Evening star., 1934-04-29

statue 10 Cne late william Jennings
Bryan, on May 3, at which time Presi-
dent Roosevelt will accept the bronze
statue
President Rodriguez of Mexico
asked Mr.. Daniels to officially repre-
sent him and award the trophy to the
winning American team in the inter-
national polo series in Mexico last
week. While the American Army polo
team lost to the Mexican Army quar-
tet, 7 to S, in the third and final game
OF the series, they nevertheless won
the series, to l.
1t was one of the gamiest matches
ever played and would have won the
praise of the late Mrs. Thomas Hitch
cock, ST., whose interest in polo made
it an outstanding American sport.
Maj. c. c. Smith of Fort Sheridan
broke his left hand in the fifth chuk-
ker and had to retire from the game
In favor Of Lieut.. Gordon Rogers, the
popular former White House aide. And
worse still. Capt. c. E. Davis, also of
Fort Sheridan, played the entire
match with three broken ribs, while
Capt. Lucian Truscott of Fort Myer,
convalescing from a heavy fall in the
first game of the series, took another
spill in the eighth chukker and passed
out. He was revived. however, and
finished the game. But this was not
must have had the lid
off-for Maj. j. M. Swing collapsed
while dressing for the match and was
under the care of physician for the
remainder of the day.
Congress has heap to do if it gets
away from Washington in June, but
as the wish is father to the thought,
there will be monstrous effort
to adjourn, for there are interminable
miles of fences to mend and other
chores before the Fall hustings.
But whether school keeps or not, it
looks like there will be an exodus
Kentucky-ward on Saturday, May S,
when the Sixtieth running of Amer
ica's greatest classic, the Kentucky
Derby. takes place at Churchill
Downs, Louisville.
1t has not been verified If Vice
President Garner is to join the crowd,
but it is likely that his heart at least
will be there-and 1t does seem too
bad not to have high official repre-
sentative from Washington.
There is a larger number of the
leading 3-year-olds listed for the
turf classic than there was last year
and the running will carry a $4,000
added value this year.
WaShingtonians, as well as New
Workers. are very much interested, be-
cause Mrs. Payne Whitney's Green
tree Stable held the honor of naming
the largest number of thoroughbreds
for the race. And Mrs. John Hay
Whitney is evidently going to close
her desk in the N R. A. and 60 down
to Kentucky, since her horse, Singing
Wood, winner of the Belmont Futurity
and S82,950 last year, will be there.
Maybe Representative Isabella Green
way of Arizona. who, if memory is
not tricky, belongs to the DinSmoreS
OF Kentucky, will go down. She would
make complete the famous trio for
which the Blue Grass State is noted
beautiful women, fine horses and good
whisky.
During the last two decades it has
become more and more popular for
women to join in outdoor
sports and the rich woman who does
not own a string of hunter+or even
a small stable-is srare. But 1t re-
mains for Mrs Thatcher r. Kimball
OF Brush Hill, Milton. Mass, to be
the first woman to play the chief role
In financing a cup yacht.
She is to help put the Americas
Cup yacht, Yankee, in commission
Tor the Summer races. When the de-
signer and other Bostonians decided
upon a public appeal to New Eng
landers to help recondition the yacht,
Mrs. Kimball came forward hand
somely.
A new undersecretary has been
Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell,
who will have the distinction of being
the first undersecretary of the De-
partment of Agriculture. 1t is al
legged against him that he is not dirt
farmer, but at any rate he Is a good
carpenter and built a house for him.
self. Prof Tugwell can talk farmers
talk and they can understand him
and, besides, he can write a charm
ing monograph on Thomas Hardy.
On Thursday at the luncheon hour
Mrs. Edward M. Townsend of New
York Is to give a talk on Sulgrave
Manor at the Sulgrave Club. Dupont
Circle. Mrs. Townsend's talk will be
with slides of the Manor
House, to which Lawrence Washington,
the ancestor of the First President,
went in 1539
The late Viscount Lee of Fareham,
in his preface to Mr.. H. Clifford
Smiths book, "Sulgrave Manor and
the Washingtons," in speaking of the
restoration of the manor house says,
"Sulgrave Manor, reconstructed and
preserved with taste, scholarship and
loving care, has become a worthy
place of pilgrimage and an abiding
of the common origin of
the English-speaking peoples"
Little Sistie Dall-or Eleanor, as
she has announced she wishes to be
called, Is a very well behaved little
girl at church, but she does have
sometimes an uncomfortable desire
just to get glimpse behind her. She
does not know with what amusement
Grandfather President watches her
out Of the corner of his eye, and she
is quite prim and demure while
Grandmother Roosevelt finds the
hymns and places in the prayer book