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Show Cecil Smith Regains Ten GoalRating Cecil Smith, the Texas cowboy, today to-day was back on the polo pinnacle ranked on the national handicap list at 10 goals along with Stewart Iglehart and Tommy Hitchcock, only other two players In the world above nine goals. For the mallet-wielding plains-man plains-man attaining the peak in the an nual ratings announced yesterday by the United Statea Polo association associa-tion was the climax to a climb started after he alipped from 10 goals in 1934 to nine in 1939. Ha fell to eight in 1934 and was back at nine this year. Clinches Position He clinched for himself a plare beside Iglehart and Hitchcock, both (Continued on Following Page) Cecil Smith Gets Ten-Goal Rank (Continue frees preceding Page) of Long Island, by hia play at No. 2 position for old Westbury, which won the national open and the Mont Waterbury memorial tournaments tourna-ments In September. Th husky product of the ranches around Llano, Texas, lifted his game to a new level of brilliance and daring in preliminaries and finals of the major fixtures. Iglehart, also a member of the Westbury team, and Hitchcock, who rode with Greentree, beaten final-iat final-iat in both tournaments, simply retained re-tained 10-goal handicaps as expected. ex-pected. Thus Iglehart Is a 10-goal man for the second straight year and a high handicap player since 1829. while Hitchcock continues a 10-goal reign started in 122 and broken only in 1933, when he slipped to nine. In other changes made by the association, Mike Phipps and Sonny Whitney, who, with Smith and Iglehart, Igle-hart, completed the Westbury quartet, quar-tet, also were affected, Phipps being raised from eight goals to nine and Whitney from four to five. Jock Whitney, Greentree leader, was dropped from six goal to five. Nine-Goal Rating The only other player rated with Phlppa at nine goal on th American Amer-ican list is Captain C. T. I. Roark of England, who participated in the major tournament as a member of an American lineup. The Argentine Argen-tine players, as outsiders, were not ranked. Four players hold down the eight-goal eight-goal class, Eric Pedley. Billy Post, Gerald Balding and Eric Tyrrell-Martin. Tyrrell-Martin. Pedley, who, along with Elmer Boeseke and Aldan Roark, is among the top hands In California, was reduced from nine, while th latter lat-ter two wer reduced from eight to seven. |