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.
Worlds Champion Weight Thrower

Worlds Champion weight InroWer'
TAJOR F.. W. BARRETT, of the
NI ouidnuncs and the Fifteenth
Hussars, will lead the Eng
lish international polo team in it's
next attempt to lift the Westminster
Polo Cup at Meadow Brook next
June.
As a tactician, accurate hitter and
knacky horseman, Major Barrett ex-
cells anything seen on an English polo
fell in the last generation In fact,
he was the sensation of the last Eng
lish 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
scored over the Old Etonians along
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
were practicing 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
Westchester Cup Is bound for a trip
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
Englishmen held their own and lost
only on foul. Then how, they ask,
are the Americans with weaker
team going to figure with an English
team much stranger than the one OF
last year?
The Britishers also say that they
learned q 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 H Tompkinson, Cap
tain e. 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 well 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 III
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 bv +. NJ
F'reake: the Pilgrims, with Captain
Vivian \. Lockett as back, and the
Woodpeckers, with Lord Dalmeny,
Captain Hardness Lloyd, Captain Fl.
Wilson and the Earl of Rocksavage.