Sport: 47th National

Oldtime patrons of Manhattan’s National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another’s hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association’s new president, J. Spencer

Weed, expected that because of these innovations the show would make money for the first time in many years. The regular program of the National Horse Show was not seriously impaired by such novelties. Among the 36 events for saddle horses, 34 for harness horses. 17 for hunters, and 19 jumping events were distributed most of the best U. S. show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble’s veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney’s string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox’s bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty’s Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore’s famed Seaton Pippin, world’s champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State’s string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military Sweepstakes. As a 4-year-old—the bones of Irish horses develop early, thanks to limestone in their native soil—Shannon Power (named after a power-house on the Shannon river) won the Davis Cup at Toronto last year, starred in other international contests. His rider, small curly-haired Captain Daniel J. Corry of the Irish Free State Army, takes special pride in his own jumping pony. First Attempt, a little grey gelding who caught cold in Boston last month, spent most of last week coughing and munching apples in his stall.