Monday, Sep. 24, 1923

A Gallery

There was a blare of trumpets at Westbury, L. I., and John Wingate Weeks, Secretary of War, appeared before a crowd of 10,000 people. Others present were Mrs. Rene La Montagne, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, II, Major General Mason M. Patrick, Harry Payne Whitney, John S. Phipps, Brigadier General Hugh H. Drum. It was a gay assemblage, in holiday attire.

The assemblage included Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. J. E. Smith Hadden, Mrs. Sidney Fish, Mrs. Hinman Bird, Miss Kitty P. Smith, General John J. Pershing. The gay throng surged about the place.

Among the visitors were Major General J. G. Harbord, Major General Robert Lee Bullard, Lady Armstrong, Congressman Hicks, Walter Camp, Jr. Waving flags dotted the scene.

This great ensemble of Society and hoi polloi is a composite picture of the great crowd which three times visited Meadow Brook field to see the international military polo championship between the teams of the U.S. and Great Britain.

The Americans won the first game, 10-7. The Britishers won the second, 12-10; the Americans, the third, 10-3.

-- A " senior " is any golfer over 55 years of age.