INTERNATIONAL POLO.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 2

INTERNATIONAL POLO.

WHY ENGLAND LOST. ANTIQUATED NOTIONS. (Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, June 18. The Times correspondent says that the English polo team oulp.ayed incir American opponents tor the most part, and u tne wueel of fortune had turned their way ha is positive thin the Englishmen v.ou.u have won the deciding game. The Americans were at the top of their form, and tho visitors were training on. in a leading article- the Times says: “No Englishman will hesitate to say that America deserved her victory. Six times in ■’succession we have been beaten lamy and squarely by America in the game we introduced to ‘tne rest of the wor.eL “The success of America is due to the organising genius of men like Mr W. I*. Wuitney, who, like all his countrymen, is not handicapped by preconceived ideas. "On Lie other hand, the English chances of victory were handicapped by precisely the opposite quality, inis is typical of much of our attitude towards sport.’’

While British riding-masters are deploring the decadence of British horsemanship, especially as displayed in Rotten Ho«—winch is described as “the galloping ground for ungainly and untrained riders who hunch their backs and lean forward on their horses' heads, sacrificing a.l stylo and grace to speed"—their colleagues in America arc frankly exu.tuig in a “new ora of American horsemanship''. Commenting on the statement ascribed to Air Frank G. Haines, riding-master to the King, that since the end of the South

African War horsemanship in England has steadily deteriorated,’’ Air David 15. Rintoid, proclaimed the best-known instructor in New York, proclaims his conviction that America now boasts the finest horsemanship in the world, “i am persuaded,’’ he says, “that the next polo match will show conclusively that the American rider has outclassed his English brother. Riding is more popular hero than abroad, and it is growing in favour every year, women especially are realising that it imbues them with the spirit of youth,’’