The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
POLOISTS' COMMENT.

FOL" Ponie, Of Eastern poIoist' left tins week
for the tournaments IN the Pacific Coas. Add
iiunal mounts will follow within two weeks.
Acting m conjunction with the National Polo
A--o,iltiQn. phts have about bepn completed bv
the PIciti" Coast advisory committee for what in
all Likelihood will n tho greatest gathering II polo
mon ever seen this county.
Commencing January ., the frr If the poo
Tournaments will be held at tho NIiduirk Country
Club Of California and here the ousning matches
Will 10 held With PLAYERS coming from almost every
iCa Canada. and far of Hawaii which II sending
team whose PLAYERS arc among somc Of the hE--
ct hsndIcaUTed Tolosts nf the National Polo Aso-
cIatlOn- With a string Cf hlgh-Class California
bred polo ponies some Of which were loaned to
tho American players last summer when they
CTO-s.d malletS for the International Cup with the
Tirk " EnglAnds players the Hampstead Plains.
the Hawaiians' brilliant PLAYING indicates that the
representatives from the old established clubs Of
the Eas'. about Meadow Brook Philadelphia and
NsTaEsnsett Pier. will have difficulty in retaining
their laurelS
The Santa Barbara and Passadena Polo Clubs
arc rPCUTrtTuctinS and repairing their fields. and
At san Mateo. where the universal polo tourna-
ments arc tn he held in connection with the Pan
ana Pacific Fair work Is nearing completion
Within the past Two years a marked interest
IN polo has developed at points west Of Kansas
City and st. Louis and playeB and their mounts
are fast rounding into form \ number Of new
players, among whom there is material for future
international players have already doomed up and
will play in the Coast tournaments. In the ship
ment Of ponies from the East this week there
arc twenty Of the string belonging TO the members
Of the Coppsrtown team-MessTs +. S. Won stans.
G. Pe1y Beadleston. Charles Cary Rumsey, and
Malcolm Stevenson. who in the past have had such
brilliant career, winning in 1913 not only the open
but senior championship Of the United States
Roth Mr.. Stevenson and Mr.. Rumsey were
sidcred likely timber for the last international
match with EnEland.
Mr.. J. Watson Webb who for some SEASONS has
been one Of the star plAyes the Great Neck,
Tr,~ n,
taking with him the pick Of his stable. Mr.. Webb.
who is probably the most brilliant left hand player
in this country, viii play in the universal tourna-
ments on team with Carleton Burke, F. Nc
LOughlin and II. Drury
Mr.. G. NJ. HecksheT s also arranging to ship a
big string Uf polo ponies to the Coas. Arnnge
ments have not yet been completed for the team
which Mfr. HecksheT viii play.
A number Of leading players who in the PIX
have been prominent in the Tournaments held
Long Island and at Nauagansett Pier and the
country clubs at Boston and Philadelphia. will
take part in many Of the Pacific Coast tourna-
meuts and those preceding the regular events which
will be PLAYED at San Msteo. CorunadO Riverside
and other points on the Coat.
The opening Of stock exchanges throughout the
county has added much inteFest to the coming
polo to<rnamets a. the incomes Of many Of the
players are derived from their connection with
exchanges and banking firms. Players their way
to the Cnast will stop OF at various points and
purchase mounts not only for use on the Coast,
bat later IN the spring and summeF for use at
the Meadow Brook. RochaWay Hunt clubs, Phil
sdelphia hunting and polo oenteTs, Newport, Mar
rGgansett Pier and other Eastern polo clubs.
J. CheeTeF C0~iin. the vice chairman Of the
Pacific Coast advisory committee has arranged to
have shipped to California. some time before the
commencement " the PanAma-Paciac tournaments
sufficient ponies to mount all the visiting poloists
who do not ship their own mounts. These ponies
are among some Of the best that have been gath-
ered up in the Southwest
United states army officers likely to take
an important psrt in the tournaments The light
cavalry mounts which about the size and weight
Of regulation polo ponies win Be used. While the
government has been bacl<ard IN ssnctionfng the
uss u the ponies thu sTeat benahts that win be
derived win Be- Of ten-fold beneat to the oHlcezs
and assist in placing them on an esen footing
with the Earioas British army teams mnch Of
polo touEnAmcnts