PUBLICITY ESSENTIAL TO MAKE POLO POPULAR

"If a young man is once inoculated with the polo germ, he never recovers, he will play the game the rest of his life," asserted Devereux Milburn, famous internationalist player in an interview with the CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Milburn, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is one of three ten-goal handicap men in the country and is considered by experts to be the game's greatest exponent.

"Polo, unfortunately, is an expensive game," asserted Mr. Milburn, "but for large colleges it is as capable of paying its way as football. As a sporting spectacle it contains all the elements of speed, skill, and physical contact that are appreciated by an American audience.

"The problem of popularizing polo at Harvard or any other college is simply that of obtaining enough publicity and getting men initially interested. The attractions of the game, I am sure, will hold anyone once acquainted with them. It is very much to the interest of the game that polo at colleges should become organized. The number of players developed by private clubs and by the army is comparatively limited; the need is for an increased supply of young poloists, trained in intercollegiate matches and ready to reinforce the veterans."