The Washington times., 1929-04-29
Three Horse Shows and Davis Cup
Matches Appeal to LOVERS of Sport
May to Be Month of
Out-of-Door Activities;
Wardman Park Show
First on Calendar.

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Everybody's talkin 6
horses nowadays, with no
less than three shows in the
offing. Boots and saddles
will be sounded first on
Saturday, when the Ward
man Park Saddle Club will
stage its spring show as a
benefit for the Garfield Hos
pital Nursey Guild. Next
week, also on Saturday, will
come the Children's Horse
Show at the Preece Riding
School, which annually
brings out the most accom-
/, plished horsemen and horse
women among the juniors,
! with the smartest Of gal
leries looking on. And on
May 16, II and 18 we are to
have THE HORSE SHOW,
to which the others are but
preliminary.
Hunt Ball
Visitors are coming from
New York and Philadelphia as
well as nearby Virginia for the
National Capital Horse Show
Associations hardy annual, to
be held this year, as last, at
Bradley Farms, in the pictur-
esque Bradley Hills; and plans
for a hunt ball and breakfast
to be held at the Mayflower on
the evening Of May II in con-
nection with the horse show are
rapidly taking shape.
Riding Toys
The sound Of the hunting horn
will open the ball and old Eng
lsh hunting songs win be sung
by the assembled guests when
breakfast is served after midnight
"a well-known Washington mu.
stefan directing the singing to the
accompaniment Of an orchestra.
Many Of the guests will wear
hunting pink and others smart
riding togs, prizes having been
offered for the most effective rid
ing clothes worn.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam viii
head the receiving line at the
ball that evening, assisted by Mrs.
Breckenridge Long, Mrs. Cary
Grayson, Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh,
Mrs. Eugene Meyer and Mrs. Ben.
jamin r. Holcombe.
Minister Of Egypt and Madame
Walsh, Mrs. Eugene Meyer,
Charles Delmar, Of New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxim Karolik, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Denegre, Mrs.
Isabel K. Daniel, Major and Mrs.
Ennalls Waggaman and Col. Wade
Cooper.
On the box committee for the
ball are the Misses Marion Jar
dine, Elizabeth Jackson, Hester
Ann LeFevre, Dorothea Lane,
Florence Wetherill, Adelaide Henry
Mary Carolyn Henry, Francesca
McKenney, Mary Page Julien,
Rebecca Davidson, Peggy Burch,
Vera Bloom, Evelyn Gordon,
Frances Virginia Waggaman, En-
gracia Freyer, Helen Walker,
1uv1e Moore, Nancy Hamilton,
Exilona Hamilton, Elizabeth Mott.
ing, Frances Saul, Katherine Sny-
der and Sophie Snyder.
Children's Show
Mrs. Jimmie" Curtis il the
promoter Of the Children's Horse
Show, in which her children take
part each year and the children
Of her friends and Of her friends
friends. Some of the same young.
sters and a good many others,
with a goodly group Of grown.
ups have made entries in the
Wardman Park Saddle Club Show,
which is to be held at the Rock
Creek Park Equitation Field hard
by the Saddle Club under the
auspices Of the Welfare and
Recreational Association Of Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds.
The show will open at 1870
o'clock and buffet luncheon
will be served beforehand on the
terrace Of the club. The proceeds
will be used by the Garfield
Nursery Guild to maintain the
four baby wards at the hospital
and to aid the board in its
enlargement program.
Among the patronesses, are:
Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs.
Robert Patterson Lamont, Mrs.
Clarence G. Williams and Mrs.
Cary T. Grayson, wife Of Ad-
nniral Grayson, who is president
Of the National Capital Horse
Show Association.
Davis Cup
It Is not often that Washing.
ton has opportunity to witness
even the preliminary play for the
Davis Cup, famous international
tennis trophy which was the gift
OF Dwight r. Davis, sometime
Secretary of War and a crack
tennis player of his day. But the
Chevy Chase Club has been Sc.
lected for matches to be held on
May %, "a and Is between Japan
and the winner Of the first round
matches between Canada and the
United States. These will be
played in Montreal on May 16, II
and Is. Japan has drawn a bye
in the first round.
The matches at Chevy Chase
will be the semi-finals for the
American zone, the winners to
meet in Detroit the survivors of
a match between Mexico and
Cuba. And, France now holding
the Davis Cup, the international
finals will be held in Paris in
July.