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I Strong Team of American Players With Best Ponies in the World to Seek Trophy in England Next June By J C COOLEY B 4 CROSS the water theso Inst months B ZA the. challenges H and fro. Sit Thomas Upton chal- B longed America ror the yachting supremacy B of the world, and as nil the world knows came B to America this year and saw his latest Shamrock meet the same fate M the oilier Shamrocks before her. Robert Gardner went to England and tried for the golf cbampion ship and nly Juki didn't succeed. England B sent her two greatest professional Rollers B to America to compete for the American B ipen championship, and by single stroke B Ar. Ray was successful B We sent n tennis team to England, nnd tennis can claim Hie distinction of the most B successful Invasion of any sport, for we B cleaned up everything before us. and to Mr. B Tlldcn of Philadelphia can 'airly be awarded B the distinction of being: champion of tho world In thw particular branch of sport B Golf tennis and polo and being prejudiced I . I think the latter the greatest ot the trinity. B and it Ms of oik- challenge In the galloping H that T trlah now speak Hankering for the Loit Polo Cup. H As toot) as the war was over and sports- H rren got back to peaceful pursuits we in B this country Immediately began thinking of H the polo cup that England had won from'us B in 19H. and which were hankering to H got back It had been won In 19 I by the fl team representing the Huriingham Club pt B London, and the Polo Association .here !n fl morica informed Hurlfngham thai when- H per i hej i B were prepareii to send it It was not deetilM B advisable to hHve any international polo fl matches In 19J0 put Hurllnghatn the challenge '.or And so next if K"nted for Internatlonalplay and played for In 1S86 for the first lime, when Huriingham. thn leading club of England, sent over a team captained hy that famous spoilsman lb- late Mr John W atson of .Ireland The Co. ions of the CUp call for the best two In three matches to be playeo on the ground and under the rules of the country for the lltne being holders of the cup. England, then, came over In and, won two straight matches from the American team. Which roiuihlted of Mr. W, K. Thorn Mr Raymond Belmont,. Mr Poxhall Reene , and Mr. Thomas Hitchcock. So haek went the English team and took with them the golden trophy on Its first; trip across (he Alia nttc In inon some Americans in England, headed by Mr fuxhnll Kcene. challenged for :he cup. ni one match was played and England won easily by the score of 8 goals to I. On the English team were Capt the Hon J. G. Beresford, now Lord leies. who mar ried Miss Gould, an American girl Mr f". M Kreake. Mr. W S Buokfnastcr and Mr. John Watson. America's team was hastily got tO" gether Jtpd In no way can be considered a typical or representative team. Ii a ,om- poied or Mr. Walter McCfreery at 1. Mr Frank .T Markov al 2. Mr. Foxhall Koeno a: 3 and Mr. Lawrence MeCreory at back The two MrCrecrys were Gnlifornians who had been living for years abroad, and Mr Mackey was an Apwrlcan sportsman whd iis-oii to go a I. road to hunt and plav polo With the exception of Mr Keene this team th.ii represented America in l :oo Was by no tvejth of the Imagination Of Internationa' calibre, j In l'J02 i more thorough challenge was made when Mr Keene took to England the famous Waterbury orothrrs. Mr. ft. I. Agas si, of Boston and Mr. John E. Cowdln. In tit.' first match England had In her llnejJP Mr. c P NVkalls. Mr. P W. Nickalls. Mr W'. Buckmafter and Mr. ('. 1 1 M.ller In MPV 6t M ci, I all gnt- cell w will have an American team at Hurling! r,m in June In try to bring back to this country the cup that has ah cads crossed the water three times. It Is Interesting to look into the history of this International polo cup. It was, presented In ISSO by . the lale Mr! William Waldorf Aslor tc the Westchester I'olo Chjh. This polo club is not In the county of that name, but it is the nann- drS the polo eiUb of Newport,, R. I. It was pre- t he order named. Igalnst this team were Mr. Agassi at 1 Mr. Cowdln at t. Mr. Keene ;.r 3 and Mr. txiwrence Waterbury at book Aim America for Hit- first time since inter national polo had been started won a match beating England y the score of 2 to 1. Kor the second match England changed her line up to a considerable extent. Mr. C. P. Nlckalis was still at No. I for England, but his bratlicr, Mr Pal klekalls. n.is taken off and his place auppllfitd t Mr Freddie l-Veake. Mr. George Miller took Mr. Buck master's piac- it i and Mr Buckmastet 1 1 T i I if' yi i ' feT ,rf i !'