The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

tnx of the English polo team for this country to-day the American polo authorities will be relieved of anxiety regarding situation which at times promised to develop hasco in the first of the International team con- tests of the present season of sport Less than ten days ago 1t appearsd 4s though the match was to 1a11 through owing to the inability of Lord W1nborne to secure a reprp- sentative team to compete for the cup challenEed for by the Hurlingnarn Club
 Great measure was brought to bear upon th4 factions whose petty biek- exfnES threatened to disrupt thea taazn and the party which sails to- day Includes the following players And subEt1tutes: Captain H. A. Tern ham. No 2: Major r. W. Barrett. No and Captain Leslie St. C. Cheape hack, with Major B H. Mathew-Lln- uowe, aud Baron WImborne as s'1b-
 while this team Is admittedly not khe beat examination in Enelands having been repeatedly defeated by Walter s Buckaaster's four in prac~s tlce Ezmee, 1t includes players who are ranked with the leaders of Eng 1ish po1o- Whether this comh1n atlon Is strong enough to wrest the Inter nadonA1 Po1o ChallenEe Cup ncm the posSezsion fo the American defend CTS Is a question which is being ar Eued In polo circles thr6 6ushout xi1e that 1t is not las strong as the Enslish team of 1911 and the same contention 4s held when the Americsn teams Of 1s1S and 1914 are compared
 There IS no denying the fact that the withdrawal from active play of Captain Harry Payne Whitney weak enod the 1Eeadowbrook four. Eur thernore there Is no substttute now being consfdered for his place who fs within several goals of Wh1tney,s -riana Broadly speaking. both Hl1ig- Haif and American teams as outlined at present appear t0 be 30 per cent. weaker than Waa the case last June, when the United States team wen bst 1n Ia to T 1-& i'm two straight gam es~
 Another United states delegate to the Intafnat1pnal Athletic Fedefats on and Internationa1 Olympic Games EonEress sails for Fraaee to-day in the perBcu of James E. Sullivan sec- retary of the Amateur Athletic Union. According to Mr- Sullivan, the A. A. u- will be represeuted at Lyon8. France. by five delegakes to the In ternat4onal Athletic Federation me ct ing June {. and following days. ana thef American Olympic Committee by twice that number of 7eleEate4 at the | Olympic Games Congress Fat Pal1a,3 June 13- kLzI1@18 EU-lL -ELl<<2tt men are LuGE6 | of separate and distinct organiEaticns have a direct bearing, however, on | the future of all Olympic and inter national track and field sports One of the principal features of the I. A. | F. schedule is the comDIetion Of sn Olympic Games program which the Federation hopes the Olympic Con- sress win adopt or at least incorpo- rate in it's program for the 1915 games at Berlin
 Com1neutins on this feature of the work 9eerstary Sullivan said l
 .1 eHp8et these two meetings to have most inportant bearing orr the fututre of international athietzr cpn7nAt1tz0n- know that the gener- Ri rlMn for the Berlin gam e@ will he 1 ndophad ait the Paris meeting, and t | hop@ that if will in part at leaast 1 aBree with the program drawn up by l the A F. delegates. One thing in 1 certain however. and that is that future Olympic tehrns will be smaller m rumbee than i'm the past
 Under the proposed plans 1t will | nct+re poRsfb1e to enter more than 50 i per cenf- of the Athletes who ooaapet- | ed In Olympic Games Of the past for thi9 country This means that vel win have to hold more elimfnation [ meets than in other years ana re- l duce the American team of 1915 to | the verey cream of our track and field l talent Athletics like Howard Drew, I
 
 hs1rdfer. will have to forego compst- | Ing in the broad jump and other E events of like type and stick to thelr | regular eFents fl they expect Co ma ke l the team Under She old conditions | there Bas room for men good in sev- f ara1 events In 1916 it will be the ] best men in each event that will ma <e I the team and ana sure .tflAt even l such renaerkable performers as Kelly l and Drew cannot continue 10 corr l pete in several events in an affern36r [ as Drew did aft the Pennsvlvarfa re- E lay carnival and retain their form for |
 The rsduczdon in the size of the ! teAm will aln0 require q change in the | methods of conducting the eiiua1ra- X tonn In place of the meets held in \ various p@rt@ of th& country folio ~ ! ed by the selection Of the team bv 4 K roram1ttee 1t will De necessAry to hold f preliminary trycuts In vhrious sec ] lions of the states to be followed by k Hnml meet. at say the Harvard sta- niun1, in which the winners and eec- end men at each preliminary shah l ronrDste in the finals In the nnal Olympic event would make the tee m. I and sail from New York or Bostoa | within two or three days after inc E games at Cambridge. This method E in the states and will be fair to slI. I for since we cannot enter but a. frsc. | non of the number who competed ia | former Olympic meets it necessarily | fellows that we must select fhcse F Who prove beyond doubt their right | Do be cu the team |
 Ability to break records in stadirr, | building Appears to be one of the E necessary requisites on the part Of | successful construction concerns these days. Federal League base- bali clubs and college athletic ass. E 1iAtlons all demand speedy conaple- | lion of stadfurns when contracts sss ] lat The case of the Princeton ana | Yale stAdiuns now In course of con