Evening journal., 1914-05-29
ENGLISH after
THE POLO PRIZE
Everything Except RevOlu-
ton Marks the Prelimi-
nary Matches
AMERICANS ARE
JUST LOOKING ON
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
Written for the United Press.

NEW lOttN, May aJ.--M TN couul-
tions in England having fairly re-
vealed a cabinet crisis while old J.
Bull was trying to get together a
real polo team to challenge for the
International Cup next month and
the honorable chaileugers being ham,
mered from pillar to post by Walker
Buclxmasters scrub team, we on
this side Of the Atlantic might begin
to figure how it will feel to have the
cup lifted
Somehow or other things sort OF
work out that way. When the other
guy looks the worst in the prelimin-
airy set-tos and you hear all about
him staggering rapidly toward the
grave. he suddenly comes to with a
yelp and delivers some terrible blows
for a cadaver
Everything except revolution and
bloOdshed marked the preliminaries
for the polo invasion over in Eng
land The team arrived here today,
having sailed on the twenty-third,
and will Immediately start practice
on the Meadow Brook Field Their
ponies have been here for a week
and having been unlimbered by the
% groOms who accOn panied them on
the steamship Minneapolis are in
good shape for the work ahead
The British team may be weak as
cables from the other side indicated
before they sailed but they passed
through much the same muss expert
enced by the American big Four" of
last year, which v viped up a large
section Of sod and earth with the
challenging team, which was picked
10 beat them hands down.
History has a habit of repeating
itself, some one once idly remarked,
as he bet his stack Oh a full house to
find that the other man held "fours."
Having slipped something over on the
English last year with q supposedly
tOttoring team, may we therefore ex-
pect the Britons to return the com
pliment.
Jumping bltheiy back into last
year, IL may be recalled that but a
short time before the big matches
were to be played the governing
powers decided the American team
was not what it should be and started
in TO re-organiza. Harry Payne
Whitney the captain, stepped from
the saddle and FoXhall Keene took
his place Right afterward Keene
and a pony he was riding parted COM
pany rather unceremoniously, Keene
charging the grOunC head-On. His
shoulder was fractured and there
/ had 10 be another reorganization.
! Whitney went back tc the team and
what the two Waterburys, Devereux
| Milburn, and Whitney did TO the chal-
lcngers is history.
While the American team has been
practcising no great yelps of Joy
have been coming from their camp.
They are in good shape and ready for
the fray, but those llngllshmen have
had such q stormy Voyage up to this
stage of the game that once they
strike peace and quiet they may be-
gin to set into action Lord VIM
borne. who is financing the polo in
vaslon and furnishing most of the
ponies has found his patriotic ideas
sadly walloped from time to time.
Picking his team from the army
Lord Wimborne took men, ponies and
all 70 Spain for Spring training.r
They spring trained and then on
alighting on home soil again found
/ chat the Nottingham committee. the
Big Chief of all things POLO in Eng
/ land did not approve of them. They
were sentenced TO Play a four headed
/ IN Walter Buckmaster. just to see
how Daj they really were.
II the string of defeats handed the
challengers stands for anything his
LOrdship's team lived up to all ex-
uecfatiOns as 10 being on the fritz
They lost four straight games. After
the second game the team re-or-
ganized and Captain Cheape. a
veteran of two attempts TO tear down
the hulwarks protecting the cup, was
persuaded 10 Join the team
Choape was shy about casting his
! fortunes with MimbOrne's team
Buckmaster was approached, but also
refused. Il lookei hopeless unit
Cheape gave in and accepted the I'm.
yitatlOn 20 make the trip. Before thi.
came about. however. Lord Vim
borne had given up the ghost so fai
al selecting "a team was concerne,
and passed the buck TO the Hurting
ham Committee They were on tn,
verge of Withdrawing the challenge
but finally decided g. stick 10 the jol
that had been mapped out. and toda,
! they're here.
There was enough fussing an
. stcwing over the team IN England &
( satisfy the fussiest or stewiest whe
g comes 10 specializing in that sor
of thing Lord Wimborne wa
, charged with picking only his friend
, 10 play on his team, and q wa
, I broadly suggested chat his Lordship
! . friends might be- good army officer
but could not play polo for sou
apples.
That Is the SORT or racket N
/ British team had ringing In its eal
when Il landed today Possibly Il
not the strongest team England coul
have produced. but emembering n
wen known habits Of history. this
fine year for Uncle Sam 10 don h
riding breeches. hop aboard a pom
grab a mallet and get ready to rio
like - lcut Ou- by censOr).
DOLLAR AND DONATIOE DAY.