ENGLISH POLOJEAM YOUNG
i layers Coming: Who Learned the
Game in India.
HARD TO COMPARE . THE PONTES
Fabtle Will lae Chaste Wlt-
m the India Style f Plan
Which Differ from the
K.nftllsh Materially.
NEW TORK, May 20. The organising of
the English challenging polo team has not
been an easy matter. Buckmaster. admit
ted as being the leading player In England,
rould not come, owing to Illness, and one
or two others found that they could not
rlay In May. Notwithstanding these dif
ficulties. Captain Lloyd was able to call
upon the other four officers, and all being
soldiers, possibly this may turn out to be
the best combination that England could
raise. At any rate, they are all young and
dashing players, used to the hard and fast
name that is played In India, where the
condition of the ground Is very similar to
that In this country. The greatest diffi
culty Incurred by the Britishers was, per
haps, the collecting together aumcient
first class ponies. Some of the owners
"who had really good poniea did not come
up to the occasion and would neither sell
nor lend their mounts. Une cannot blame
them, for a good pony ts worth keeping at
any tout, but still for an International
match they might have been more liberal.
It Is Impossible to compare the English
string with the Americans, as the English
ponies are only Just beginning to gallop
hard, but they do not look so level a lot
as Harry Whitney's, and, Indeed, they
could hardly expect to be, considering the
fact that Whitney has spent some years
and a large amount of money In getting
his stud together, while Lloyd has had only
some eighteen months and a limited purse
to find his ponies. The English team Is
fortunate In one respect, and that is that
they are all lightweight and all are ex
cellent riders.
Different style of Play.
In the course of these games the public
will be able to see the Indian style of play,
which differs greatly from the. English
game, and is Infinitely superior to it, since
the ground Is much truer and faster In
India. On the other hand, the team may
experience some difficulty at first In man
aging their mounts, aa the Indian Arab
ponies and "Walers" are easier to play
than the thoroughbred English ponies.
The English team will be selected from
the following: Captain Hardross Lloyd,
Captain F. W. Ban at t, Captain Leslie
Cheape, Lieutenant W. E. Palmes, Lieu
tenant Noel Edwards. The first named
Is to head the team. It Is Interesting to
note that all of these players have played
and, In fact, learned the game in India,
which may veritably be called the "school
of polo." A short account of their polo
reputations may be of Interest:
Captain Lloyd played for his regiment
the Fourth Dragoon Guards, and captained
the team on several occasions into the
finals of the Inter-reglmental tournament
In the '90s. Since then he has played a
great deal (n England. Ha has represented
Ireland against England and Is the only
player of this quintet who has played
against America in an International match.
Well Knowa Offeere.
Captain "Rattle" Barratt Is a well known
player, both in India and England. In India
he helped his regiment, the Fifteenth hus
sars, to win the inter-regimental for four
years in succession. In England he has
played for the Tigers, a team organised
by Count Jean de Madre. who, by the way,
'has done a great deal for Indian polo
players by helping them to play in Eng
land, and without his aid some of them
would never have been able to play In
first class polo in England.
Captain Leslie Cheape learned his polo
In the Ninety-third Highlanders, where he
gave early proof of his ability. A few
years ago he joined the. king's dragoon
guards, and since then his rise to be a
first class player has been a rapid one.
For the last three years he has captained
his regimental team into the final of the
inter-reglmcntal. In England he generally
plays for the Tigers.
Lieutenant "Billy" Palmes is a pupil of
Colonel John Vauglian's, and has played
In the last five winning teams of the ln-ter-rcglmental
for his regiment, the Tenth
hussars, a great record. He is a w.onder
ful shot at goal, regardless of the posi
tion of the ball. In England, he, too. haa
played for the Tigers.
Lieutenant Noel Edwards gives the. 're
pression of having a great polo future
ahead of him. He has played for his regi
ment, the Ninth lancers, for some years,
and two years ago made such an Impres
sion in England that he would probably
have played against America then If he
had had more experience.
Golf Grows Popular
and More and More
Engage in Practice
Total Aggregate Cost Mounts Up Into
Big Figures for the Entire
Country.