?'' Si'' ' i - ' : T. i J. .. . . . i I L. L J t 'rl - 58 D MILBURN, ONE oP AMRRlCKS STA. POLO 1 PLWE.R.S v n'.mself went to back. America likewise .hanged l.er lineup Mr."iIonte Waterbury. who had r.ot played In tho first name, was put in at No. 1 and his brother. Instead Of playing back, went to 2. Mr. Kcene was still, at 3 and Mr, if4nesla went tp tin back posi tion. The change worked to England? benefit and sh won the second game by the easy margin of 6 goals to 1 For the third and deciding maMi America went mi with the swmc lineup that sin- had lor the second gani'e But again Enaiul hangtd her lineup, raving Mr f P. 1r.-k-i.lls Ml 1. Mr. George Miller at Mi P W. N'li kails at 3 and Mr. Buekmaster at back England Wf,n tina match by 7 goals to I. ami so kept the cup. For a period of seven yparj Lhore was no liiteruatipnul polo, and ttien in IHO'j Mi II .". Whlttii-y nude his memorable challenge His was no spasmodii cnulienge, but It WttS, 'II very carefully woi ked out. and fong before tl"- actual Challenge was sent over in. bad been preparing his attack hy getting men and weapons ready. Apiirfialmg the major pari that ponies play In the game In had gathered together 'by years of pains taking effort the finest string of ponies In thf world four men went over from America: he M sera Waterbury. Mr Devereuk Sltlburn anil Mr WhiTw himself In Kngland tliey were loined by Mi. I.ouis E. Stoddard, who was the suhstilutc for the team. In loth mat' hes America's lineup was the same Mr. Lawrence Waterbury ot 1 Mr. Monte Waterbury at 2 Mr. Whitney at 3 and Mr Mllburn ni back In the first malch ' Phantom Ships Still flaunt the Seas r i ' rHE i oast of New K'nglai.ii has mai.y I legends com ernln s cclre shiris fli m ly believed by hc rugged fisherfcen, who assert stoutly that on various occasions 'f glimpses of tli,. skatlO'Vy craft have h-en seen, "followed Invati'aLly by disaster. The spectre ul the PaK-ntlne Is occaslon I L ally seen on the .Sound, und Is the forerun- P tier of n gale. She Mas a Dutch trading ves- Bel and was wrecked off Block Island in 1731:. I he wrecker It in Mid. made ifcort work of hci. stripping her fore and alt and setting tli e 'o the hull Vs she drifted blazing off the coast -a human form was visible amid the flames, the form ot a woman passenger, left to perish on the doomed craft. Since, and generally HI lipon the annu'ersary of the wrecl:. a phan- Hjl torn Khlp witti tilnzlng hull charred spars and scorched sail Dud rigging has been cruising off Block island. v:,i'.tiei recorded the legend In graceful verse, as well as that of a ghostly cruiser flrmt sailed from a New England port on her 1 last voyage, which he termed "Tho Dead Ship of Salem " 1 In the seventeenth century a ship was nbOUt to sail from Sulem Mass., to England Her cargo was on board, sails bent and pas sengers on deck when two strangojrs came hurriedly on board and engaged passage. The couple were a young man ami a young woman, who. tradition records, were remark i hie for their bearing and beauty. Who they were or whence they came no i ne in Salem Town could tell. The ship be mg detained by adverse winds, the mys t tertous couple excited the suspicions of l ho townspeople, who viewed them as uncanny and prophesied disaster to tho vessel if they wire allowed m sail jn her But the master, a grjfT and stern sailor, refused to IKten and finally departed op a Friday The vosel never reached her destination ahc waa never spoken, but later in the e.ir, Incoming vessels reported sighting craft vith luminous rigging and sails and shining hull', and spars. She w is sailing with til canvas set against the wind, with a crew of Spad nun standing in the sh,rouds and lean k over the rail! while on -he quarter dec.