College Polo

Racing, swerving, magnificent ponies . . . sweating flanks, bruised shins, slashing mallets . . . that is why polo has suddenly jumped into the ranks of spectacular college sports.

The Intercollegiate Polo Championship was decided last week at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. Yale had outridden and out-scored Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania Military College. Harvard, with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game--except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches.