Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-24
Big Crowd Watches Meadowbrook-
Burlingame Team Go Down in
Defeat - High. Class Game Was
Played.

II win be goodbye, for at least one
year, to the Coronado polo cups, 1udg'
Ing from the decisive manner In which
King Edwards dashing cavalry officers
beat the Meadowbrook-B urlingame
team by 8 goals to on Fl Cerrito
polo field yesterday afternoon before
large and fashionable attendance.
says an exchange.
Twenty thousand dollars Ia men
toned a. the probable amount that
changed hands on the rsuslt Of the In
ternational game. which was the high.
est class polo ever seen here. NJ,
Both sides and one end, OF the big
turf field were lined thickly with spec.
tators, Of whom there were approxi'
mately 1000. The pavilion was crowd.
ed with members, and, the lawn In
front Of It accommodated a. many
more. Scores Of automobiles and smart
traps were parked behind and along.
side of the pavilion and ranged along
the opposite side OF the field.
Cup Presented victors.
A cup presentation was arranged In
the pavilion as soon as the winning
four could be coaxed to come up froin
the dressing rooms and face the fash.
lonable mob. The victors wore their
laurels with becoming modesty and de,
clared they regard the result of, the
Coronado tournament. which will com.
mence at the end OF the week, as any
thing but a foregone conclusion be.
cause they are very short of ponies and
may not be able to acquire enough
good mounts to serve them throughout
two weeks of fast and. hard play.
Yesterdays International game dem.
onstrated that the few polo ponies
brought from England are much faster
thap they look and remarkably agile.
Their schooling has approached perfec.
ton. But they number only dozen.
OF which two or three already are
knocked out or famed, and yesterdays
victorious visitors should have twenty.
Ave with which to begin the Coronado
tournament. ~.
Lee Tower - Strength.
The English exhibited excellent team
play, their, passing, frequently being
the prettiest polo Imaginable. Also
their physical condition seemed supe.
rior to the Americans, who shot their
bolt In the first four periods. Hobart,
as back, played his game the first half,
but seemed particularly done up the
last two periods, during which Major
G. w. Hobson, the English No. /. play.
ed all around him, But the English
back, Major Roger Lee, was tower OF
strength for his team throughout the
game and he outgeneraled the Ameri.
can No. /, John Z. Cowdin, who either
has gone back considerably since he
played on Foxhall Keene's champion
team or else was not ut enough for
| such fast and exhausting warfare as
he found himself amid yesterday.
Waterbury Has on Day.
Monte, Waterbury was palpably of
his game. The captain OF the interna.
tlonal champions of last year showed
occasional flashes Of high quality polo
yesterday. but he also showed that a
crack player can not reach the top Of
his form in three of four practice
games after winters fay-off. Fur.
thermore. he was astride strange
mounts, which pulls down any crack
players game 20 per cent or more.
He played No. 3, and after the first
period he never had anything on thu
English No. 2, Lieutenant F. B. Hurn.
dali, whose daring horsemanship, wide
reaches. accurate hitting and capital
goal shots from any old angle made
him the star forward In the game.
II he goes on well. as horsemen say,
this clever young player will DO com.
Ing across the Atlantic some OF these
days on an all-England team In quest
OF the international cup that the Wa.
terbury-Whltney team won back for
America last year. .f
Lee and, Hurndall Get Falls.
The remaining pair of opponents
was Thomaa h priscoll. the Bur.
lingame No. 3, md Lieutenant F. A.
Gill. who played No. 3. for the inyad.
ers Just az he DID a, year ago. They
know each others game well by now,
out Driscoll seemed to find GU harder
TO play than last year, possibly be.
cause the Ranolagh captain on this oc-
castor Is not contending with strange
mounts,
Near the end Of the game, while
reaching FAR out OF the saddle and over
MS pony for q hit. Major Lee was
thrown by his pony stumbling over the
pavilion boards into which he charged
reckiessly. He pulled of his hit, too,
and picked himself up unhurt. :,
Lieutenant Hprndall got a some,
what similar fall In the American goal
IN the NTH period. when he sudder,y
snatched up his pony and leaned awsy