New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
POINT JUDITH
READY FOR BIG
SEASON OF POLO
Stars of Game To Be Seen
in Action in Events Be-
ginning July y.
WHITNEY TO HEAD
MEADOW BROOK TEAM
Entries Measure Up with Best
Ever Made for Long List of
Famous Prizes.

Three fields are in readiness for the
beginning this week of the Polo Asso-
citation championship tournament,
which opens at the Point Judith Polo
Cub, Narragansett Pier, on July %. 1t
is the finest group Of polo fields in the
country, and by the expenditure OF
some $4,000 of the profits of the inter
rational polo cup matches the turf has
been made ideal, the club quarters
comfortable and a free stand built for
ron members of clubs who wish TO see
the games Ii is the national ground
of the Polo Association and the Ameri-
can birmingham.
Harry p. Whitney, who led the
American team that regained the inter
national cup, and who has never been
beaten on team when playing IN a
match for it, will captain the Meadow
Brook team at the Pier. The tourna-
ment will continue until August Ia.
Whitney has been as prominent on
senior championship teams as in inter
national polo. The event is for the
gold cup presented by William Waldorf
Astor through the Tuxedo Club, and
was first played for at Prospect Park,
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keene had been knocked out in a col
lision when Rockaway had the advan-
tage. and the team had to finish with
only three men.
Rockaway won in 1896, and Meadow
Brook for the initial time in 1897,
with Whitney as back. lie has been
on nearly every Meadow Brook cham
pionship team since. Besides, in 1903
Whitney was on the Country Club of
Westchester team that won the senior,
with John +. Cowdin and Monte and
Larry Waterbury.
The tally of the senior by clubs is:
Meadow Brook, s, including the victory
of the Meadow Brook Magpies last
year; Country Club of Westchester, 2;
Myopia. 2; Lakewood, 2, and singles
for Dedham, Rockaway and Coopers-
town, which won all three titles in 1913.
The entries follow, but the drawings
will not be announced until later. In
the junior championship Bryn Mawr,
Point Judith, Meadow Brook Freeboot-
ers and Aiken Redbirds -Bryn Mawr
holds the title. Meadow Brook, for
which the players will be Hal C.
Phipps, j. NJ. Waterbury, jr, II. ?.
Whitney and l.. Waterbury, will meet
Bryn Mawr and Great Neck in the
senior clash, while for the open the
entries are Meadow Brook and Great
Neck.
In the handicap fixtures Bryn Mawr
will meet CooperstOwn for the Army
aud Navy cups; the Aiken Redbrds,
Camden. S. c., GrasshOppers, Point Ju-
dith and Chagrin Valley Club, of Ohio.
are entered for the Randolph cups, and
the nominations for the Rathborne Me-
81 kn Il
Bryn Mawr, Aiken Redbirds, Aiken
Tigers. Meadow Brook Magpies, Cam
den Grasshoppers, Point Judith. Phila-
delphia Country Club and Cooperstown
teams. The Hotel Gladstone cups have
not yet closed.
The donors for the junior and open
championship trophies are S. d. War
rem and Joseph b. Thomas. The Polo
Association adds individual cups TO be
won outright TO each championship en-
blem, which are perpetual and have the
names of the winners inscribed on
them each year.
Varied conditions as 10 the handicaps
will make interesting the minor events
CT the tournament. The Army and
Navy Cups are presented by Mrs. j. ?.
Fell; the Randolph cups by P. S. P.
Randolph the Rathborne memorial by
Mrs. J. c. Rath borne; the Atlantic cups
by William A. Hazard. and the Hotel
Gladstone gives its set of cups yearly.
The winners of the circuit cups given
as sectional cham oionships by the Polo
Association will after this season be
obliged to enter for the national cham
pionship in which they class. The Pa
cific Coast circuit cup for 1915 has been
won at Riverside, Cal, by a Chicago
team; the Southern circuit cup has
been won at Aiken by the Aiken Tigers,
and the Western circuit cup for the
year was won on Wednesday at On
wentsia by Kansas City.
The Mid-Western circuit cup is TO be
played for the first time at the Thou
sand Island Polo Club, Alexandria Bay,
y. Y, beginning August 16. There is
also an Army circuit cup, last played
for two wears ago when the Fort Riley
team won.
All details Of the tournament and OF
the game in America are in charge OF
the Polo Association committee, which
consists Ct the chairman and the sec
retarv-trcaSurer of the organization,
II. L. Herbert and William A. Hazard
and seven associates. August Belmont,
Harry F. Whitney; the Bostonlans,
Joshua Crane and Dudley =. Rogers;
John {. Groome and w. Plunkett Stew
art, of Philadelphia, and Alexander 1.
Primm, jr., Of st. Louis.
This week the best imported and
bomebred polo mounts in the country
will be rounded up on the Point Jul
Gith field and many of the men to ride
them ere ranked among the best polo
lists in the world Polo will be the
prince of recreations at the pier for
-, MIN, & 90 vepkS