-, euod a youna; and beautiful ooupN it Is -aid that the Prem ii fishermen fro.i: trt Magdalen Islands and the matter of fac Yankee skippers of Bangor, Me., alike shun ifir shores of Bay Chaleur after dark an 1 refuse tolgut In at Dead Man s Cove unde r, ciieumstances, preferring to run Ihj risk of foundering in a hurricane !n the v ; an sea to sharing tlm shelter of the cove vith the phantom ship. Tnls famous spectre of the sea Is' said to a; pear only in ihe c-alrn preceding srea" v orm. with every stitch of canvas Rrawfns and her decks swarm.ng with men a:i rug nin; to and fro as if in a panic Ahead f ' the water is like glass, behind her the gale comes- tearing along beating the sea into froth and driving her straight on lilt OUgb every thing In her way. She is in SACl nt model, full rigged and gray t, over hull, upper works, sails' and "pars as if formed of fog. Gray, too. Is her ghastly (.:. w J re inhabitants of St. Pierre tell of , smack on a herring trip that found herself r'fht in the track of the phantom ship. Cap tain and crew had heard of the ghostly ves-st-L but scoffed at it. and when they saw he I" om up in tiie twilight s'ralght ahead they thought a collision Imminent and the atar-Uc- steennpan put the helnxover, The sea -tath swop' down upon them, and in the Mnic n ti' breath had passed right throug.i tbm and was racing ,iadly astem in tha Ii-ectlon of Head Mh'n's Cove, A fishin.: sch-.orier from Magdalen Island, warneJ by the thickening sky of an ap proaching storm; put In at ibe cove to ride ojut the gale. Before she had reached anchorage a ship was seen coming rap'dly beliiud also he.idlug for the rni As it drew tn-ar the captain got out his crass to see If he knew the stranger. Suddenly he dropped to bis knees and commenced to pray "Bojs," he said. "It's a ghost. I saw a sh.i cull fly right throiTgh her ma-nsallV Kv-ry man 'lirtw himself on bis fai c. afraid to look The first to ruse hi) head, and look over the rail was the cabin ooy. ii gel up; gel up, iih of you." he sboulen "Ihe'S gone." The crevy lost no time In making sail out of the covp In the leet i of a black squall. Another tlor is that of a smack from St. Pierre which saw the phantom anchored Just inside the cove- at sunset A smal! boat filled with men was making trips between the gra sliip and tne beach, at each trip unloading boxes and barrels, which other men waiting ashore burled In the sand The capt.V i did not wait to see whether they were interring dead men or chests of treas ure, but got away from Ibe place as tas as he co Jld Old sa:lors along the Maine cons-, firmly believe that the phantom ship is an old merchantman that went down with all on board living to reach (lie cove in a great storm In 175-1 but at St. Pierre the fisher men will tell you that It Is a pirate haunting the spot where the buccaneer crew hid the troasure for widen they lost theii souls. England imi .pt Herbert Wilson, Mr Kreake, Mr. P W. Nlckalis and Lord Wode-,' bouse, and was beaten by America to the tunc of ! goals to 5 After this llrst match England realized that America hud on its team the most sensntlonnl and hardest hit -ling plover who had ever appeared on a polo field. Mr Hv'ereux Milburn. rnl they real ized, unlc-s.s they could stop him, the cup wjr us gcod as lost. So for the seconfl match tbey put In Mr Harry Rich, o very hard tiding No. 1. In place of Capt. Wilson, and at back Ijrd Wodehouse was taken out and Capt. Hardreas Llbyd substituted The change did no good, and In fact America won the second mntoli more easily than she did the first heating England by the score of 8 goals, to L So Ihe American team were ushered up to lb"' royal pflrvilion, and King fl o -e made i little speech and Queen Mary handed to Mr Whitney the cup, which had been at Mtirllngham Just twenty-three years and .which now wnsto cross the ocean foi ihe second time The La:.t Three Challe lgc$. The history of the last three cnallenges can bf mentioned briefly. In 191 1 fjftirltne '. inr ballfhgcd and sent over a team ied by Capt Hardress L'oyd. America had tho Lv.ino team which had been kucce&sful in i!'i''J lined up fwlth the men in their o!-! p ism iocs. The English team lined up with '.'apt. Cheape at 1 Capt. Noel fOdwirds at 2. Capt. Eloyd at 3 arid '"apt. Herbert Wilson at hack. Capt. K W. Barrett came over with the English team, hut he playe I in neither of the tw. games. England making no Chrfnges. Bot matches were very close. America winning the first one by the -score of four and one-half goals to three, and the second one. by the score of four and one-half goals to three nnd a half ir. ion with the Duke of Westminster supplying the, ponies and in general aetir.T as sponsor for the team. Hurllnghum chal lenged ag iin And again the unconquerable four represented America England's team was led by