Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-11

over and the score was observed TO
be SIX points to 8. The biggest por-
ton of the 10000 crowd couldn't un-
derstand it at all, and everybody
who had the strong Yankee spirit
simply collapsed from the shock. No
matter how much the home folk tried
beforehand to detect one straw to
cling to for victory, after 1t was all
over and it was only too true that
America had won, they were more or
less f1abbergasted.
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All during the play, although we
showed in front from the start, an
apprehensive atmosphere was appar-
ent everywhere. We had been told
that the English were such a clever
lot and that their ponies were such
superior lot that our chances were the
remotest ever. Yet when the Yankees
blood was set a-tingling and their
spirits were aroused, and into the
fray they dashed, they knew no mas
ter, and out of the battle at almost
every turn they came triumphant
over their rivals. 1t was a delight
fully sweet victory in lieu of many
things, and the players were wild
with Joy and the spectators were
frenzied with enthusiasm. Indescrib-
able scenes marked the match from
the first "chuck" to the final scrim-
mage, and America has never been
more thoroughly excited before.
O.
The game. brilliant though it was,
reeked with surprises--and disap-
pointments, perhaps. England. be-
i,eved to have the classiest team in
polo history, showed nothing OF the
sort. Maybe there was a reason.
Maybe the manner in which the
Yankees attacked the foreigners and
PUSHED them and battled them at the
very opening of the proceedings drove
them into slump, into de1eat..
America, said to be out OF condition.
out of sorts, and in the throes OF So
cial war-discontent, dissatisfied,
everything at odds-knocked all the
predictions gally west and triumphed
In the most brilliant style. The lack
of condition was not in evidence, and
the other and numerous faults said to
he in existence never came to the sur
face. Instead, the grand big Four"
which won the cup in 1903, and which
defended the cup in 1911, displayed as
much dash and daring as ever. Moth
ing could stop them when once on
their way and nothing could upset
them when they were in the others
way. They played like wild men, yet
always with rare Judgment, in the
early stages of the contest, and when
the game begun to wane they en-
ployed a generalship and tact that
were easily apparent and which
stopped short at the most critical
stages the most prospective oppor-
tunities of the Englishmen to score.
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In plain words and true, the Yam
KEGS outgeneraled and outmaneuvered
their opponents at almost every turn.
They rushed them into submissive
and defensive attitudes which
crushed much of their confidence and
their spirit as proceedings opened, and
as the game progressed our boys
stopped every rally, every attack OF
the enemy, as much with their brain
: as with their Drawn. There isn't
question of doubt but that England
hoe onanIrino fao,,a ~ pO10fefq and
she would shine away over us if al
lowed to stage her own battle and set
her own pace. But when the play is
fast and rough and daring and her
opponents are such noble citizens as
Harry Payne Whitney, Larry Water
bury, Monte Waterbury and Devereux
Milburn, the difference is so tremen-
dous that the scientific and crafty
little niceties of polo that may reign in
the foreign team are smashed to smith
Greens by the ferocious and some
times vicious onslaught of the Amer
leans. 1t is not in the play so much
that America excels, but in the man
ner of play; and while not quite GER
tain. it is perhaps very probable that
the English can claim with mild dis
pute, if any, their right to possessing
a more skilful, il not quite as sue
cessful, polo team. That honor they
can have with welcome, so long as
the victory doesn't go with it.
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We must give considerable credit to
England for her play, no matter what
the result. Under the severest fire
she slapped back in a manner that
denoted that her spirit was still there.
When driven back and ridden off she