From Hurlingham

Six swart Britishers debarked from the S. S. Minnetonka from London, were propelled by motor to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. They had come, via London, from India, where they are officers in the British Army. It was to them that Great Britain's polo organization, Hurlingham, had assigned the task of winning the Westchester cup, emblematic of international championship. Since 1921 it has rested in the U. S.

The six stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of individual star players. The manager, Col. H. A. Tomkinson, said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies are in condition." The men--Maj. Eric G. Atkinson (captain of the team), Maj. Austin H. Williams, Capt. Claude E. Pert, Capt. Richard George, Lieut. Humphrey P. Guinness-- kept in condition by heaving medicine balls around the decks of the Minnetonka. Which of these five will be selected for the team of four is not yet decided. Their form on the fast U. S. fields will determine the matter. One other, however, will probably swing a British mallet when the team takes the field. He is Capt. C. T. I. Roark, an Irishman, connected with the British Army in India merely by reason of his membership in the reserve corps. Captain Atkinson and Manager Tomkinson must decide before September, when the matches are scheduled, whether the team works better as a unit when composed of four men who have played through a whole year together, or when aided by the comparatively strange but acknowledgedly brilliant Captain Roark. Their decision will in measure hang upon the opinion and advice of H. H. the Maharajah of Rutlam, himself a keen, able player, who travels with the officers as companion, enthusiast, patron. Most prominently mentioned among those who may be selected by the U. S. Polo Association to represent the U. S. next September are Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Devereux Milburn, Louis E. Stoddard, J. Watson Webb, Malcolm Stevenson, J. Cheever Cowdin, Earle W. Hopping and Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.