New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
'POLO|STS IN FAST PLAY
international Four Takes Cups
from the RockaWays.
FIERCE RIDING TIE RULE
John C.. Cowdin Sustains Broken
Nose in the Midst OF
Hard Conflict.

In stirring polo match, filed with
rough riding and maliet work. by which
one player was severely injured. the inter
national four. wearing the colors Of Mead
ou Brook, won the Cedarhurst Challenge
Cup Yesterday in the final match on the
field OF the Rockaway Hunting Club. at
Cedarhurst Long Island The Meadow
Brook team overwhelmed its old rivals, the
Rockaways in the contest by the net score
of goals to IA
Rarely has the fashionable gallery OF
polo enthusiasts been larger than that
which gathered about the field and on the
clubhouse veranda. Seldom has 1t watched
moro desperate riding and fercely fought
scrimmages. II was in one of these that
John E. Cowdin received a CHANGING blow
in the face by a mallet that broke the
ZONES Of his nose. The accident happened
near the end of the seventh period. The
riders were in full chase of the ball, and
as Cowdin and another player reached 1t
at the same moment their mallets cracked
together as each strove for hit
Cowdins mallet reached the ball first
and his opponents sweep took an upward
glancing stroke along the malacca handle
so that before the player could check him
self the blow struck full in Cowdin's face
fell from his pony. The match was stopped
and the injured player was half carried
from the field. Exhibiting all of the spirit
Of the, daring polo player. however. he in
sisted playing out the match after he
had been patched up and had recovered
from his dazed condition.
From the beginning the mad saIlops of
the riders in squirting their ponies at one
another full tilt in the riding of caused
the crowd TO expect accidents. Strangely
enough, R. L. AgaSsiz, the referee, Stoned
averse tc calling fouls, not one being called
during the match. that without the re-
straint of penalty the men took all kinds
OF chances as the game went on.
There was good reason for this. as the
two teams were tied for the cup. Meadow
| Brook having the 1908 leg 1t and Rock
away the 1909 leg. But the four that were
| In for Rockaway had not had the ad-
| vantage OF playing together, while the In
ternational men were ripe for the fastest
| sort of polo. They played 1T 1t was
Cowdin that woke them up in the first
period by scoring fine goal after swift
gallop. That put the Meadow Brooks on
edge. Both Monte Waterbury and Harry
Payne Whitney soon Tailed. and there
after the pace was hot one.
In the fourth and fifth periods the game
was one succession of charges up and down
the field IN pursuit of the ball The riding
was the sort that made the game spec
tacular, but 1t was too fast for goal hit
ting, and the two periods went without a
tally by either side.
In the sixth period ]. S. Phipps picked
the ball out from a scrinmage and, hitting
it first to one side and then slantins 1t
for a long bounding roll across the field.
he scored a goal Before that he had
manoeuvred the prettiest goal Of the match
by checking the ball as 1t came on the
field firm hit In and quickly swinging his
mallet, returned 1t straight for a goal in
one play. The seventh and eighth periods
were like the fourth and fifth. Monte"
Waterbury got fair shot for goal, but he
was riding so fast that he hit awry and
missed by inches.
The lineup follows:
MEADOW BROOK C0. ROCKAWAY ~.
No. ii s. Phpps No Rene La Mon
No. 2J. NJ Water tasne. il
bury, jr. No. p. z Cowdin.
Nc. 81 p. Whitney. No. 3-FoxhaI Keene
Back-D. Mi1burn. Back-Joshua Crane.
Goals scored by: For Meadow Brook-James
NJ WATERBURY jr., 3; j. s PhiPps 3: Harry
Payne whitney /; lost by penalty, none; net
score. 8 goals. For Rockaway-John E Cowdin.
l. Foxhall Keene. /; lost by penalty. 4 goal for
safety by Foxhan Keene; net score. y goals
NH-