Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-08
HAWAII POLO
TEAM GOING TO
MEADOW BROOK?
New York World Says Local
Team and Argentine Four
Viii Meet Americas Best

That the Hawaiian polo team win
probably take part in a series OF
games at Meadow Brook. Long Island.
this summer. is the gist OF a story re-
Gently published in the New York
World. According to that paper, both
Hawaii and the Argentine are to send
teams to the Atlantic coast TO COM
pete In Pan-American tournament.
which win be second In Importance
only to the International games.
Ii the local stick swingers were
carrying out their original plan Of
campaign in California this year. the
eastern trip would be a possibility. but
as the exposition tournament has been
passed, there is no chance Of such an
extended polo pilgrimage es Is sug-
gested by the Meadow Brook plan.
However, such trip might be
possibility for other years, and the
fact that Hawaii has been asked to
send team East is proof positive
that the class OF polo played here Is
now generally recognized by experts
on the mainland.
The World sayss
'.In all likelihood there win be an
international polo match on the Mea-
dow Brook grounds this summer. The
movement to that effect Is now under
consideration by members OF that
club. 1t Is proposed to have series
of match games between the tears
representing the Argentine Republic
and America. AS side light the Ha-
waiian team may play set Of games
with the Meadow Brook Club team.
These teams have been asked to play
here this summer.
This series win be known as the
Pan-American championship. II Is
being fostered by prominent pol0ists
on Long Island In order to keep polo
of International caliber in the public
eye The prominent local poloists be-
hind the movement are Joshua Crane.
lott, Cowdin, Louis Stoddard, H. P,
| Whitney, Z. Waterbury. J. a. Water.
bury, Malcolm Stevenson, Bevereux
Miiburn and M. G. Phipps. Il Is pro
posed to give q trophy Tor competitioh
which VIII be perpetual challenge
cup between poloists Of South and
North America.
with series or polo matches this
year between teams representing AM
erica and England out Of the question,
the idea suggested itself to the polo
lists that set of games between South
American poloists and teams repre-
Isenting the United States would pre-
vent the .galloping game from being
| lost to the public. The series for the
Meadow Brook Club, which was 50
well fought out between America and
England, had served to make polo
popular and had caused an infusion
Of new blood by many new men TAX
ing up the game throughout the Unit
ed States.
"The Argentine team and the Ha-
waiian four win take part in the polo
games which will be. played at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition In San
Francisco. After these teams finish
the tournament in the exposition
games it is proposed to have them
come East and play at Meadow
Brook.
THE Argentine is one OF the best
teams Of poloists in the world Polo
has been in favor In the Argentine
Republic for number Of years, and
as the Argentines are natural born
| horsemen, they have managed to mas
ter all the intricacies Of the game. In
previous years members Of the team
have played In England against the
Cantabs," and played so we'll that the
English polo experts bestowed high
praise on their work. The Hawaiian
players are not such experts as the
\ Argentines, but @the Islanders" as
they are called. have many fast ponies
and are worthy opponents for any po-
Ioists
The Argentines will bring to the
United States number of very fast
ponies, the progeny Of thoroughbreds
imported to South America. II Is said
that these ponies compare in the mat
ter of fleetness of foot and cleyerness
with the ponies that carried the Am
erican and the English players last
| year
eThe polo championships for the
United States win be played in Rhode
island this year. The form that the
American players display during the
championships will have bearing on
the makeup of the American four, II
Fit is necessary to select team next
year to play for the Meadow Brook
trophy.