Capt. Jerry Ritson. w ho played at No. 3. On one of his tenm for the first match was Capt. iheape. and at two was Capt. ICdwanls. while Capt. Lockett played back. It wa- a wonderfully hue t,-am. but the Americans heal them live to three. In thin llrst rriitt h Mr Monte Waterbury was hit on the hnnd in the Sixth period and wits forced o retire from th game. Mr. Larry Water bury moved bacW to the position of No. 2. and Mr. Louis StcjMard went in at 1 and pi.iy d sensational polo for ihe rest of th j rn ilcfc In the second match In 1011 England look out Cupt Edwards and put in Mr. Kreake. Mr Monte Waterbury. suffering from a broken finger, was out of it. and Mr Stod dard played and again qlsdnguished him self. Takldg It all in all. this was perhaps as thrillintr and exciting ; in.'ik'h as has ever been played. The heat that day on the ffempstead plains was terrific, and at half time Mr. Freakt was in a collapsed condition. But he was toon revived and played the lost half of the game ,'ust as well as he had Played the first America Just squeezed through winning by the score of 44igoau to Hi- In 1M there Ik another stors I f tell. Lord Wjmbornc bad got together a fine string of ponies ami came over that year with a teom which nine men out of ten considered m lerior t,. the EpglUlh team of 1913 It was captained by Capt Barrett, and when lined up had Capt Thornpklnson at !. Capt. Cheape at -'. Capt. Earrett at 3 and oCapt. - C C RUMSEV. FAMOUS AS Av POLO PLOVER, 3n c i Eockett at back. The American tenm In the meantime had lost the services of Its captain, who had led a team that had never known defeat Mr. Whitney, suffering from a bad .urn was unable to play, and Mr. Stoddard for personal reasons was not playing polo that year. Mr Mqnte WaAerbury had been elected '"aptaiq and the American team when lined up had Mr. Iiene La Montague at No. 1. Mr Monte Waterbury at No. - Mr. Mllburn being tried out at No. 3 and Mr L Waterbury at back. The Englishmen put up a much htter game than any one sup posed them capable of and won the first match handily. In tho second match Mr. l-jrry Waterbury went to No. 3 and Mr. Milburn to ids old place at back. In a sen sational match America lost and Lord Wim borne took the cup back to England. Now it is up to us to tiring back the et:: oor he water again to the land of It? birth. It 's n highly expensive thing to go after th- international polo cup. but it Is also i c than that.' To win It pr pirations mu'' he started months before ;he games takt I lai . Ponies are at least fifty or can! li)G game and as far as I can see pmles Wat J921 are going to cut a bigger tlgun tha'i OVSI before. The teams ar very evenly ni 'tehed and It Is quite possible that ponied will be the deciding factor The English learn will projnblj lit:- up with Lieut1'"' Thornpklnson r Lo d Dttlmeny at 2; Witt Lord Wodehouse at 3 nnd Major Ickelt I'. ck America will probably taki '. i England the following six players. Mr. L. JH i; fteddard, Mr. c. c. Runuey, Mr. J u Webb. Mr. T. Hitchcock. Jr., Mr J C. Cow. mV din and Mr. bever"iix Mill: urn. I should say i ' RV five players will go Over next spring, as jH dung Mr. Hitchcock will probb!; be aver LbV there. He already has salh-d for EnglMiJ. expecting to go ro Brnnenose College. Ot i' id Mr R, B Strawhrldge, a member ?f International Polo Committee, will be tn H . u-r..l this winter and v i II stay over tie' jB ,iri:ig so that there will he seven players when the Americana mar' practising H I'll. P'irilis prohahli go over In He- rLfl comber or January 'n charge of John Lam bert, who has had a long experience with horses, first as trainer for Mr. Thorns Hitchcock's stable of steeplechasers, and la the last two years with Mr. H P. Whitney's polo ponies Ip nil probability there will be .something like fifty ponies taken over, the pick of all the stables of America. The vftlne of these nonles could be roughly estimated, hut In reality they arc priceless. for no money can buy them. When men get BB superlatively good polo ponies, nothing SLV Would tempt them to sell them. They are too jH rare a thing to part with unless In case of LBI necessity. But. with fln sportsmanship. B players from all over the country have sent Hl on their ponies for the international com- . mlttee to try, and If they ee fit. to tak ttd them to England Thlr only remark Is B that nothing would give tiiem greater B pleasure than to have their ponies consul- B ered good enough to be selected i man with no possible chance to make an International 'e.nn who plays only very Br medio re ,'""i!o. m.