Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-13
INFORMATION POLO
DRAWS THRONCS To
MEADOWBROOK CLUB
Long Line of Automobiles Sends
Up Dust in Form Of Great
Yellow Fog
FIELD IN EXCELLENT SHAPE
American Ponies. Accustomed to
Midsummer Heat. Have
Slight Advantage
FIELD IN EXCELLENT SHAPE
BY Associated Press

Meadowbrook Club. Westbury, L.
J., June 13.-Society folk. sportsmen
and casual spectators, thousands all
told, crowded to the Meadowbrook
Club to-day for the opening games OF
the international polo series.
Six matches have heretofore been
played for the trophy, and each ma
tion has won three of them. Before
the game the Americans ruled favo-
rites at odds of ten to six.
The players of both teams spent n
forenoon of rest after quiet night.
Captain Cheape of the challengers
still suffered to some extent from his
injured nose and eye, struck last week
by a ball. On the American side in
terest centered on Rene La Montague,
the only new man on the team since
the breaking up of the big four by
the withdrawal of Harry Payne
Whitney. 1t is La Montague's first
international match and his friends
predicted that his aggressive playing
would prove a surprise.
Roads Congested
The day was clear and warm. A
slight breeze in the morning fiuttered
the British and American flags on the
stands. The exodus to the Meadow
brook Club began early. Long before
noon the roads leading to Westbury
and Hampstead were crowded with
automobiles of various types and vim
tage Hundreds of city taXicabs were
pressed into service. AS the long line
of cars approached the playing field
the roads became congested with mo-
tor cars and the dust stirred up by
thousands of runner shod wheels hung
over the Hampstead plains like a
heavy yellow fog.
Railroads Contribute
To this assembling host the rail-
roads contributed long trainloads of
spectators as fast as the trip from
the city to the field and return could
be made.
At the playing field those in charge
were at work early. The great stretch
of velvet turf was moved and wa
tered yesterday and heavy rollers
rumbled up and down the surface
throughout the morning. 1t was stated
that unless heavy shower deadened
the field before bell time at o'clock
it would be the fastest ever offered
for international polo play in this
country.
Ponies Are Ready
The ponies of both teams were
walked over from their regular quar-
ters to the paddocks early in order
~ dNOiu TIE meat VI the midday ana
were reported ready for the hard
struggle. The English players were
inclined to believe that the heat and
delay had taken the edge off several
of their best mounts; but this could
not be avoided. The American ponies
accustomed to American midsummer
heat, weathered the hot spell better
than the imported mounts. This, 1t
was said. gave the cup defenders a
slight advantage.
The lineup:
England-No. l, Captain H. A. Tom
kinson; No. 2, Captain L. st. G.,
cheape; No. 8. Major f. W. Barrett:
Back, Captain Vivian Lockett Sub
stitutes-Lord Wimborne, John A.
Trail.
American-No. !, Rene La Mon
tague; No. 2, j. NJ. Waterbury: No.
3, Devereue Milburn; Back, Lawrence
Waterbury. Subtitutes-C. c. Rum
sey, Malcolm Stevenson, H. C. Phipps
Referee-Louis Stoddard. Umpires
Joshua Crane, Boston, and Keith r.
Maskham, Cairo, Egypt. Goal UNI
pires, DR.. ii. A. Souther and Frank
Forester, for America, and Spencer
Fish and Frank S. Drake, for Eng
land. Official timer W. Struther
Jones.