Evening star., 1936-11-07
FRENCH HORSEMEN.
| GAIN TEAM TITLE.
u. S. Second as Easy Course
Makes Farce of Final.
Chile Defaults.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS. JR.,
Stan CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.

\ 4 ADIsON SQUARE GARDEN,
M New York City, November
v Three shrewd, cautious
4 and able horsemen repre-
senting the French Republic. clinched
the international team championship
Of the fifty-third National Horse Show
here last night in an almost farcical
competition which might well have
been declared mo contest" 80 easy
was the course set up for the final
round Of the three-day rivalry for q
challenge cup presented by President
Arturo Allesandri Of Chile that only
two of the seven teams in action failed
to make the round without fault.
Curiously enough, one Of these was
the Chilean trio, which came to grief
when the brilliant mare Xysme refused
q white plank gate three times. Xysme
was hurt recently In fall at the Inter-
American Horse Show in Washington,
and seems not to have recovered from
the timidity naturally induced by that
experience. Furthermore, the mare 8
rider, Capt. Eduardo Yanez, made the
mistake Of not sending his teammates
on through in front of him after the
refusal BY that maneuver he could
have given the balky fencer a lead,
and saved his country from disbar-
ment. but even then he could have
hoped for no better than third.
Swedish Skill Is Wasted.
THE reason for that was the simple
course. which virtually left the re-
suits standing as Of the second night.
The French had 1871 faults when the
score was added up Thursday evening.
the United States had 23 and Chile
24la.
The only change in that rating was
brought about by Chile's default,
which slipped the Canadian Army into
the third notch. The fallacy of the
whole situation was sharply empha-
sized by the record OF the Swedish
Army squad, which put over two clean
performances in a row on Thursday
and last night, yet was never able to
make up any ground to compensate
for tough luck encountered on the
opening heat. In other words, the
Swedish were doing big things, but
the puny obstacles last evening pre-
vented them from profiting thereby
OF course, the same was true Of the
horsemen from the United States. who
actually were going better than the
French in the ultimate test. but got
nowhere fast because the course was
one that almost any good horse or
team of good horses could clear with
out q knockdown.
While conditions of the final class
did not exactly meet the highest sport
ing requirements. 1t could not be de-
MED that the French were magnifi-
Gently mounted on Volant II, Saida
and Welcome; that they handled
themselves superbly from start to nm
ish and that Capt. Pierre Clave. Capt
Francois Durand and Lieut.. Amador
de Busnel must be rated as the favor
ties to garner individual military hon.
ors in the remaining classes open to
Army jumpers. 1t is likely. however.
that the Americans. the Irish, and
especially the Swedish will continue
to polish up in form and step forth
to claim a cut of the booty themselves
on the four remaining nights.
Tonight the military riders tie up
again in a serious battle for the Bow
man Challenge Cup for officers
mounts, and tomorrow night the boys
in uniform will 60 out with blood in
the eye to try for the 81 200 military
jumping stake.