-i- h chance a V nmns.hlpg pony; and he is supremely de- V lighted to think that ne may have the chanc to go to Hurling I inc. and watch I i !-ii pohv with an American international W i player on his back. If. In sorr.e race for the I i ball, his pony Was to heal out som English tJ MM antagonist he would, r am sure get quite as much pleasure from t lie incident as does H Mr P.lddle when he sees Man o' War ga Wft booming to victory sS Make Up of Committee i ii iffairs 'if this challengt for L'-'i have S In , n placed by the Polo Association in Cm s 11-io.s of a committee composed of Mr. H :'. fl n hi n Mr R E Str iwbr dgi Mi D f Mllburn and Mr. L E. Stcddard Tteirs It trc duty to select the players that will ii any rate start in for America and the ponies 1 that those players wd! ride I Put before players nnd ponies go on tr I fleiC at Hurllngliam a thousand details hav I t i ' p straightened out The ponies have ts 1 i A bo shipped across the ocean in mid-winter. 1 . inC that is no light task. In a stable o' ? h rhea, when one fails si,ii it ;( always th- I Deal "ne And so none must fall sick S:o' f: I dies end bridles and boots and bandages ard TBMetfSi'i ;ll the various piraphernnlla have to b BB taken over, a supply of horseshoes and a Hj .ornpetent blacksmith. Proper stabling h'.s LBH-tf o Yf provided In England and the ironies IJ wncehed With the greatest solicitude us thej fBfBb'1 hecr-me acclimatized. The players will g ILflRL i 0V in April and the can tnl e car1 J It t nenvelves, but the ponies ha c to be ooke i LBsfiViJ I after. Well genius means taking infinite amRi " pair.s and the genius of America will bj LBpliSM c ilki on to lor.k after the ponies BKBZd To get i onlea fl 111 a strange climate Is ml no easy tusk, and unless the ponies are lit B 5 5 -! all he skill and courage and hard ridin aS t ' ubilitlea of the American plavers go for f"fc'l nut'uitig Tiie ponies are the ammunltlo.- Bi ' and the old adage still holds good "Trust In B" aij' God ind keep your powder dry." arrfWr Prehistoric Mosquitoes in Amber H NEARBY States have long suffered the opprobrium of producing iarge crops of vicious mosquitoes, but happily that notoriety Is diminishing through the use. of modern methods for their esterqiination. If the iniproreme.it continues there is ground for believing . that It will h'e necessary to visit a museum to find out what the Insects locked like. I lo re are specimens Still to be found, how er. and some were recently discovered in a very unusual manner In New York, on the nost famous street in the world. Is a Curio shop where among other atrange things sold as souvenirs are small pieces of amber cut into squares and rectangles of different thicknesses nnd suggesting diminutive blocks of brown sugai The odd feature ahout these little pieces ot amber Is that each one contains an In ject, preserved In the amber and so nicely displayed that It Is almost uncanny to sec them delicately poised in the glassy, trans lucent material. Every one known in a general way that amber is a rosin found In the ground of IBf Jhm2 wir.ous localities bordering tiie Baltic Sea C I Perhaps it is not so well known that Its aBiLfiSl n was similar to the gum that exude "flf ' from cherry' trees, but- amler belongs to a aa3RI bygone ago and the trees that produced It St. disappeared long ago. The vegetable origin rM Is proved by its being found with coal, or ft jfS fossil wood, and also by the insects found f In it. A In some of the specimens insects with J wings and legs separated from the bodies HUxiS a W uld seem to Indicate their struggles to free HSw 3 themselves from the then vlscoufs fluid. As bF4 more gum exuded the insects would l,rAm completely encased, und as such gums aro LBl'-s- aromatic and therefore preservative against aki'' decay, trees, gum and 'nsects have become LKLiJ buried in the earth by convulsions of naturo bBsbbkW and fossilized in time by re,, logical proceacs. bLVH The specimens of prchlstorn mosquitoes thus Ll 'tpTl preserved bear a striking resemblance to UM ) those of to-dav BfVS Amber was known 'o (be ancients, who aBE&x;S early discovered Its electricul properties: in LhbSU iact. they named it electron. Whence, our B" ' f word electricity.