The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-17

heart. There had been a feeling that
this was England's year and that there
was no use to wrestle with fate, but
there was also the feeling that La
Montague. the Waterways and Milburn
| had done all that an American four
could do against those amazing English
men.
| May Try for Cup in 1915.
And on top OF this was the hope
everywhere heard that we must 60 after
the cup in 1915. 1t was clubhouse Cos
sip yesterday that an attempt would be
made and that the one man sure OF
place on the 1915 challengers was
Devereux Milburn.
| Ii is hard to write OF yesterdays
game without dealing in superlatives.
There was more than the game to stir
| enthusiasm. A nights rain had washed
clean air and field. a northwest wind
that was nearly gale swept over
stands and field from first to last. but
even the thinly clad forgot the vexa-
tons of gusty wind when the white
ball began to fash up and down and
across the vast spread of emerald carpet
which they call Meadow Brook Field.
An hour before the game 1t was ap-
parent that the crowd would outnumber
the great gathering OF last Saturday
afternoon. AS one looked from the
summit OF the west stand and swept
Hampstead Plains all the automobiles
In the world seemed TO be pointed for
Meadow Brook, coming along yellow
brown roads that streaked the green
plains like the lines of a railroad map.
Ten Trains In sight.
II had been raining only a few hours
previously, but already dust haze was
forming along the horizon, a haze from
which motor cars leaped mysteriously
into the sunlight. Along the Long Is
land Railroad train after train was
crawling toward the polo field. At one
time there were ten trains in sight.
The field itself was deserted then
save only for adventurous robins that
hoped about and peered cockily at the
crowds The spectators were gathering
in the three stands. the immense stand
ut the west, the stand almost as large
at the east and the smaller stand at the
south. From these structures flags
were swapping in the wind. The Union
Jack was Haunting from the east stand,
but there was no American flag In sight.
The only American colors observed
were shown in the bunting draped along
the sides OF the stands. From all
stands the flag OF the Meadow Brook
Club, blue field and the white letters
, IN. p. c." was displayed and there
were more touches Of color In the gay
, red. white and blue striped burgess to
the right and left of the east stand.
Challenger at Practice.
While the thousands came there were
signs OF polo life on No. field. the
practice field north of the international
grounds. Major Barrett was out canter-
ing a pony and lazily shifting a bal
. around. Presently Lockett Joined him
, for a limbering up, and then came other
Englishmen. Afterward the Americans
; La Montague first of all, exercised and
, tested eye and muscles. Such prelimi.
, naries as these were intensely interest.
ing to the sport loving throng.
Somebody glimpsed the approach Of
: Harry Payne Whitney's string of ponie.
{ coming through clouds of dust from
wheatley Hills. Everybody was up fol
Y that. The band began to play, hut II
,. the humming of the wind its strains
r became mere skirlings OF bagpipe.
1 Far over in the northeast corner o.
= the field movie men were pursuing
Harry Whitney. harassing him o.
poses. Lord and Lady Wimborne. JohI
1 Trail of the English team and tn
o Duke OF Peneranda left the west stan,
: and strolled across the field. Lord Win
Y borne carrying himself Jauntily and be
a / Aatu To nj i'm
borne and Trail were in polo garb. blu
Jackets. white riding breeches and vel
low boots There was something care
: lessly confident about Lord Wimborn
o that was instantly sensed by the crowd
a Capt. Cheape Cheered.
In minute or two Capt. Leslie 81
=, George Cheape cantered upon the fiel
. and swung his pony in and out between
+ the goal posts. There was roa
.. OF applause from the south stand. tn
: British stronghold.
>. As Cheape galloped away the ban
;, played the Star Spangled Banner" an
:, $1,000 persons went to their feet. A
I" they sat down the string of Englis
: ponies. sleek and skittish In the kee
10 air, began the parade around the fielt
% conducted by Faulkner, the Engis
trainer-Faulkner who was so confiden
'r OF victory that he cried to friends:
10 you can bet your life on US to-da,
my boy"
N There were grand ponies In the Ems
n fish string Of twenty-six. that coul
u turn on the tip of steeple and this
Or play the game as the Maltese Cat playe
at when Lutyens rode, There was Per