New-York tribune., 1920-11-19
Army Mounts
! ] Show Mettle
/ At Horse Show
Major Lewis Brown Wins
! Overseas Cup With Geld
ing; Major Quitmeyer
: Captures Second Prize
Keen Saddle Competition
Little Fire Lady, Which Won
4 Pony Class, Gets in Tan
4 gle Over Age and Youth
By Harriette Underhill


y Uniforms are everywhere in the
lSfhrongs at tho Garden these days, and
iSthe crowds have assumed such pro-
lsportions that one feels quite justified
I'm referring to them as throngs. 1t is
y pleasing sight for the oldtimers who
y5ive in fear lest the horse shows are
,"going to the dogs"
= Two of the morning classes were
FOR polo mounts owned by officers of
the regular army or by the government,
and in the afternoon the overseas cup
was competed for.
Officers Horses Shown
y The officers horses were required to
go over eight jumps not to exceed
-four feet, and they also were judged
for manners, conformation and per-
zformance at a walk, trot and canter.
SThere were four prizes, aggregating
NEARLY 81 1000, presented by r. H. Will
Jams jr., Mrs. Bryce Wing, A. J. A.
Devereaux, Pierre Lorillard jr. and
sothers. Major Lewis Brown won the
cup with his own chestnut gelding, Tom
Nlelie. Besides the cup, the first prize
called for $500 in gold Major Quit
meyer took the second prize with J ohm
Bunny, a chestnut geiding from Head
quarters stable. Captain Dewitt was
third with Prince, from Fort Totten,
Sand fourth prize went to MAJOR Booken
with Princess.
= The competitions for officers polo
b. A,.tL
SsWilson, with Sweetheart, and Captain
Brown, with Countess II. In the light
sweight class Sweetmeat defeated Lud-
low mare which is the property of
I Major Wilson. Sweetmeat is from the
. Military Academy at West Point.
= One of the most interesting classes
: of the day called for the best trained
{ saddle horses. Louis K. Liggett Of
!: fered a stunning cup for this competi
tlon and it brought out some good
! ones There was Ivy Madison, with
Myopia; Isabella Wanamaker, with
i Cherry Stone, and Ida Fleitmann, with
I Imp. Abydos, but it took Arthur Hop
: kins, of Syracuse, to make the mare
1 70, and the mare was none other than
: Glennie Dean. AS matter Of fact,
/ it was J. c.. Cooke who made her go
= yesterday, but she was trained by Mr..
: Hopkins, who owns her, and she is a
. wonder. She can do everything ex-
. cept talk, and that probably wouldn't
: improve hel any.
/; Spectators Applaud Mare
(. The spectators went crazy over her
{ for aside from her accomplishments
O. she has most attractive personality
That handy brown gelding, Triggers,
from Cassils Farm, was second choice.
Cherrystone and Myopia were third
81 and fourth
1t was learned yesterday that Little
the pony class on Wednesday. was
rot eligible to compete. While the
conditions require that the entrants
= be at least four years old. Little Fire
Lady is orly two years old, baby in
fact, and she defeated the double
:. champion, never before beaten, cock
sure little chestnut mare, Chestnut
Blossom. 1t was a colossal achieve
mcnt whatever the circumstances.
telegram was sent last night by
the National Horse Show Associa tAns
to the Broadlawn Stables, saying
1t had been brought to the associatiSaeS'
& attention that Little Fire Lady was
less than four years old, and there
fore ineligible.
1t was said in the telegram that the
ribbons and prizes awarded the pony
. would be withdrawn and that the pony
not be allowed shown in any other
classes. The matter, it was said, will
be laid before the Association of Ma
tional Horse Shows.
~ Clew to Animals Age
Paddy O'Connell was the man taken
TO task, for it was he who entered the
mare for Broadlawn stables. He stuck
to it, however, that the flly was four
years old, and the judges were in a
: quandal'y. Late in the afternoon we
= discovered Paddy talking to a friend
'and we surreptitiously drew near to
listen. If we had known O'Connell
better we should have questioned him
ourself.
"Eello, Paddy said the other man,
whats the exctement?"
-. "Is there any excitement?" asked
Paddy.
81 mean in Glass 14S, which you win
with Little Fire Lady"
- "Yes," retorted Paddy, still calm, ~
s:win it. What of it?'
But your tilly is only two, isn't she,
and she is listed in the catalogue as
six years."
"Oh, yes, of course. That's typo
graphical error. She's only four years
old"
So But persisted the other man, "they
/, are saying that she is only two. She
. rs only TWO, ISM she .'
"Well," said O'Connell at last, "she
{. Is only two. It's true But thought
she was four when | entered her And
wasn't it grand win for the fly?"
And that was all O'Connell would
say. 1t was his story and he stuck
TO it.
Becky Lamer made almost clean
sweep in the ladies' hunters class.
She had several mounts of her own
and she rode Silver Crest for Frederic
McElhane. As it was she managed to
get away with the first three ribbons
Blue went to her own big chestnut
i, Down East. Red was won by Silver
Crest and the yellow by Boiling,
owned by Charles Lanier. Janice Lig-
gett, on OUTLAW, took an II. c.
Besides her own horses, Cecil and
Doe Run, Ivy Madison rode Beacon
Light for Mrs Ben Ali Haggin and
Lansdown for Mrs. Walter Hsnley.
Miss Ida Fleitmann was up on Pal
metto and she would undoubtedly have
been in the ribbons only that the mare
licked the last jump.
William ii. Moore won the Waldorf
Astoria Challenge Cup with the bay
gelding Moncrief. George Chpchase
was in the drivers seat. Isabella
Wanamaker sat behind her own chest
nut mare Eve and the reserve went to
her over a large and formidable gath
A~fY ~ AiAhx