
crs will uphold the honor OF England: :
Captain George BellvilIe, w. S. Buck
master, Captain Leslie Cheape, F. n.
FTeake, Captain r. @. Ritzon and Lord
WoodhouSe. ~..zE
Contabs Picked to Win.
1t has been the misfortune of the
English polo teams In past encounters
not to have had proper opportunities
Of playing togetnerf In marked con.
trast, Whitney's team comprises four
players who have been inseparable in
the play, and who accordingly were
able to bring the principles of com.
bination TO a fine art. II was felt,
therefore, that the nucleus of the next
English team should be contributed to
by the strongest side In the country.
That side at present 10 undoubtedly
tie old Contabs. The Duke OF West
minister has fittingly recognized their
Supremacy by inviting the team en-
bloc to go 70 America Their compan-
ions will be two soldiers who have
Eained great regulations In the game.
in healthA prevented Captain. Ritzon
from figuring to the best advantage
last summer at the London clubs, but
Captain Cheape was in wonderful
form. Here Is player worthy of
comparison in strength OF hitting,
sureness Of eye and good horsemar1-
ship with the greatest Of American
backs, Deyereaux Milburn. Captain
Cheape will be all the more service
able to the team by reason of his ex-
perience in America IN 1911. and If
Buckmaster puts him at No. l or at
back he is certain to be tower of
strength to the side /. @
Ruckmaster Pleases Britons
There is general delight in polo cir
cles that the team viii be led by Buck
master. still the greatest master of
them all in spite of the fact that he
declares that he soon must be max
ing room for some Of the younger
ones.
With Freake and Buckmaster to-
gether, America will see the best
thing in polo combination that Eng
land can show. All being well, these
players will almost certainly be in the
team at No. 2 and at No. 3. Captain
Cheape. too, is certain of his place
either in front or at the back of the
game, and the four members will be
chosen at the discretion of Buck
master.
The Duke Of Westminster has shown
himself above the petty schisms which
occasionally creep into London polo.
His wealth, his influence and his en-
thusiastic love of the game are hailed
as the retort courteous to the plucky
and wealthy American Whitney. The
Britishers hope that the United States
VIII De aDie 10 put up as sIToHS
team as the Meadowbrook combina-
ton which proved victorious in 1909
and 1911.
1t is hoped here that Whitney will
change his decision to retire from in
ternational polo and once more lead
his compatriots on the field.
The management Of the British
ponies will be in the hands of Ed
Miller.