The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-30
GATHER
FOR POLO
MATCHES
Prince Makes Pilgrimage,
MOT Royal Progress,
to Polo
BY CAROLINE D. APPLETON.

ored guest, royal gentleman
- upon; a. holiday, has, arrived
and haas been greeted. The re-
quisite, II quite spontaneous cour-
tesies which attended that arrival
are more or less completed here
and all eyes, including his own,
are again on the ball.
The great polo clan gathers
steadily, by RAN and welI.battered
ships, from all over the world
The hotels and clubs are filling
rapidly with no doubt the most
extraordinary aggregation of ia.
nous sportsmen New York has ever
SEEN. The old Labor Day order
OF calm that amounted to DESC
lation Is revered. New York in
oughly aroused. Everywhere are
the unnlistakable signs Of a new
order deeply rooted in an old one
the miraculous, overnight CROWN
of the polo tradition"
That tradition Is a formidable
and mysterious affair abroad. There
the great polo games, drawing
upon accumulated resources of the
finest, rarest sportsmanship In.
Volying exact unity, the perfection
OF harmony between man and man
and man and horse--haVe had the
dignity Of ceremonies: Men have
Travelled many miles, have suffered
heartbreak and bitter chagrin, sacri-
ficed fortunes upon the suspension
| Of business activities, left ships If
state and the reins OF government
In the hands Of substitutes and
have taken ship to India, to Egypt,
| TO South America, to France and
| Spain and from these places. have
iourneyed to. England and home
again In triumph or in keen disap.
| pointment-for polo
Some have 0Ied and others today,
forced and extreme though 1t sounds
To say 1t, are quite ready to die for
1t. To the great mass of people in
America that is still Incompetence.
bic. But there 1t is 1t has been
called the polo tradition and II as
Of marked and growing develnp.
ment in America today. It Is
crowding New York in the heat OF
summer with pilgrims from every
corner of the earth. 1t Is more.
over. recruiting the enthusiasm of
the street and the subway; the L
crowds talk polo. not apologetically
as though 1t were an assumption OF
interest in the idle pastimes of tha
idle rich, but shrewdly, cleverly,
tracing the values in Milburn and
Lacey, champinning young Pedley
ridden like young Lochinvar out
of the West to play his way into
the hearts Of alp good judges" as
Mr.. Pond observes.
Good polo judgment lies behind
the sharp eye of the bell.hop who
pages an English. hero through the
Hobby of the Waldorf and an Eng.
ilish, waiter and an 4iEentinian. chef
last night came to blows over the
honor of sharing, the English.Ar-
gentinian Lacey fought and were
both reduced to fearful terror at a
rumor that his injured member
might defy the skill of doctors and
count him out of the game entirely
after ALL
Prince Of Wales Now Has
His Eye on the Ball."
AS for the engaging English
gentleman. who. among other Eng.
fish gentlemen, is vacationing in our
midst. he is profoundly preoccupied
with the forthcoming games He
expresses great satisfaction that his
reception has been unostentatious.
1t has. certainly, been correct.
In the Infancy of polo, probably
some two thousand years ago, when
1t was the sport of kings in Persia,
and was later carried by the Tarters
into China, about 500 A. D., princes
came and went In kind of splendid
isolation. y
They Looked down from chariot
and elephant. from camel and from
those imposing steeds which un.
questionably breathed fire from
mouth and nostrib or they would
not have been so depicted by so
many enthusiastic oriental scribes.
artists. artisans, ETC.. and which
were, nevertheless. horses. sharing
honors with their royal riders, as
horses have shared the honor Of
KINGS since the beginning of both. i
These princes and high priests of
the ancient rituals Of polo must
have progressed in utter boredom.
The abaSement Of the multitudes
made the scene of their passing a
carpet of bowed heads of mobiles
and the cleaning, expressionless
oiled backs of PROSTATE slaves.
Probably the lifted, cheering coun,
Aenance Of a modern. democratic
crowd is more stimulating to a
priucely eye. Likewise the com.
panionship Of other princes-those
OF the indisputable realm Of sport
like Milburn, ''noblest Roman Of
them ALP
The English team. which leads
a monastic and Woodworking life
In its practice period at Mr.. Fleisch.
mans place at Sands Point, L. l.,
is held in respect amounting to awe.
Their reticence and intense applica.
ton to the duty in hand are
rare example of devotion. They
are by no means overshadowed by
the arrival of their prince, whose
willing assimilation by the brilliant
background" Of the Forthcoming
events is a sincere and earnest
tribute to them, to the great game
and to his hosts. Thus it appears
clearly that this is not a royal
progress" but a pilgrimage-to
polo.
SENATOR DALE'S SECRETARY
MARRIED IN .DAEE HOME.
The marriage of Miss Florence
M. Kennedy to Leon II. Conway,
Of Portland, Me-, took place at ii
o'clock this morning in the home
of Senator and Mrs. Porter II.
Dale. Monsignor Gavin of the Sac.