NEW YORK. &ay 20 A striking proof
of the popularity of golf Is given in a
comparison of the coM of various branches
of the sport Considering its compara
tively recent Introduction, the annual ex
penditure on the royal and ancient game
Is really remarkable, as In this respect it
now ranks second only to baseball, it Is
estimated that there are about fioo.000 reg
ular and occasional golf players in the
I'nlted States. The average of club dues,
teea .etc., are about $r0 a" year, and if only
one-fifth of lhee players are actual mem
bera of golf clubs that would mean a cost
of $5,000,000 a year to them, on golf balls
nisi clubs the expenditure Is estimated a:
MliCVt,' 12,000. 0.0 annually. Nor does till)
take Into account such things as golf shoes
and Bl the other Incidentals of the para
phernalia, calculated to cost during twelve
months a sum of $7,000,000.
. For the average city man who lias to
go Into the country to a club In order to
pay $& Is considered very fair approxi
mation of the day's expense. In a year
$2,.V00.0C4 would thus be spent by 100.000
golfers playing only five days a season
Considering that many clubs have In
vestments that run up Into a quarter of a
million or more and that several In this
district have club houses alone wortn
from $T5.O0O to $100,000. an average invest
ment of $Jt,000 cannot be regarded as an
exceasive calculation. This would repre
sent a total Investment of $7..000, to aay
nothing of the money invested in the un
allhrS private and hotel courses, of whlcn
there are more than 1,000 in all. These
should at least double the investment, and
would probably bring It up for real es
tate, buildings and permanent Improve
ments to $15.000 000.
WOMEN IN TENNIS TOURNEY
Tots) Are i Eater Castrate Be H14
la Philadelphia.
SAN FRANCIS CO, May 20. -Miss Hazel
-tchklss and Miss Florence Sutton an-
ounred that they will participate In' the
tational tennis championship contest in
Philadelphia
Harvard and Yale
Will Be Allowed to
Enter Henley Race
London Stewards Offer to Make an
Exception in Rales of the
Competition.
KKVT TORK. May . Although Oxford
declined to accept Harvard's challenge to
meet the Crimson In an' International row
ing race. Harvard and Tale will he able to
row at Henley thin year If they so desire.
According to a dlspp.tch from London the
stewards of the Henlev regatta have de
cided to make an exception in the rules
this year. The change will allow Harvard
and Tale to compete for the Grand Chal
lenge cup. If either Tale or Harvard de
cides to send a crew on to London, the
Americans will meet Magdalen and Jesus
colleges. In the race will also be crews
from Ottawa and Argentina.
The announcement that provisions will
be made to allow American crews to com
pete at Henley ts welcomed by college
oarsmen here. Harvard wanted to meet Ox
ford In an international race, but It Is not
known whether the Johnnies are willing to
go abroad and compete against the English
crews. However, there Is a good chance of
Harvard's competing, as the Crimson and
Yale track athletes are to compete abroad
In an International meet with Oxford and
Cambridge In July. Tales position in the
matter Is not known.
Cornell, Pennsylvania. Harvard and Col
umbia have each rowed in England In
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University Teams
to Make Long Trips
California May Accept the Invita
tion to Visit and Play in .
Japan.
BAN FRANCISCO, May 20.The far and
middle west appear to contain the only big
universities that are ambitious regarding
foreign base ball tours. Announcement
comes from the University of California
that there Is a possibility of that uni
versity sending a base ball team to Japan.
The Callforniana are to make -the trip at
the Invitation of Waaeda and Kel-O uni
versities. The trip, however, will not 'be
made until 1913. Although no defilnlte an
nouncement has been made that the team
will be sent to Japan, the project leaked
out. The athleUc authorities at California
wished to keep the matter one of secrecy
until definite action was taken and the
trip made a certanity. It Is said on the
coast, however, that the trip is a surety.
The fact that the trip la a certainty is
due to the fact that the Japanese uni
versities are to pay the Americanism's
full expenses. The Japanese collegians are
to get the sole proceeds of the gale re
turns. If California goes to Japan it will
be the fourth team sent there by an AmeiL
lean college. Washington, Wisconsin and
Chicago have met the Japanese ball tossers
on foreign soli.
Base ball is flourishing in Japan and
the Japanese' feel that if they are able to
meet American collegians in a series of
games the meeting will further help them
to learn every angle of our national game.
