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Show BIG FOUR START POLO PRACTICE New York, April 4. With Harry Payne Whitney, Devc-reux Mllburo and Larry and Monty Waterbury, the old members of the Big Four in international in-ternational polo, on hand, active practice prac-tice for the coining match he started today at Lakewood, N, J. Foxall P. Keene, Malcolmn Stevenson, Louis Stoddard, Rene La Montagnc, Howard How-ard Phipps and a score of lesser known players were also on the field. Nothing has yet been done regarding regard-ing the make up of the team. ' The Big Four will aid in practice but tho chances of their forming a combina tion for the defense of the international interna-tional cup is not at all probable. About thirty-five ponies are at the disposal of the players and are in charge of Larry Fitzpatrick. who has trained polo ponies for many -years. Whitney has contributed nearly twenty twen-ty of the mounts, August Belmont three, Louis Stoddard five, Malcolm Stevenson two. Devereux Milburn five, while two come from Hawaii. The players will practice at Lake-wood Lake-wood until the beginning of next month, when they will take the ponies to Westbury, L. I., for the finishing fin-ishing touches. The string of ponies will be further augmented by mounts from Philadelphia and Boston. The first practice game is scheduled sched-uled for April 20. rr . |