The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28
BIRMINGHAM POLO.
 TEAM WILL PLAY CAVALRY QUARTET
Magic City's First Polo Match At Roberts Field
 At 3::30 O'Clock

Everything is set for the Magic Citys first polo match, which will be staged Saturday afternoon on Rob erts Field, near Ensley, on the Tide water car line. The principals in the match Will be the Sixth cavalry team of Camp Mcclellan and the Birmingham polo team. The match starts at 330 o'clock.
 Parking space has been marked off for cars and the game can be watched from the cars or the spec tators may occupy the chairs which have been placed around the field. The field has been rolled and the grass cut low. This will insure fast play and with the two crack teams competing the game should be thriller.
 The ponies of the Sixth cavalry team arrived Friday and were given q practice workout over the field. The ponies are in fine conditions for the match.
 The Birmingham team will have among it's players Maj H. M. Estes and Lieut.. H. w. French, both of whom are two goal handicap men in the American Polo association, who are stationed at Camp Mcclellan, but who agreed to play with the local team on the probable absence of Capt. North Duncan and Maj. Matt Murphy. Major Estes will play No. ,, one of the most important posi- tiCns on the team while Lieutenant French will serve as alternate. Major Estes is ranged as one of the best backs playing in army circles and has been in charge of the polo at Camp Bragg, N. C..
 The Bromberg Jewelry company mas offered a beautiful silver lovins cup for the winner of the match Sat- urday. The cup will be presented to the captain of the winning team.
 Grigadier General Winans or Col tunel Fleming will officiate IS ref cree, while Karl Landgrebe will throw in the first ball and serve as honorary referee. Sake Crawford has been appointed official timekeeper, and Col. Walter E. Bare as official scorer.
 The band from Camp Mcclellan will furnish music between periods. The line-ups follow:
 Sixth Cavalry (colors, yellow and white): No. l, Lieutenant Watson; No. 2, Major Foster; No. 3, Lieuten- ant Dewey; No. 4, Lieutenant Colonel Tompkins (team captain); alternate, Lieutenant Forsythe.
 Birmingham Polo Association (col- ors, red and white): No. l, Captain Walthour; No. ?, Major Estes; No. 3, Captain Hurt (team captaln); No. 1, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew's; alter nates Captain Carter, Captain Dun can and Lieutenant French.
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 Many Room Reservations. Many rooms have been reserved in the TutWiler hotel by persons from various parts of Alabama who will be in Birmingham Saturday to see the first polo game ever played in Birmingham
 N. F. Sanford, assistant manag ger of the hotel, said the reservations were unusual in number because southern people, as viewed from his experience, did not pay much at tention to making reservations. The applications received, he said, was taken to indicate many visitors and preparations were being made ac- cordingly.
 AS {, hotel man." Mrs. Sanford said, T have observed that in the north the custom of making reserva- tions is so developed that it is not unusual for rooms to be reserved a year ahead of an important event, hundreds of reservations being made | for big games, musical events, polltl- cal meetings and similar large and important gatherings, but in the south our patrons seem to consider the possible changes in weather con ditions, other affairs arising need llng their attention, and so they are more inclined to take chances on getting comfortable accommodation in hotels.
 But the number of advance calls for rooms we have received for the polo game is so unusual we cannot but think it indicates a more than unusual attendance and clearly indi- cates the game is of real statewide | interest.