Both the Waaeda and Kel-O nines are at
preaent in this country making tours. The
Waseda team la making a four months'
trip. While here It will play most of the
large college nines.
If California decides to make the trip It
will be the longest one that college has
ever attempted. The AU-American univer
sity foot ball tour last summer to Australia
was a longer trip, but the team was not
made up wholly of University of California
players.
It Is said that the games to be played
in the island empire will Include engage
ments at all the big cities and with the
leading Japanese university teams. It is
planned to have the team leave this coun
try some time next May. It will not return
until September, On the return the man
agement plana stopping off at Honolulu
to play several games there as well as at
Hllo.
Provisions will be made to take fifteen
men, including a coach and a manager.
The duties of the manager, however, will
cease just aa soon aa the team arrives in
Japan. While the squad is en tour through
the island empire it will be under the
personal direction of Prof. Sherayama of
the University of Waaeda.
Motorcycle Eaces
on Decoration Day
NEW YORK. May a). -No lees tnan six
teen big motorcycie events are scheduled
lor Memorial day in as many cities. From
California to Virginia and from Michigan
to Florida motorcycles will be going
through their best paces In road and track
i aces, reliability and endurance runs and
hill climbs. Looming above the many
events, which will hold the attention of
motor cyclists and lovers of good racing;
Is the fivu-mlle national championship race
of the Federation of American Motor
Cyclists. This has been awarded t the
North Shore Motor Cycle club of Chicago.
The Federation of American Motor
Cyclists' two-mile national championship
will be run on Sunday, May 21, under the
auspices of the San Franclsoo Mutor Cycle
iltib at San Francisco, and Ita was speci
fied by Competition Chairman Xhornley
In awarding the five-mile event to the
North Star Shore club that the date chosen
should not conflict with the two-mile
evxnt in San Francisco or with the races
during lh Fdt-ratl n of American Motor
Cyclists' national meet at Buffalo, July
10-15.
The interval between May 21 and May SO
will giv e all riders ho participate in the
San Francisco event ample time to get to
Chicago fur the five-mile race. Th.s in
sures the best and fastest riders for each
of the two events.
There will be many other noteworthy
Memorial day events arranged, but even
with the present list it will probably be
the biggest day In the history of general
motorcycle events throughout the country.
The It'll motorcycles are better than ever
before and new motorcycle riders have
been budding taster than the spring flow-
era. The motorcycle advance during the
last year la remarkable. More than 2.0H0
riders have Joined the Federation of
American Motor Cyclists since last Sep
tember, which leads the observer to won
dera how many there mutt be who have
Just got acquainted with the pleasures of
the motorcycle, but who have not yet put
themselves on record In the Federation of
American Motor Cyclists.
JONES MAY BEAT THE BEC0SD
Taracll Mis la Tealea aa Fast la the
Mile Haa.
NKW TORK. Mav JO The athletic
sharps who have waited patiently for six
teen years to see Tommy Conneff s mile
record of 4 IS 3-i beaten may possibly be
reaarded when J. P. Jones of Cornell uni
versity starts in the Intercollegiate one
mile championship in the Harvard stadium
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Base Ball Picture Front Row: McMillan, Right Field; Brown, Second; Meller. Pitcher; Mead, Pitcher; Kerrigan (Captain). Shortstop; Levlstln. Pitcher; . Mols-
beiry. Pitcher: Trottnow, Umpire; Waggner. Umpire: Miller, Loft Field. Back Row: Wllllrfms, Coach; Hubbard, Assistant Coach; Rlnghelm, Catcher; Mallcry. First;
Clark, Pitcher; Nason. Third; Kingman. Cejiter Field; Sunborn, Umpire; Buckman, Umpire; Cool. Umpire.
LOWER PANEL, THE AMES TRACK TEAM,
xvn Tra!1 P'cture-Front Row: Garabrant, McClyea. Wlerlck. Keeney. Scott. Collins. Walker, Corkrell (Captain), Pyer. Bristol. Dotv, Lessel. Bsck Row: Holcombe.
A lison. McCormick, Rutledge. Cressler. Henninger, Johnson, Stewart, Brown, Crawford, Smith, Vincent. Corray. Anderson. Dixon, Nordstrom. Morlarity. Hutcheson.
