Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-08
POLOISTS PLAY
rough GAME IN
RECENT TOURNEY
Bitter Feeling Exists Between
Players; Coronado Matches
Fiqht Center This Week

Local followers OF polo will be much
interested in the matches which will
be played this week at Coronado. A
sportsman who recently arrived in
Honolulu says that there will be some
rough polo when the Cooperstown
team meets the best in the west.
San Mateo will have good team
this year. according to the polo en-
thusiast, and with Drury. Keene, Tevis
and Driscoll should make good show
ing against the best from the eastern
shores. Polo enthusiasts who know OF
these players will watch with interest
the results of the matches. There Is
storm brewing and, according TO the
recent arrival, the umpire will be kept
busy when the clash comes.
Drury Storm Center
Hugh Drury, the veteran who be-
came famous on the mainland as a
member of the Midwick team and who
will be member of the most formid-
able four San Francisco ever mar
shaled, is the storm center.
Tense feeling has grown up between
himself and Cooperstown four. II
seems to be case of jealousy OF the
old and young.
Malcolm Stevenson, the internation-
al back and captain of the Coopers-
town team, rated in the national list
as eight goals, made his first hating
step at polo as member or a team OF
which Drury was the captain and
coach Now Stevenson Is rated higher
in the list than his former mentor.
Strangely enough, this seems TO have
provoked bitter rivalry between the
men. Perry Beadleston, now trespass-
ing on the threshold of international
ranking, was also at one time a raw
recruit under Drury. he. too, seems
to have an uncanny antipathy to the
famous veteran.
; Rough Play
In recent game at Coronado vio-
lent play eliminated in Pat Rumsey,
so ii is alleged, riding at right angles
smash into Drury and spilling that
player and his mount.
While he lay prone on the ground.
Drury said what he thought Of Rum
sey SO those in the grandstand could
hear, and the Coopertown man was
only prevented from reducing the dis.
cussion to blows by the united efforts
OF the rest of the team.
The Riverside tournament, which
has just been concluded, was rem
dered a financial failure by the abb
senee of the Coronado team. 1t is an
open secret that they stayed away
because Of the unhappy relations be-
tween the various players.
The rivalry and jealousy between
Cooperstown, champion of the East.
and Hugh Drury will be all the more
intense from the fact that the latter
will be a member of the most power
full team that has ever worn San
Mateo colors.
West Has Stars
Here are the men who will repre-
sent the West in the coming games: !
Hugh Drury, rated at seven goals;
Foxhall Keene, rated at nine goals
and universally regarded as one of the
greatest players the game has pro-
duced; Willie Teyis, rated at three
goals, and worth much more, as he
has recently proved in the best COM
pany, and Tom Driscoll, the famous
southpaw goal shot. Driscoll is con-
ceded fiye-goal ranking in the book
of words" But those who saw him
with international opponents at the
Exposition realize that this ranking
is joke.
At the Exposition, Cooperstown beat
San Mateo by a goal, and the Eastern
ers were without Perry Beadleston.
one of the essential 'cogs'' OF their
machine. But San Mateo this time
will be about twice as formidable as
they were in 1915. The Cooperstown
team will be mounted on the famous
| international string OF horses OF
Maurice Heckoler. the most valuable
collection OF polo ponies in the game.
One out Of four Australians has