New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Annual Horse
Show to Have
Military Tone
Entry List Includes Many
Army Riders; 81, 500 Cup
Offered by Bowma an

There will be military tone to the
thirty National Horse Show, which
opens tomorrow morning in Madison
Square Garden, and will cont nue. until
Saturday night, which will add
brilliant note to many of the competi-
tIons, especially those for chargers and
jumpers in which officers in uniform
are requj~-I to ride. In the entry list
OF ] 1874, record since before the war.
there are 339 in the mil tary classes.
VIII lie many officers have also made
entries in open classes.
Artillery teams are 10 hold the tan
bark for the first time and divide the
plaudits with the caeaIrymen. The
classes vii make the largest render
vou5 of army horsemen ever assembled
IN America for special contests. Gen
eral Persling has four horses entered
in sixteen classes, but by a mistake
his name Will not appear in the cata-
logue.
Captain J. B. Querkherner, General
Pershings aid, who Will ride the
horses, entered them from the head
quarters stables, general OF the armies.
Washington, and the notification to
enter the horses in the generals name
was not received until after the cats-
logue had been printed
Major Stanley Koch, of the War De-
partment. Will ride, among other en-
tries, the graded thorough bred, Mile.
Denise, on which he won the recent
endurance test race in Vermont.
Others in this national muster of
army and militia horsemen will be
Brigadier General Dw ght E. Aultman,
Lieutenant Colonel Eben Swift, ana
Captain Lincoln Martin. from Camp
Dix, n. j.; Major Phillip ". Booker,
Major A. l.. ?. Sands, Major William
Rucker, Major Fred {. v allace and
Major Ira T. Wych. from Camp Knox.
Ky; Major !. 5. Martin and Major
James c. f. Schwerh, from Port Tot
ten, y. y; Lieutenant- Colonel Cootes.
Major G. s. Patton jr.. Major 5. T.
Koch, and Major c. George, from Fort
Nyer, Va, with teams OF afficers from
Camp Pike, Ark, and United States
Military Academy, Detachment o.
tayaify, West POINT.
One OF the prizes for thc officers
and troopers mounts over the jumps j.
a 1900 cup. given for the first TINA
by John McE. Bowman. one Of the
richest prizes he military section ma
ever had, yet the climax OF interest
viii probably be found in the six-norse
artillery Gun teams. when viii circle
the arel,a at full callop and 20 through
All the mlnulae OF 0eaNN fi-h driving
That so enthused the spectators AZ .he
morse SHOWS he'd in Germany by tn
American army &C occupation.
Another new military feature VIII Dc
Of horse-drawD macnine gun car,
teams; feet o. them will be shown
as they 60 into action. and Aive an
exhibition Of army WORK new TO New
ork oalookers. These cNick, dragon
fly dartlnC, Light gan carts and taeir
eQUipmert VIII snare the ring d each
session Win the massive, ten-ton teams
OF Ciydesda.e draft horses. altched IL
alignments O. SIX to ne4vy wagons anu
sent through cvoiutions by the most
expert drivers OF big horses IN tn
world.
An innovation this year viii be al
indoor polo tournament, with team
OF three players edcn entered from siH
clubs Inere Will be a game eacn
night at 9 .. m. which will bring the
final to Saturday night. The indivldual
players vail include many OF the pes.
poiolsts in me country, some of whom
are being talhed of az cligibles for
the American team that VIII try to
take the International Polo Challenge
Cup at birmingham. London, next
June, which was reeainet by the Brit
ish team at ,ieadow Brook in 1914.