New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-16
Good Turf an Incentive to
candidates for the Inter
national Team.
MANY PONIES TRIED
OUT BY THE PLAYERS
r Won Stade Makes His First
anpearance and Is Tried at
No. I on the Reds.

n, the best turf or the season the
,-s,,ss beat the Reds in the practice
We Of the international cup polo can
sas.,ss Yesterday on the private ground
81 : Phipps. at Westoury. by ga goals
70 81
,.n5sv the Whites being what is now
-.nsrallv termed the FIRST team and
=. Reds the second team except that
5 Won Stade succeeded Rumsey as
\, on the latter for the second half,
,,s,ead Of J. s. Phipps. II was the first
.oDearance OF the well known gentleman
,aepev who was jumped from handicap
o,4to s last year for his brilliant polo
rHh Cooperstown in an international
match trial game.
The eood going was an incentive Tor
,,s rlsyers 10 set a fast pace, and for
ne nrst time this year the thud OF the
hoofs was as incessant as the roar or
surf or beach.
The Whites had their heart in their
vork. and this led 10 some rough riding
en- that four fouls were marked against
,,,rn All were for crossing, Phipps In
.bs FIRST reriod against Rumsey. Steven
60, against l. Waterbury in the second.
J. NJ. Waterbury. tr.. against keene IN
.bs seventh and l.. Waterbury on Steven
son in the eighth.
Il was Il red letter day for Milburn, as
\. did not make a foul nor break stick
which so often snaps like pipe stem
under his vigorous swings. once In the
srb period, when the play was toward
the pony tents near where n. 2. whitney
vas standing. Mnburn was on the ball
ard Stevenson tried TO ride him of. but
bvr7ping match was the only result.
q call foul" cried out Stevenson. The
referee was silent, and as the rush OF
ponies and players swirled past him Mr.
Whitney called out: You were quite
right, Dew"
There was a great roundup OF POLO
ponies. Larry Fitzpatrick had forty
six in the Whitney tent, and there were
some thirty more about owned by the
plsyers or loaned TO he tried out H. =
rhipps tried three-Big Jim, bay
Cuckoo. a chestnut, sent from California
BY ]. J. Tobin. and Lem Jacobs's Texan
pony. Blue Bird. a dark gray that much
resembles Lizette. What do you call
that pony. Jacobs asked J. 5. Phipps.
vho Was on the side lines. When he heard
the name he added: THAT bird means
tappinese and the pony runs like II.
NJ. Waterbury, ir., used the hashily
acting Hawaiian pony Garry the News IN
Two periods: he also had out VISTA OF
Walter pupee's string, while Milburn used
Ham Tree and Keene Straight Flusn' TWO
etsstnuts OF the California lot.
The gray Pretty Boy. bought from the
Duke Of Westminster string after last
years match by the Cleveland Polo Cluo'
has been sent on, and Keene used the
gelding in two periods
Won Stade had two bay ponies OF ms
ogn. which were well up to their tasks
We shot a goal in the first period from
pass by Stevenson and played fine game
throughout.
The lineup and summary follow
WHITES Gl0. REDS on.
] " Waterbury. jr. s Won 1,S S5sde
2. MlbuTn. X IA M0i't $50
L Waterbury. foXhan e cc,f>'eIson
lndiyidcal soals--Phipps. 90 J.; NJ. W. Ma'eT-
blrv. sr o. Milbum ~, Rumsey w. l.
Watsrbury La Montague. stevenson N.n
S,s1e Penaltles-Fous against PhPps. >. ~
Taierbury jr. l. Waterbury and stevenson
Rsferee-George Miller. .-.
Whites ..-.~"........".? . 2 . Z q %
Reds .......................I
Miller threw in the ball when it went
out Of bounds from outside the boards .
and was far more energetic than at Great
Neck on Monday. on his first American
appearance. C.. j. Beadleston was
looker-on. and with the other three OF the
cbampion Cooperstown team, Won Stade' .
Rumsey ana Stevenson, available prop
ability OF the near future is meeting OF
the four with Whitney's first team.
game VIII he al Phipps field on sunday /