Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-06-09 | Page 2 | Preparing for Polo Match

PREPARING FOR POLO MATCH New York. June 9 This was farrier's far-rier's day in the camps of the American Amer-ican and English polo players at the Meadowbrook country club. In preparation pre-paration for the international cup series which begins tomorrow The strings of ponies which the American defenders and the English challengers challen-gers hold ready for the fray, about 100 in all, were all newly shod, although al-though neither side will probablv use more than a score of their valuable mounts in the first match The eleventh hour decision to reinstate rein-state the old cup defending team as this year's defenderB was welcomed by the American enthusiasts today as a wise move The action was taken t' assure combination and team play which might have been lost if Harry Payne Whitney had been obliged to lead a team of substitutes after hav-' ing practiced so much with his old four Whitney and the Waterbury brothers had originally conceded the wisdom of the substitution of Keene. 1 L E. Stoddard and Malcolm Steven- I son. as the former had on some oca-slons oca-slons failed to play with their usual brilliancy. Whitney had been ill with Indigestion and the Waterbury's were OmtYWhal out of form. The general approval of experts had been attested by a sift In the oddB which were said today to be practical! even