Evening star., 1938-10-24
By ROBERT HENRY.


horse show team won the international
military jumping championship in the
Inter-American Horse Show at Mead
owbrook yesterday, the general opinion
seemed to be that only extremely hard
luck on the part of its opponents made
the feat possible.
Losing ground steadily as the COM
petition neared climactic close, the
victors were pretty well out-jumped
by their foes and only the toughest
sort Of breaks to the invaders saw them
home by photo finish" margin.
Both the Mexicans and the Chileans
had perfect aim on the winners
trophy when the well-known tickle
fortunes of fate turned cold shoulder
on them
Even after the final score-United
States, 40 faults: Mexico. 4012 faults;
Chile, Al faults-had been announced
many Of the 5000 spectators felt that
the losers deserved a better ranking.
Chileans Earn Better Rating.
The Chileans. in particular, earned
more than their last-place rating, as
they fought gamely down the home
stretch and except for rather fluky
mishap they would have gotten more
With the knowledge that a score OF
anything better than eight faults would
give them the title the South American
representatives sent out It. Pelayo
Izurieta mounted on the rangy brown
mare Deseada to give their all
1t was plain to see that the horse
was going better than at any other time
during the four-day show as she
cleared jump after Jump with ease and
plenty to spare. Nearing the COM
paratively easy double rail fence she
crouched low for the leap, suddenly
slipped, lost her balance, and went
down.
It. Izurieta. figuring that 10 faults
would be added to their score should
he lose his horse. hung on for dear
life as his mount struggled to hel
feet. 1t was mighty effort on the
part of the rider. and he did preven,
the 10 points from being scored, but
already it was too late to beat the
leaders.
That chance was lost, and though
Deseada completed the 1s-jump course
cleanly 9 big points for the mishar
were chalked up against her team
That was one and a fraction toe
many.
Mexicans Have Similar Fate.
The Mexicans. too, had opportunity
to catch the Americans with their last
performer, but a similar fate awaited
them.
Azteca, which the day before had
made one OF the three clean scores in
the event, and with 1t. Ramiro Pelafos
IN the saddle, also seemed ready for a
good round when he fell at the biz
bank jump-l3th on the course-in-
jured leg and could not finish. It
appeared that he hardly would have
made more than II faults in his round
and that would have brought the
Mexicans victory
The United States team. which had
entered the final day of competition
with a 412-point lead, thanks mainly
to Dakoto's perfect Saturday round
was having its troubles yesterday
None OF the crack jumpers were
living up to the hopes Of the spectators,
who thought before the score was
omcial that they had lost.
The Governors Cup class, interstate
competition of the big show, also
supplied a picture finish, as Morris
Clark's team from Virginia barely
outlasted a fast closing District Of
Columbia four.
Starting the days activities with a
6E2-point lead over the Washing
tonians, who had moved into second
place Saturday, the leaders Just did
manage to combat Hi-Ho's perfect
round.
Lisbeth Steig Scores.
The latter horse, owned and ridden
by Lisbeth Steig, the youngest member
OF the local team, outjumped all of
the Interstate horses as she took
every one Of the 16 jumps in perfect
style to win individual honors for the
day.
However, that was not quite enough
to catch the Orange team, as Mr..
Clark rode his famous Whoopee around
the course with only ~ faults to win
by point
The Maryland team, defending the
cup won last year. also came fast in
the last day to catch and pass the
New York team, Lacquer Lady, show
ing plenty of skill, scored the second
best mark of the day by going around
with only fault.
Horses from Virginia, consistent
winners the first three days, again
scored heavily, Mrs. George P. Green
halgh's Merry Prince won the Corithian