Show POLO OX WHEELS YlrES A Novel Use For thc Bike WhIch Was Not r Startling Success Tell you what It is fellahs recently cently remarked a member of a live English club during a discussion upon polo the bicycle is the ideal polo pony he is fair to lok upon as the lilies of the field but better than that he Is willing to toil and to spin and he costs nothing for training feeding and attendance From thia sagacious remark resulted an experiment at once novel exciting andit the truth must be told disap pointing Eight experts in cycling and polo formed two teams to test the usefulness of the wheel as a substitute for the polo pony and a match was played In it the players filled the usual positions of poloi e two forwards for-wards a halfback and a back I did not take the players long to discover that the silent steed was not in i The wheels were fast enough and handy enough for certain plays but one grand requisite was entirely lacking The wonderful intelligence of the trained polo pony which keeps l the little eager aamals in class pursuit pur-suit of the ball and helps many a rider to avoid a smash was conspicuous conspicu-ous by Its absence The remark The pony plays better than his rider could not be applied to the bike A smart pony can be trusted to perform many necessary evolutions without the aid of his rider while the wheels require the closest kind of attention This alone is quite sufficient to unfit the bike for real lively polo An upset to a pony seldom means more than the most trifling damage while the consequences I conse-quences are apt to be disastrous to a I wheel The difficulty of finding suitable grounds and the natural objection of good wheelmen to risking their necks and wheels in such a doubtful pastime pas-time will effectually prevent polo on wheels from becoming one of our popular pop-ular amusements The reckless westerner west-erner may carry out his threat of coursing antelope and jackrabbit over the plains upon wheels but the polo pony will have no cause to fear the rivalry of the pneumatic |