Poloists Gird For Big Red Embroglio Tomorrow Night In Ithaca Armory

The galloping ghost of Tommy Hitchcock might be haunting the Cornell armory tomorrow night, for the Crimson mallet wielders meet the Big Red polo team in an indoor match.

For Harvard polo squads, indoor play will be an innovation. It is played on a far smaller area, puts a greater emphasis on control, and has one less man on a team. The play is further complicated by a dirt instead of grass surface, and the miserable lighting inherent in every armory.

The polo team, hard pressed financially, will send only four men to the match, or just enough for a full team and a sub, Captain Sandy Calhoun, Emory Houghton, and Emil Van Peborgh are slated to start with Tom Calhoun as reserve.

But by far the greatest difficulty for Poloists is the lack of steeds, for as every fan knows you can't play a chukker without a pony. Cornell has agreed to supply the Crimson quartet with horses out of the bountiful supply on hand at its agricultural school. No one is sure yet whether these boasts will be truck horses or aged polo ponies, for the Big Red did give over its polo horses to the farmers during the war.

A note of color will be added to the Harvard squad by Van Peborgh who halls from Buenos Aires and plays polo in gancho garb.

Next week the team has arranged a match with Williams at Williams town to close out the fall season.