Watson (Trainer). - . . . . j. .
at Cambridge on May 27. Thla is not pre
dicting that Jones will accomplish the
great feat, but it cannot be denied that
the great Cornell runner has a better
chance to upset Conneffs mark than any
one that has attempted it.
Jones ran the mile recently on the
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Actively Athletic Aggies' of . Iowa College
UPPER PANEL. THE AMES BASE BALL
track at Franklin field, Philadelphia,
which Is none too fast. In 4:18 4-5. The;
Harvard track is considered not less than i
two seconds faster than the Penn. path,
because of the protection to the runner I
furnished by the high walls of the stadium I
and the 'whirr" of air that generally en- 1
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circles the amphitheater, entering from the
.'liarle.t river aide of the structure. It
was on the Harvard track that Billy Paull
inn his 4:17 4-7.. which time he has never
seen able to duplicate elsewhere. Another
rotable case of exceptionally fast time in
the Cambridge stadium Is furnished In the
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performances of 'Herbert Jacques, the
Harvard distancer. Jacques has run all of
his fast races on the home track, and a
close study of his performances shows
him to be Just about two seconds faster in
the mile there than elsewhere.
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All Its Compctitoitf
Omaha Takrs First Place in SUt
Meet by an Overwhelm- t
injr Lead.
The Otrat-a P'rli oho.-l track team re
peated lt e-.'o-rvnee of lust year aaaltl
by iakint. f-. i.lrre In the state nvet
held at I.'nro r i-'ii.i.iy afternoon. Omaha
made a'niost vice as mHny polnta a
York, hi . iv competitor. fl'ihert
Wood, the ,-sv t 'inter of the school, ivhi
has been cu'i'i'liu rt;M places In everyy
meet, wrn t o i rt r'uri and one secon'J
place Fennn Kom-Icv succeeded In flnlahl
Ing second In Hi" T.'O , a-d hurdles, a ff
yard- brh'nrt W I'cy "f York, the star of
the meet.
This mi et -is? rr.u-t ieally the last meet
for the Oirah" I'ant thl saort. A bat
talion ni v 11 be h'M st camp, how
ex er. brt ! a"',lcrl ' n, allowed In
each event Tbl sc-en has been one of
the nv s -oirre s'':l In iraek work In the
hlstorv of tie i!ioo'. The school tra k
train r- f'ef'a ed te-lce. honeer In t'ie
Missouri .'1ley' met Omaha gained second
place, v..t!i Km's" it; Ontsal fam first.
In the era: :i-e-t with Pelvue. Omiha did
well. The c"l ec S" votiirt not allow any
handlear r'ned on their team, tt
the high srl-ool lrl f"r the first time In
several vesr were pitted against the
strength and sp-ed ft college team.
Wood riefrstefl rrlmroe. Rellevue's star
man. In th's met !n the lOO yard dah.
i;ft,on rjowlev. who holdt the schs
record in tli" .-J0-: ard hurdle, was
unata ""I
to seems first plnre in this event In the)
state miet. but his lime was coed. Leonard.
Lnvii'ce- secured third place In the high
hurdles.
Huch Millard, who made see-nd In the
440-yard rfn-h. ind Albert Cahn, who f'n
Ished third, dsrrxe ciedit. Lee Pllswort'l.
while only ir.akins f tirth r're In the mile
run, h b'en n fait'iful work-r this season
and will rrol'aMv receive an 'O" for hlJ
work. Vers'!' Rector, added another first
place to his laurels in the pole vault at the
state meet by clearing the bar at 10 feet 9
Inches, rtrctor has not been defeated encs
this emnn In thl" event, and next to Wool
averages the most points for the Omaha
team. Rector is also a high Jumper and
tied with Quackenbush for second place.'
Andrew Vnw. the only weight mail lf
the ?choil. marie second place in the shou
put. (
Omaha's relay team Is even strongef
than the team which set a new record for
the school last year. The team succeeded
In not only making first place in the state
meet, but In the face of a stiff wind broke
the state record by three-fifths of a second.
Coach R. I Carns is pleased by the suc
cess of his pupils and Is anxious to seoure
another meet with some outside school.
Ten men who constituto the school teatnr'
will be awarded their letters about June t
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