Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
MAI. BARRETT
IS CAP TAIN Of
POLO INVADERS
Leader Of Quidnuncs, Champions
of British Islands, Selected to
Direct English Team,
BY James S. Mitchell.
Champion Weight Thrower.

Worlds Champion Weight ThroWer.
rAJOR F. w. BARRETT, of the
M ouidnuncs and the Fifteenth
Hussars. will lead the Eng
fish International polo team in its
next attempt to lift the Westchester
Polo Cup at Meadow Brook next
June.
AS taotician. accurate hitter and
knacky horseman, Major Barrett eX
GELS anything seen on an English polo
field in the last generation. In fact,
he was the sensation of the last Eng
fish polo season, in the course of
which he annexed the Open Champion
Cup, the Coronation Cup. the Inter
Regimental Cup, the Ranelagh Open
Cup and the Patriotic Cup. the last
named being for the international be-
tween England and Ireland.
Major Barrett who is an Irishman,
played for his native country, and 1t
was mainly through his great work
that the Green Isle won the deciding
match by goals to 4. The Handicap
Cup, presented by Harry Payne
Whitney, was also won by the team
captained by Major Barrett and it
scored over the Old Etonians along
with allowing them a handicap of
three goals
When the Englishmen came after
the cup in 1911. Major Barrett was
with them, but he did not even hit a
ball. for all the time the Britishers
We're practiclng he suffered from dys-
EMERY. Whether or not he was in
tended to be used was not known. but
he returned home without showing
what he could do.
Practice in India.
Soon after he landed back, the FIJI
teenth Hussars was ordered to India,
and while there Barrett had all sorts
OF practice and he awaited himself of
the fastest matches at Umballa and
Meerut
When compared with members Of
the American team Major Barrett
might be rated as belonging to the
small grade, but his want of size Is
more than counterbalanced by his
ability to handle his mount and to
WELD the polo stick. He is elusive as
an eel.
The English experts have 1t that
the advent of Major Barrett means
| that this years visiting team will be
/ % per cent stronger than the one
| which tried last year. and that the
w tup Is Loi u hAiP
across the pond this summer.
With Harry Payne Whitney out OF
| the big Four" the calculation of the
| Saxons Is that the combination is
weakened TO an extent, for they think
| he made the best kind of a leader.
| In the second match last year the
. EnRlishmen held their own and lost
only on a foul Then how, they ask,
are the Americans with a weaker
team going to figure with an English
team much stranger than the one OF
last year?
The Britishers also say that they
learned a lot the last trip which is
going to be OF use to them next June.
In the first period Of the first match
last year the English were rushed off
their feet, but they believe this will
not occur again.
Show Perfect Team Play.
The combination which did such
wonderful work for the Quidnuncs
was composed Of the Duke OF Pene-
randa, Captain III. Tompklnson, Cap
tain F.. w. Palmes and Major Bar
rett. With the exception Of the Duke,
all three were in India together as
members Of the Fifteenth Hussars,
They knew each others play like
clockwork so when the Hussars land
ed back last spring they were In line
and we'll trained for the best of the
big matches.
The most notable victory OF the
Quidnuncs was in the Open Cham
pion Cup. which carries with it the
championship OF the British Isles. All
the best teams" on the other side of
the pond opposed them. There were
| the Old Cantaos, led by Walter S.
BuCkmaster and helped out by F. NJ.
Freake; the Pilgrims, with Captain
Vivian n. Lockett as back, and the
Woodpeckers, with Lord Dalmeny,
Captain Hardness Lloyd, Captain Fl,
Wilson and the Earl OF Rocksavage,