The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14
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the flower garden OF a prize winning
gardener
or course the polo players. the old
sters as well as the youngsters who
Will some day defend the cup or go
after Il. were in riding costume, usually
very shiny russell riding boots, very
volum.nous white riding breeches.
dark coat and a Panama hat. They
came early. very carly, and met at the
clubhouse. where they talked OF the day
and the game and Cd games or games
to come. Those men know ponies by
their first names as well as players and
they speak OF them and to IA. IN famll-
larry.
You could rear the names OF Keene,
Cowden, Agass.z, Whitney. Hitchcock.
Gould Meadow Brook. Point Judith. Mar
ragansett, birmingham. Ranuiagh-ail
players and PAGES "Trip from tongues
by the hour ut the clubhouse. You
could hear tn same thing in the stands.
Over on the west stand. where the sun
at your back gave yol sotia. prel ed,nce
over those IN stands Whtr, you were
supposed TO have the sun in your face,
they spoke knowingly and .earncdly.
over in the west stand they would
cal II, of course. a chukker instead OF q
period. and cal them ponies Instead OF
horses and speak eXperlly of riding of.
But they did not enjoy II any better
than the cas-: stand. which called them
horses, innings and oats. One young
woman announcing tina; she understood
there were wlCkets got a little laugh.
but npbCdy In the cast stand looked
panied. She learned soon and by the
time that Monte Waterbury missed a
goal by about n scant inch she yelled
''Oh, Monty" just as sorrowfully as the
regular dyed in the wool polo con-
tingent in the middle of the private
stand on the clubhouse.
SO far as the field was concerned
there was little TO see until after
O'clock but there We're other diversions.
Some one said the players were practis-
Ing in the field to the north OF the main
field. Every neck craned to zee them
through stands and houses and trees.
They did not do il OF course. but they
passed the wprt atng as 1t came to
them that Mifhufn Was out hitting the
ball some awful hard ones or that Capt.
Cheape was doing very we'll despite the
fact that his right eye had as many
black rings as Saturn.
They admired and wond red at the
horsy looking gentlemen who occasion
ally wandered out from the clubhouse
to the big field. That Ia quito n oere-
mony. Three or four every now and
then must walk out on the field Just as
II thGre We're not 10000 or more pairs
OF eyes looking them over with field
glasses. They must go out to certain
spot-any spot will do-an1 then they
must examine carefully a cod of turf,
shaking their heads, Af.er that they
must go back to the clubhouse and the
stands all guess who It Is.
Belmont Grects Lord wimbornc.
They guessed pretty well yesterday,
and when a few minutes b fore O'Clock
one gentleman In white riding clothes
shook hands with a man in everyday
clothes they all knew that Il was August
Baimont m citing Lord W.mborne, the
man who was bring n; the t am over
as sacrifice. Then they saw that more
men came up; that Hlrry Payus Whit
ney stood over near the ponies, and
lastly they had gim. Ise OF me of the
ponies.
In this matter OF ponies, II In nothing
else, the polo expert and the outsider
are absolutely one. The newspapers
had told the outsiders of the wonder
fully trained animals In both stab ,s,
with their Almost human intelligence
They Cou d talk about oh Coaovcr. Mil
burns roam mare; Sprlte. the gray
which once be Gagged to the Duke of
Westminster; Tenby, Jacob and Carry
the News of the American string with
perfect confidence.
Came l o'clock. when the parade was
" begin, but there was no parade. A
select band of Caiabrians went out and
stamped down tn, turf little tighter,
Just to show they were on the h., and
over In the praciae field they were still
snllop!ng and knocking the bills about
More men came out of tn, clubhouse
ana went in again, and about every
pody IN New York city and enyirons