New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-10
POLO PONIES MAY
Be SMALL HORSES
Action Taken to Meet
Needs of Army-Tour-
nament Dates.

The most important feature of the
annual meeting of the Polo Association
at the Racquet and Tennis Club last
night was the action Of the executive
committee in passing a resolution rails
ing the standard of polo ponies from
14.2 hands to 10 or l5.1, and substitut-
ing the word mounts" for ponies in
all future pamphlets or circulars print
ed by the association.
This means that the efficiency Of the
regular army light cavalry will be
greatly increased, and that in future
the game Of polo will become more
popular among army officers.
4 rider" TO last years army appro-
priation bill prohibited the buying Of
horses Of the polo type l4.2 hands by
the government for service use. The
action of the polo association circum-
vents this rider" and permits the Of
iicors 10 continue in the game.
Captain Gordon Johnston, OF the
regular army, who was present at the
meeting, was strongly in favor OF polo
for the cavalry officers as a part of
their military education.
The results of the present war in
Europe have shown the great value Of
the light cavalry in action, and by the
action of the Polo Associations COM
mittee, the regular army mounts will
receive the training that will stand
them in good stead in case they should
take the field in actual warfare.
After the meeting of the executive
committee the election OF officers was
held, all the present incumbents being
reelected, with the exception of
Charles Wheeler, who resigned from
the executive committee and was sue
ceeded by W. Plunkett Stewart, Of
Philadelphia.
The officers and members Of the ex-
ecutive committee for 1915 follow:
Chairman, H. L. Herbert; secretary
treasurer. W. A. Hazard; executive
committee, August Belmont, John c.
Groome, H. ?. Whitney. Joshua Crane,
Alexander T. Primm, jr.; Dudley 7.
Rogers and " Plunkett Stewart.
The tournament dates for were
announced as follows:
Fet-lary ls TO 23. Pasadena Polo Club. February
IS 20 March 49, Coronado Country Club:
Marc. 20 o. AIKEN Polo club. March u 10 =.
camden Polo Club: March Is 10 May !. Panama
Ts1ds Ilposit.on polo tournament, March ls 70
ADri g. San Aia.eo POLO CiuO March u 10 April
-. Lakewood Polo Club.
Ay.l a 20 o. Devon Poo Club.
Alay 10 TO -. Piping Rock club: May q 10
June 80. Bryn MaWr Polo club May y 10 June
H. Fhlsde pima Country Club, May 81 to June T.
jim. IA 10 i9. Boise Polo Club. June Il % TO-
GurEaWay Hunting Club. June Il TO 70 Meade"
Brook Club. June 10 10 %. Kansas City Country
club. June Il 70 g. SmlthiOHn Polo CLUB; June
70 % Iu.y l.. Myopia Hunt and Dedham Country
polo clubs: june - 10 july IS. lshp Polo Club, June
IS 10 July 10. kJghaWa} hunting Gun. 80
JuEy TO TO- Meadow Brook club; July 10 to
Ag.L- IS senior. junior and open champ OnshipS ..
July % 90 IS " ,tCbs,tcr Polo cub.
Au.u-t e.. 90 - itumsou Country club; August
% % -. Denver Country CUP; Aususl - TO sep
TENDER a. Thousand Islands Polo tiuo.
September ! 70 .. Cheyenne Mountain Country
Club. september 10 IL, Squadron A; September
IL 10 IS spokane Polo Club. september 10 20 lh
Whlppany River cub. September IL 70 10. Bunalo
Country club. September 20 10 =. EsseI county
Country Polo Club.
Following the dinner at the Racquet
and Tennis Club, the members were
shown moving pictures of the interna-
tional polo matches of 1914, in which
the British team took back the polo
cup, and also pictures taken by the
Barnes Kearton expedition on thir-
teen months trip through Central At
RIGA. Fourteen hundred miles Of the
expedition followed the trail laid down
by Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer:
James Barnes, one of the members of
the journey, described the hardships OF
the trip.