The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
INVADING POLO
PLAYERS |RED
shifts
Major HurndaII's Removal
Causes Open Dispute on
British Team
By CAROLINE DAWES APPLE.
TON.


TON.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1s.-The ele-
ment Of uncertainty in today's
game, the second in the interna-
tional series at Meadowbrook, is
accumulated by open dispute among
the invaders resulting in the sum.
mary removal Of Major Hurndall
from the team and the naming OF
Major Atkinson as No. on the
English team. The lineup for Eng.
land will be, therefore, No. 1, Lien.
tenant Colonel T. p. Melville: No. 3.
Major Godfrey H. Phipps Hornby:
No. 3, Major Atkinson, and Luis
Lacey, captain, at back.
Being himself a member of the
selection committee and having been
! removed without having beer
brought into consultation in the
matter, Major Hurndall is greatly
incensed and has cabled his pro-
tests to England, expressing the
opinion that he has been used in a
high.handed and discourteous man.
ner and that the incident is the
elimination Of a series of disagree
ments within the British lines
which have seriously impaired their
efficiency in the field.
Major Hurndall points out that
the team has had three captains and
that although there is no personal
luminosity between the players there
has been background Of argument
and dissension between those who
have the management of the team
and the executives, and he also
brings forth for the first time in
open comment the opinion very
largely expressed by visiting Eng.
Iishmen that the team now heavily
charged with defending England's
polo traditions in America is not
entirely representative of popular
sentiment at home and that their
defeat last Saturday was scarcely
surprising to their observers over
seas.
English Press Comments.
This is substantiated by remarks
in the British press which have
been cabled in tabloid form to GER
tain polo executives here. Major
Hurndall's removal from the four
on the eve Of the second game
cannot be construed to be the re6'lt
OF any deficiency in his play last
Saturday. None but Mr.. Lacey
made better showing or more gal
lantly upheld the delicate points of
the. game to which the English
rtgidly adhere, and the root Of the
controversy may be established by
the simple remark with which
Major Hurndall concluded his ex.
pressions Of opinion: I'VE can only
proceed now to prepare for the
international military series in Eng.
land next season when / hope we
shall efface this years defeat with
an army victory"
Mr.. Malcolm Stevenson. whose
injury in Saturdays game and the
attendant mystery concerning his
actual condition have created great
concern, will not appear in the
game today. Mr.. Stevenson was
visible today for a few minutes
and, being visible, protested that
he had established the precedent
for being visible tomorrow, But II
will be quite impossible for him
to play although men have been
known to perform strange and
nearly superhuman acts in polo as
IN war. Mr.. Stevenson will be re.
placed at No. by Robert Straw.
Bridge, jr., of Philadelphia, who
made a brief presence as a substi.
tute on Saturday following Mr..
Stevenson's accident, one Of dis.
tlnction and value to the team.
U. s. Team Weakened.
The elimination of Mr.. Steven.
son will nevertheless weaken the
apparently invincible America
combination which has practiced
and performed together with such
astounding unison, and the conrhi.
nation of Lieutenant Colonel Mel.
VILE and Major Phipps Hornbv in
the forward positions on the Eng.
lish team encourages the chaI.
lengers to feel that the game IN.
DAY Will be more evenly cast. The
American lineup is unaltered save
Tor the substitution of Mr., Steven.
son by Mr.. Strawbridge.
Young Strawbridge thus Sins tho
thin edge of the wedge of youth
into the international scheme which
mas built upon age and experiences
Tor It's honors, and in the sidelines
movers young Eric Pedly, the Cali.
Iornlan Lockinvar, who has come
so Tar to prove to scepticaI and
conservative East that his spurs
were soundly won, and by unani.
NOUS If discreetly subdued opinion.
young Mr.. Pedley has the making
OF Lacey, nothing less. Barring
the note Of tragedy, family sounded
by Saturdays accident, there are
rev sufficiently ungenerous to wish
that Pedley will not get into the
game somehow, and as the personal
suspense Of a substitute leads di.
rectiy to a condition of nerve pros.
tratlon, incurable until the practice
or another season is well under way
II is greatly to be hoped that young
redIey Will wear home a portion Of
the laurels of this series.
FRANCE PI ANS CAMpAInM