Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
BRILLIANT RITES
OPEN HORSE SHOW
international Exhibition
Brings WorId-Famous
Entries Into Action.
Pictures on Page BIZ
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, Jr.


Americas only great outdoor inter-
national horse show was set to begin
here today at las o'clock. Inaugu-
rated with brilliant military ceremonies
especially appropriate to the title OF
Army day" bestowed on the first
session, the exhibition will bring into
action before the last class on Sunday
the world famous jumpers of the United
States and Belgium Olympic horse
show teams, hunters from leading
stables in and near the District. jump
ing teams from three States, packs
of foxhounds and the magically
trained dressage horses belonging to
the Army.
While the third annual meeting at
East-West Highway retains its nominal
title of Inter American" horse show,
a name adopted when teams from
Chile and Mexico made it strictly an
affair between the horsemer of the
Americas, it is, in fact, purely inter-
national this season. For four days
the Belgian and American teams will
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superiority in tests that will be re-
peated later at the National Horse
Show in Madison Square Garden and
at Toronto, Canada.
Team Contests Start Today.
The team contests take place today,
Saturday and Sunday, while the indi-
vidual competition is set for tomorrow.
Representing the United States in
this phase of the meet are Capt. Milo
E. Matteson, chief of the squad; Lieut..
Franklin Wing, jr.; Capt. Royce Drake,
Lieut.. Scott Sanford and Lieut.. w. E.
S. Wright. Capt. Isaac L. Kits will
stage the dressage exhibition with his
mount, American Lady.
The American horses are Dakota,
Ugly, Dinger, Podhorski, Fralax, Rem
70, Masquerader, Filter, Joe Aleshire
and Goldseeker, all veterans, and
Scamp's Boy, Harry Waterson, Colo
mel Pink, Crescent, Fitzota, Soother
and King Hi, newcomers to the big
time
n The Belgian personnel consists of
Iepitaine Commandante Chevalier de
Menten de Horne, chief of the squad,
and Lieut.. Paul Mondron, Lieut.. Van
Strydonck and Lieut.. Poswick.
Horses Hand-Picked.
Their horses, not so numerous as
the American force, but hand-picked
for the tourney across the Atlantic.
are Musaphiki, Whisky, Trouvaille,
Ibrahim, Ramona, x, Acrobate and
Soir de Paques.
Exact personnel and equine strength
of the inter-St teams has not been
announced yet, but it is known that
the best jumpers available in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia will vie
again for the Governors Cup, the tro-
ply offered to stimulate interest in a
sort of local Olympics.
Complementing the daily exhibition
of dressage technique will be a drama
of interest to all who know and APP
preciate foxhounds-a demonstration
of the methods used in reading"
hounds. The first pack to be shown
will be that of the Fairfax Hunt,
which comes up today; the famous
Middleburg Hunt tomorrow; the Red
land Hunt of Montgomery County,
Md, on Saturday, and the Riding
and Hunt Club on Sunday.
In addition to these features there
will be numerous hunter and jumper
classes of the type regularly seen in
the big Virginia and Maryland meets.
These classes will include $500 jump
er stake, $500 hunter stake, and the
audience-beloved Corinthian and hunt
team tests.
Judges of the international military
classes are Senior Don de Alfaro, AM
bassador of Ecuador to the United
States; Maj. Gen. Leon B. KRONER,
Chief of Cavalry, U. S. A., and Lieut..
Col. Emmanuel Lombard, military at
tache. French Embassy.
The Interstate team jumping and
other civilian and military jumping
classes are to be scored by Lieut.. Col.
John Milliken, Fort Myer; DR.. Fred
Sanderson. M. F. H., the Riding and
Hunt Club, and Capt. Lawrence X.
Ladue of Governors Island, NJ Y.
Hunter judges are Col. w. w. T.
TORI. military attache of the British
Embassy, and Maj. Henry Leonard.
Melvin c. Hazen, president of the
Board Of District Commissioners, Is
head of the Inter- American Horse