298 POLO ABROAD. [Chap. XIII. 



Gun Club took up the game, Messrs. Pierre Lorillard, 

 jun., E. W. Davis and Carroll Bryce being associated 

 with Mr. James Gordon Bennett and others. The 

 Messrs. Gary and Hamlin, of Buffalo, then organised a 

 club, and a branch of the Westchester organisation 

 played under the name of the Queen's County Club on 

 Long Island, Messrs. August Belmont, F. Gray Gris- 

 wold, Herman Oelrichs, Elliott Zobrowski and others 

 being among the first to play. 



''The first match between clubs in public was that 

 which took place June 21, 1879, i^ Prospect Park, 

 Brooklyn, members of the Westchester and Queen's 

 County Clubs participating. The game was witnessed 

 by upwards of 10,000 persons. The Westchester 

 team, which won, consisted of Messrs. Harry Oelrichs, 

 August Belmont, Carroll Bryce, William C. Sanford 

 and H. L. Herbert. The Queen's County players 

 were Messrs. F. Gray Griswold, Herman Oelrichs, 

 F. T. Iselin, Pierre Lorillard, jun., and Center 

 Hitchcock. 



" The following year saw the opening of the Man- 

 hattan Polo Club grounds at Sixth Avenue and One 

 Hundred and Tenth Street, New York. This field 

 took the place of the old Jerome Park ground for a 

 couple of seasons, but this in turn was also given up, 

 and local interest in polo, so far as public matches were 

 concerned, seems to have ceased for a time. At 

 Meadow Brook and Rockaway Country Clubs the 

 game had, however, become a great favourite with the 

 members, who organised teams and practised assidu- 

 ously. A club was also formed at Pelham. Among 

 the players at these clubs were August Belmont, jun., 

 Thomas Hitchcock, jun., Foxhall P. Keene, Winthrop 



