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CHAPTER XIII. 



POLO ABROAD. 



United States of America — California — Argentina — The Colonies — France — 



Russia. 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Polo was started in America by Mr. James Gordon 

 Bennett in 1876. I see in The Boston Herald, that 

 ''he and Messrs. Herman Oelrichs, Frederick Bron- 

 son, Col. William Jay, Fairman Rogers, F. Gray 

 Griswold, G. R. Fearing, W. P. Douglas, Sir Bach 

 Cunard, Lord Mandeville, S. S. Howland, Hollis 

 Hunnewell, John Mott, W. K. Thorn and others 

 practised first in the old Dickel Riding Academy, 

 and later on Mr. Bennett's private grounds near 

 Jerome Park, Fordham. These gentlemen organised 

 the Westchester Polo Club and played at Newport the 

 following season, while Mr. H. L. Herbert and Messrs. 

 Howard Stokes, W. W. Robbins, C. A. Robbins, 

 Arthur Sewell, H. J. Montague, Capt. Grierson, G. 

 W. Elder and Adolph Ladenburg established the 

 New Brighton Polo Club at Long Branch. The last 

 mentioned organisation played also at the Fair 

 Grounds, Freehold, N.J., before an audience of some 

 5,000 people. Next the members of the Narragansett 



