Evening star., 1925-07-26

His greatest accomplishment is
making socks, IL seems. He has made
some extraordinarily good ones, the
officers told me when / was chatting
with them after the game. Doesn't
1t seem queer for a man to spend his
time making socks? No doubt they
have a lot of time on their hands in
the Army-but making socks! Any
way, that's what Mr.. Chumley does,
for several men told me so and they
all seemed to be old friends of his.
There were two games yesterday.
This Mr.. Chumley played in, the Sec
ond one-when the men in the lovely
yellow blouses with green stripes
played the ones dressed all in white.
They really were the best looking
teams, although / am told that the
other two contain the ranking players
or something like that. Those men in
white looked like knights in armor.
They were stunning.
Game Starts With Scramble.
There are a lot of odd things about
this polo business. To begin with, the
"throw-in''-that's the start-off-is alb
solutely innocent of order or dignity.
A man without a mallet throws the
ball into the center of the field ana
then there's q grand scramble. Every
body goes for the ball at the same
time. II reminds me Of a bunch of
fielders scrambling for Texas
Lacquer. Usually all of them miss 1t,
in both cases!
Then, they never give man a fair
chance to make a shot. Every time
he rides up to the ball some one In
terferes and tries to knock him away
I actually heard one man say, Knock
him off. Pat: PUT him over the side
board" OF course, that last was fig'
uratiye. as there wasn't any side
board there. There was no furniture
of any description around. A polo
field is just large expanse OF lawn
with nothing on 1t except two striped
posts at each end which are the goals
or wickets.
Yes, They Changed Goals.
In the first game the 18th Field Ar
tillery played the "War Blues" mot a
melody. but a quartet on horseback)
The Field Artillery won, IL to 0, In
spite of the fact that their star player.
a man they called big Joe, knocked
as many balls through his opponents
wickets as he did through his own.
He knocked a number OF goals ana
at least three Of them went throusn
the wrong wickets or posts. All OF
the men were congratulating him art
erward and none of them was un'
Diplomatic enough to mention his mis-
take, but I noticed 1t distinctly. l
knew which was his end of the field,
because the man who kept score told
me when the first "chukker" began
that's what they call the innings IN
polo-they have eight of theml.
Four of the men in the first game
wore pale-blue blouses with yellow
strfpes. and four of them wore black
and yellow costumes. Their breeches
were white, and they wore helmets on
their heads. All poloists seem to wear
helmets.
Benny" Was Handicapped.
I overheard a man saying afterward
that Benny" the star player on the
Artillery team, didn't shoot his usual
game because he missed his fish this
Friday. Now, what could fish have to
do with a mans aim? Yet he sounded
very serious when he said It.
In the second game the War
Whites" won, to 3. over the Sd
Cavalry team, although one of their
players called kid" something near
ly upset things by running all over
the field, knocking the bah In the
wrong direction Somebody hoflered
Nobody home and that brought
him to.
I never did learn what names they
call the different players--you know
like the pitcher and catcher In base
ball. I asked a soldier who was lead
ing some horses around what they
called them, and he said Anything