INTERCOLLEGIATE POLO ASSOCIATION FORMED

Application has been received by the United States Polo Association for the forming of a new polo organization which shall include eight universities and which shall be known as the Intercollegiate Polo Association. This step has been necessitated by the tremendous popularity which polo has enjoyed in the last two years on account of the innovation of the intercollegiate championship tournament. This tournament was started by Major General Robert Lee Bullard for the benefit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps units in the various eastern colleges, and it has been sponsored thus far by the Second Corps Area. Now, however, as Colonel William N. Haskell, polo representative of the Second Corps Area, explained at the meeting at which the Intercollegiate Folo Association was formed, the tournament has outgrown the facilities which the military authorities are able to offer. After the first year of the competition, polo has proved so popular that students not in the R. O. T. C. have taken up the game, and colleges not included in the area of the Second Army Corps have expressed the desire to play in the later collegiate tournament.

Colleges Ought to Organize

This year, in view of the fact that he felt unable to cope with the greatly increased demands upon all facilities which polo has made. Major General Charles P. Summer all recommended that the intercollegiate polo tournament be sponsored in the future by the United States Polo Association. The suggestion was put forward at the recent meeting and was favorably received by Louis E. Stoddart. Chairman of the United States A Polo Association. He suggested as a further step, however, that the colleges them selves should organize and become a member association of the national body.

This suggestion met with the complete approval of the college delegates present at the meeting and in short order a constitution with bylaws was drawn up, officers were elected, the further formalities of organization were completed and application was made for membership in the United States Polo Association.

Eight Colleges on List

The colleges in the Intercollegiate Association and their representatives are as follows: G. M. Carnochan, Harvard; Major V. A. Arnold, Yale; Alvin Devereux, Princeton; Major Harding Polk. Virginia Military Institute; Lient. Col. Frank H. Hyatt. Pennsrivania Military College; Colonel Frank B. Edwards, Norwich University; Major A. W. Helderness. West Point; and Major R. E. Anderson. Cornell. The officers of the new organization are Alvin Devereux. President; G. M. Carnochan, Secretary-preasunder; F. S. o'Reilly, Assistant Secreisis Tressurer.

A discussion was held of the place and time for the 1925 polo tournament, but no definite decision was made other than that it should take place in June instead of in May as formerly. The use of polo grounds has been offered by Penusivauia Military College, the United States Polo Association, the Crescent Athletic Club, and the Westchester Bilinger Country Club.