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Show NOBLE PATRi OF Lord Ashby St. Ledger Having Hard Time Getting Expert Polo Players for International In-ternational Game. London, March 2S. Rumors are rife that all is not well with Lord Ashby St. Ledger's organization of a polo team which will make another attempt to bring the international cup back to England. It is said that the noble patron of the turf game is having trouble in getting men for his team, Captain Gerald Ritson, who led the English team last year will be in India In-dia with his regiment when the matches take place at Meadowbrook In June, and so will not be able to participate. It does not seem likely that Captain Cap-tain Leslie St. George Cheape. England's Eng-land's greatest No. 1. will play on Lord St. Ledger's team; nor is Captain Cap-tain Hardress Lloyd likely to lead the challengers In June. Of the Duke of Westminsters six challengers last year Captain Vivian Lockett is the only probable member of this year's team, and he Is not certain. None of Captain Lloyd's splendid 1911 quartet quar-tet will return on this year's team, which apparently is to be built around j his two substitutes, Captain "Rat-j ties" Borrett and Captain E. W. Palmes, who was a lieutenant then. Polo Team Hard to Get. It seems to be a case of "many arc called, but few get up.' Several fine players have been invited to join this year's polo expedition but some how it hangs fire at present. Another incident which has created quite a bit of discussion,, relates to the engagement of E. G. B. Fltzham-on, Fltzham-on, the expert polo writer from California Cali-fornia to r.eport the games for the field, as he did last year. His re-engagement re-engagement is made with the proviso "if the expedition comes off' In the meantime Several English poloists are now in Madrid, where King Alfonso has donated the use of his private park for the purposes of practice. There Is some feeling against the Englishmen's training in Spain and practicing with Spanish and French horsemen. Such a course, it is said, gives the contest too much of a flavor of Europe against America Amer-ica rather than England against America. |