Evening star. [volume], July 26, 1937, Page B-2, Image 18

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In the Hunt Country
Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of
Virginia and Maryland.
BY NINA CARTER TABB.
POLO team from Harrisburg,
Pa., came to Virginia on Sat
urday to play the Fauquier
Loudoun polo team two games
and was defeated in both. On Sat
urday at Marshall Field, Harrisonburg
was beaten by the Virginians with a
score of 8-6. The line-up for Harris
burg was Dr. L. T. Hempt (1), Forrest
Hempt (2), Smith (3), and Frown
felter (4).
The Harrisburg team stayed at the
Warren Green Hotel in Warrenton
on Saturday and its members were en
tertained by the Virginia Club with a
dinner party in the grill room that
night, where both teams and a few
guests had a very jolly evening.
The Fauquier-Loudon line-up was
John Rawlings (1 >. Henry Skmker
<2>. Rodney Woodward (3), John
Walker (4). On Sunday the same
♦earn, with the exception that Dirk
Kirkpatrick played No. 3 position in
place of Woodward, played an exciting
game on Phipps Goose Creek Field.
Fauquier-Loudon won again with a
•oore of 8-5. A large crowd attended
both contests. The w'eather was per
fect and the fields in good condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Phipps enter
tained the players and eome extra
gueets at a buffet supper after the
gama and the Harrisburg people then j
motored back to Harrisburg.
Mr. and Mrs Jay S Phipps flew down ■
from Long Island yesterday in time
to aee the game played on Phipps 1
Field. They are staving at their!
house, the Mill, and will fly to!
Saratoga tomorrow to take In sev
eral days ol racing. Maj. Burt of
the Remount Station at Front Royal
assisted Dr. Crump as referee of the
polo games on Saturday and Sunday.
The Fauquier-Loudoun polo team
will play in a tournament in Wash
ington the end of this week. No
game has been arranged to be played
here yet, although there may be one.
There were a number of cocktail
parties and supper parties given after
the polo game on Sunday. Among
those entertaining were Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Frost, Mrs. Henry Fairfax, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Baird, Mr. and Mrs.
Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. Turner Wilt
shire and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabin.
Henry Skinker of The Plains, one
of the best players of the Virginia
team, is playing very brilliantly this
season. Of the eight goals made
in the game on Saturday “Denny"
shot seven of them. The Fauquier
Loudoun team will go to White Sul
phur Springs in August to play several
games.
'■pwo most delightful dances were
given here the past week end.
On Friday night the large dance given
in Leesburg at the Thomas Balch
Library was one of the best parties
that has been given here for a long
time. The young girls looked so lovely
and there seemed to be about two
young men for earn girl, which al
ways makes s dance a success. Those
giving the dance were Misses Janet
Harrison. Sarah Harrison, Helen
Corbell, Ada Perry Gibson, Clare
Briggs. Leila Harrison. Emily Lewis,
Fanny Lyon. Mary Owen Lyon, Mary
Metzger. Betty Musgrave. Nancy
Rogers. Mary Rust, Betsy Rust, Jane
Rust, Caroline Rust, Peggy Wilmer,
Hebe Waters. Mrs. Mary Bowie Wright,
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Williams, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Patton, John Alex
ander, Billy Baily, Mervin Bly, John
Gibson, Sterling Harrison. Powell Har
rison, Jr.; Fred Lintner, Miles Leflerts,
Frank Littleton, Jr.; Fred Malone,
Baylor Metzger, George Martin, Wil
liam Martin. Elmon Miller, jr.;
Charles White, w. F. Rust, Jr., and
W. S. Rust. Chaperoning the dance
were Mr*. William Rust, Mrs. Charles
Harrison, Mrs. Westmoreland Davis
and Mrs. P. A. Wilmer.
Mr. and Mrs. George Locke Howe
gave a small dance on Saturday night
at the stone bungalow they are rent*
lng near Middleburg for the 8ummer.
A number of their friends motored
out from Washington for the party
and every one had a delightful time.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bishop of Bos
ton are visiting Mr. and Mr*. Reginald
Bishop at Mount Defiance, near Mld
dleburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharp, sr., en
tertained a number of friends at din
ner on Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney
have opened their lovely house at
Saratoga for the month of August.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur White and
Mrs. White's daughter, Miss Bettina
Belmont, have taken a house at Sara
toga for the racing season and will
go there this week. Others from Vlr
(ini* who are at the Spa for the open
ing day. today, are Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Gilpin, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Friendly. Mrs. Randolph Scott, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry McCombs Bangs. Miss
Cynthia Bangs, William Hitt, Mr. and
Mrs. Dion Kerr and Mike Kerr.
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Exposition in Colombia.
Pereira, Colombia, will hold Its
Orand National Exposition from De
cember 12, 1936. to January 9, 1938.
ARMY WILL TEST GAS
CONCOCTED BY STUDENT
Iowa State Undergraduate Says
Poison Mixture Will De
stroy Masks.
By the Associated Previ,
The Army expressed willingness to
day to give "serious consideration" to
a poison gas on which J. Leon Prenn,
chemistry student at Iowa State Col
lege, has been working.
Prenn expressed belief yesterday that
he has perfected a gas which will
destroy gas masks
"We are not going to say a miracle
doesn't exist until we have watched
It perform," said a chemical warfare
officer, who added that the Army has
no details on Prenn s discovery, but
will be glad to look it over if Prenn
submits It.
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