The sun., 1919-08-26
POLO STARS READY
FOR TITULAR EVENT
National Tourney at Bala Next
Month Promises to Be q +
Record Breaker.

Judging from the preparations which
the Polo Association and the Meadow
Brook, Rookaway Hunting. Great Neck
and Cooperstown players are making for
the event, the national polo champ on
ships on the Philadelphia Country Cub
campus at Bala, from September 10 to
81, will Guido anything in that line In the
past. In other years 1t was customary
to hold the championships at Pc mt Ju-
dith, where the players did not take the
events seriously and only desultory polo
was developed.
With the abandonment Of the project
to purchase the grounds at Point Judith
came the determination to make the
championships mean something and to
rotate the titular tournament about the
country. This scheme has increased In
terest in the championships greatly. Ar
rangements for the championships are in
the hands of Lieut James c. Cooley,
manager Of polo at Meadow Brook. In
discussing the championships yesterday
Lieut. Cooley said:
at Is quite obvious that championship
games should be looked forward to as
the most important games of the year.
as the tennis or golf championships are
to the players OF those sports, but this
has not been the case with polo In the
The championship games have been held
at Narragansett Pier. and the teams that
competed for the championship did not
represent anything very clearly.
Club Rivalry De|Aloped.
Now q team has got to stand for a
club. and this feeling Of rivalry, upon
which public interest very largely de-
Ponds. exists this year as Il has never
existed before.
For years there has been intense
rivalry between Meadow Brook and
Rockaway. both located on Long Island
This year Rockaway comes into the field
with a great team, In which ]. Cheever
Cowdin brings one of the finest strings
OF polo ponies in the country. The Rock
away team has had a conspicuously sue
cessful year. Its most noteworthy vic.
tory was In the big match at Meadow
Brook August 2, when II gave that club
a sound beating.
Now Rockaway has its eyes on the
senior championship. and Intends 20 win
II IL 1t can be won by Individual skill and
first class ponies. Mr.. Cowdin's string
of ponies numbers about thirty four, and
In the lot are such noted performers as
Alfonso, a chestnut gelding imported
from England, and the extraordinary
chestnut imported pony Wonder, which
Earl w. Hopp ng will play and which
is about the fastest pony In polo to-day.
Mr.. Cowdin will play his <avorite Cali.
| fornia mare Palaire, the imported bay
mare Lady Buzz the brown mare Miles
and the brown gelding Major.
I'm addition to Wonder Mr. Hopping
will ride the bay pony Orphan Boy
which used to be in Frederic McLaugh-
Inns string. Malcolm Stevenson will
play Alfonso, the bay mare Carlo, the
bay gelding Mutt and his own pony Sill
yer Tail, an old international favorite
Some Great Mounts.
The Meadow Brook team will brine
| some remarkable ponies on the field
J.. K. Stoddard, who plays No. /, has
about the best string in America, He
| VIII play his famous mare Selma and
! the beautiful chestnut mare Auntie Ag
Selma was bred in California, but was
taken to England a1d was in the Duke
of Westminster's string swhen the Eng.
lish teams came here IN 1919. Auntit
Ag Is an English mare brought here In
1916. Mr.. Stoddard will also have the
clean bred mare Belle of All, a daugh.
ter Of Star Sheet A fourth wonderful
mare Is Forest Girl a recent addition &c
the string. which formerly belonged tC
A. S. Cochrane. Also in the company
OF these four Incompatible ladies Is the
imported black gelding Paddy.
4 81 Watson Webb, No 2 for Meadow
Brook, has the two beautiful mares
Guinness and Eve. both !mportations {,
this Country. Harry Payne Whitney a
No. 3, has The international mare Siren
as perfeet, q pony in her day as eve
played; the bay chestnuts. also famed II
international games the imported mare
GNrNW.r NANwIH As.1~
Royal Diamond. the champion pony o
America. which formerly belonged to tn,
Duke of Westminster, and the Texal
pony COmmoner.
At back for Meadow Brook Is tn,
great player, DeXereux Milbnrn. He hal
as his standby his old favorite, Tenby
which the noted English dealer, Mr.
Balding. says is the greatest polo pom,
that. has ever played the game.