Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1915 — PLANNING FOR POLO IN WEST [ARTICLE]

PLANNING FOR POLO IN WEST

Scores of Riders Will Be Entered for Event at San Francisco—Makeup of Some Teams. * Polo players throughout the United States and those interested in the sport will in all likelihood see on the Pacific coast this winter one of the largest if not the largest tournaments that .have ever been held in this country. The games, which will be held under the auspices of the universal polo committee, have the sanction of the American Polo association, and on its executive committee are some of the leading polo men of this country. Competing teams will come from St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Long Island and Cooperstown, N. Y. There will also be one or more teams from Canada, Hawaii and Argentina. The crack team from Buenos Aires will bring its string of ponies, which, although smaller than those used by Americans, show much speed and handiness. Dwight F. Davis, the former tennis champion of America, will in all likelihood be the captain of the St Louis team; Fred McLaughlin will represent the Chicago team, and Malcolm Stevenson, twice a substitute player on the American international team against England, will captain the Cooperstown team, twice winners of the United States championship. Playing with Mr. Stevenson will be F. S. Vonstade, C. Perry Beadleston and Charles Carey Rumsey.