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Rutherford, J. D. Cheever, E. La Montague, Albert 

 Francke, R. T. Francke, A. C. Tower, Farley Clark, 

 J. S. Stevens, H. L. Herbert, W. K. Thorn, Oliver 

 W. Bird, R. D. Winthrop, J. L. Kernochan, Stanley 

 Mortimer, Sidney Dillon Ripley, E. D. Morgan, F. O. 

 Beach, James M. Waterbury E. C. Potter, C. Oliver 

 Iselin and the writer of these lines. 



" Thus the sport in the East stood during the seasons 

 immediately prior to 1885, when a team was organised 

 at Harvard College by Messrs. Raymond Belmont, 

 Edgerton Winthrop, Oliver Bird and Amos French. 

 Yale College does not appear to have organised a 

 team. 



" It was during the summer of 1885 that polo found a 

 footing in the West, the first club being established at 

 Lemars, la., by Messrs. Maclagan, Watson, Grayson, 

 Moreton, Pardoe and Richards. Mr. Maclagan later 

 assisted Messrs. Benson, Dodsworth, Orde and Gray 

 to organise a club at Sibley, la., and this was followed 

 by the formation of a club at Colorado Springs, Col., 

 by Mr. J. S. Stevens, of the Rockaway team, assisted 

 by Messrs. Lyle, Braggiotti, and others. In 1886 Mr. 

 H. L. Herbert organised a team at Orange, N.J. 

 This club formed the nucleus of the Essex County 

 oro'anisation. 



" It was in 1886 that the international match occurred 

 at Newport between members of the English Hur ling- 

 ham Club and a quartet of American players. On the 

 English team were Mr. John Watson, Hon. R. Law^ley, 

 Messrs. T. Hone and Malcolm Little, with Mr. C. Lamb- 

 ton as umpire. The American players were Messrs. 

 Thomas Hitchcock, jun., W. K. Thorn, jun., Raymond 

 Belmont and Foxhall Keene, their umpire being Mr. 



