Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
AMERICAN TEAM GIVES
NO BIG YELPS OF Joy
English Polo Players Arrive In the
United States Today and Begin
Practiclng- at Meadowbrook.
BRITISH TEAM IS WEAK
SAY ovER-sEA CABLES
Lord wimborne Picked His Team From
the Army and Took 1t To Spain for
Spring Training
By Hal Sheridan.

New York. May 30.--With condi-
lions in England having fairly revealed
d cabinet crisis while old j. Bull was
trying to get together real polo team
60 cda!ledgc for the international cup
next month and the honorable ehallch'
GERS being hammered from pillar to
most by Walter Bucltmaster's "scrlb =
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 preliminary
fet-tos and YOU near all about him
steguering rapidly toward the grave,
he suddenly comes too with yelp anr
delivers some terrible blows for ca
daNer
Everything But Bloodshed,
Everything except revolution and
blcodshed marked the preliminaries for
the polo invasion over in England The
team arrived here today having sailed
on the 2Srd, and viii Immediately start
practice ON the Meadowbrook field.
Their ponies have been here for a week
and having been unlimbcrcd by the 20
grooms who accompanied them on the
steamship Minneapolis are in good
shape for the work ahead.
The British team today may be weak
rs cables from the other side indicated
before they sailed, but they passed
through much the same muss eXper.
enced by the American ''Big Four OF
last year, which wiped up large see
tiou OF sod aud earth with the chal
longing team, watch was picked to beat
them hands down.
History Repeats Itself.
History has habit of repeating
itsef, some one once idly remarked
az he bet his stack on full hous
TO find that the other man hel,
''fours Having slipped something
over on the English last year with {
supposedly tottering team, may W
therefore expect the Britons to return
the compliment.
Jumping blithely back into last year
it may be recalled that but a saor
time before the big matches were I,
be played the governing powers de
citled the American team was not wha
it should be and started in to reo'
fani2e. Harry PAYNE Whitney tn
captain, stepped from the saddle an
l1oxhall Kcene took his place, Righ
nfterwnrd Keene and pony he wa
riding parted company rather uncer'
moniously, Keene charging the groun
head on His shoulder was fracture
mud there had to be another reorgani1i
ton. Whitney went back to the tea
aud what the two Waterbury De-
creux Milburn aud Whitney did
the challengers is history.
Don't Yelp With Joy.
While the American team has bee
practicing no great yelps OF Joy ha'
been coming from their camp, Tn,
are in good shape and ready for q
fray hut those Englishmen have ni
such stormy voyage up to this sta
Of the game that once they strike pea
and qniet they may begin 10 get in
action. Lord Wimborne, who Is finan
cling the polo invasion and funiShii
most Of the ponies, has found his 7
triote ideas sadly walloped from til
to time.
Picking his team from the army, I.o
Wimborne took men, ponies and all
Spain for "spring training. TIL
spring trained and then on alighti
on home soil again found the II
hnpham committee, the biz chief
ali things polo in England, did !
approve Of them. They We're sentenC
70 play four-headed by Waiter Blu
mastre just to see how bad they rea
we're.
II the string Of defeats handed
cballeneers stand for anything,
lordship's team lived up to an exn X,
tations as being on the fritz. II