Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
Second Honors Taken
ByCuban Duo, Third
By Chilean Pair
Eorly Faults Hurt U. S.
Entry; Hi-Ho Scores in
Knock Down-und-O Out
BY JACK ALLEN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

co captured its first leg on the in
ternational military team jumping
trophy at the National Horse Show
tonight when ReSorte and Valiente
put together a 5-fault performance
to give the Mexicans a low aggre-
gate score of 81 faults for the two
events comprising the team match.
In second place in the small field
of teams. reduced this year by a
graver type of conflict across the
oceans, was the Cuban Army, with
2415 faults. followed by Chile, win
ner in 1888 and 1899, with % faults
and the United States with %.
Fifteen thousand people who sat
on the slopes of Madison Square
Gardens tanbark arena saw the
United States combination of King
Hi and Dinger, ridden by Capt.
Royce A. Drake and Capt. M. w.
Frame, turn in a perfect perform
ance, but the % faults charged to
the United States in the first mill
tary team class last night was too
great a handicap to overcome.
Mexico Is Fourth Victor.
With its triumph tonight the
Mexican team. which came to the
National for the first time in 1899,
obtains possession for one year of
the Challenge Trophy donated by
former President Arturo Alessandri
of Chile. 1t has been in competi-
ton since 1884 and Mexico becomes
the fourth country to have its
name engraved on the handsome
award.
United States won 1t In 1884 and
1885. the French team was the vic
tor in 1886, the Canadians in 1897
and the Chileans in 1888 and 1899.
The Chileans, incidentally, neglect
ed to bring the trophy back to New
York this year and the Mexicans
missed out on formal presentation
ceremony.
Each team was permitted to show
two pairs Of horses with the per-
Torrance of the pair scoring the
lowest aggregate count to be con-
sfdered in the trophy race and when
King Hi and Dinger, first through
the entry gate, went faultlessly the
United States second pair of Da-
kota and Democrat was withdrawn.
Chilean Horses OFF Form.
Mexico's best pair. Resorte and
Vahente, were handled by Capts.
Hunberto Marbles and Joaquin S.
Chagoya.
The best of the Cuban pairs were
Habana Club, carrying 1t. Rene
Chipi, and Marques, with Lit. Gerar-
do Padron in the saddle
Toqui and Andina, usually reliable
iencers Of the ChileanS, but far of
their best form tonight, were the
best of the two pairs exhibited by
the South Americans. They were
ridden by Maj. Eduardo Yanez and
Capt. Armando Fernandez.
BY virtue of winning tonight's
class, the United States pair took
over the Jansen Noyes Trophies,
ribbons for second, third and fourth
places in the class went to Mexico,
Cuba and Chile, respectively.
The class for hunt teams, one of
the feature events for conforma-
ton hunters, went to Isaac H. Clo-
thier, jr., Radnor. Pa, when his
Sunnybrook Stables bested four
other teams. Second was the team
of Mrs. G. Watts Hill of Durham,
N. c.
The entry from the Keswick Hunt,
Keswick, Va, was unplaced in the
team competition.
Hi-Ho Gets Third Place.
Hi-Ho, owned by Lisbeth Stieg of
Washington, D. c., picked up third
place in the third days running Of
the five-day knock down-and-out
competition. The class went to Mod
ernistic, from the barn of Mrs. Ed
ward Lasker, Port Chester, N. Y.
Two horses and a young horse
woman well known to the hunting
set in the District of Columbia and
Virginia made sweep of the first
three ribbons in the hunter class
for children under II, competition
which brought 81 entries into the
ring In the finale of today's mat
inee.
Leaf Hanger, owned at enc time
by Horace Moffett of The Plains
Va, but now the property of Pa
tricia Dunn of Fayetteville, N. Y.
who did the riding, won the class
with second place going to Pamuck
shown by Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Renwick of Charlottesville, Va, and
ridden by William Steinkraus of
Westport, Conn.
Behind Pamuck. winner of the
Frank Melville, .jr., memorial chal-
length trophy for hunters yesterday,
was Golden Goose, owned by 1t.
Col. Wilfred M. Blunt of New York
City, former M. F. H. of the Riding
and Hunt Club of Washington. now
the Potomac Hunt. Golden Goose
was handled by 1t. Col. Blunt's
daughter, Mary, winner of many
hunter trial and show ring awards
when she made her home in the
Capital.
McDonough Cadets Score.
Cadets from McDonough School,
at McDonough, Md. accounted for
the pen for open jumpers and a
third place in the team equitation
challenge trophy class with the blue
In the former event going to
Meddler, a 16-year-old fencer, rid
den by William Rasche of identical
age.
Second to Meddler in the pen was
Candolette, the mare of Eleanor
Moffett of Asheville. N. c., high
scorer in the Columbus horse show
at Chevy Chase, Md, this fall.
'McDonough's team, which fin
ished third in the team equitation
class, finished behind two units
from Carroll School of Horseman-
ship, at Scarsdale, N. Y, and was
composed of Elisha Riggs. jr., Will
liam Rasche, his brother, Robert,
and John Thomas Sadler, jr.
On the winning team from Carroll
School were James A. Thomas, jr.
and three brothers, Henry, George
and Jerome Chase, the former
from White Plains, N. Y, and the
Jatter three from Scarsdale N Y