The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-19
Special pespatcA 70 The Sun.

Special Despdfch TO The Sun.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1s.-Saving his
lone goal until the most crucial time Ben
jan1in X. Gatins, NO. 2, on the Meadow
BIZ ook second team. launched a spectacu-
lar drive In the eighth period that
skinned through the very centre Of the
goal posts and gave the Long Islanders a
Az to ~ victory over the Philadelphia
Country Club here to-day.
Gatin's goal, made after two minutes
and forty-five seconds of hard playing.
carried with It the Junior national cham
pionship.
More than 5000 persons turned out to
zee the title decided. The Country Club
earned the right to play Meadow Brook
b. virtue of Its sensational extra period
triumph over the Rockaway, L. L. team
last Monday.
But for the individual efforts of Bar
clay McFadden, back on the Country
Club team, the Philadelphians would
have been put to rout. His saves were
frequent. Once. or twice he either
bsclSstroked or hooked the ball away
from the goal when it looked as IL there
was no chance to keep the Long Island
ers from scoring. To be exact. he saved
five goals. and at the start OF the sixth
period took up drive where E. Lowber
Stokes had left of and by a spectacular
shot sent the ball between the uprights.
Meadow Brook earned Ave goals as
against four by the Country Club. Each
team was penalized Y of a point
OF the Ave Meadow Brook goals J. G..
Cooley and G. NJ. Heckscher each con-
TT ibuted two, while Benjamin X. Gatins
spun over the nth and deciding one.
Meadow Brook Plays Best.
Gatin's riding in the other chukkers
played a prominent part In his teams
victory. He was all over the field and,
like the other Meadow Brook players,
executed his shots much better than the
Philadelphians.
Team work more than anything else
carried the Long Islanders through to
the national title. Whenever a man drove
down the long and well kept green there
was always another Meadow Brook man
behind him. Cooley and ]. G. Milburn
were conspicuous in every play. They
drove straight and far. while the latter
was not far behind McFadden when 1t
came to back hand strokes.
The game was hardly a minute old
before McFadden made his first save.
taking a goal right away from ]. C.
Cooley after the latter had driven more
than fifty yards The first goal went to
Cooley on a long side field shot In four
minutes twenty-one seconds. During a
mixup little later Milburn made n
safety and on the exchange of sides
Thomas Stokes evaded the entire
Meadow Brook team, and dribbling the
ball first up the side of the boards and
then out into the open scored a goal In
one minute two seconds and put the
Country Club In the running. The first
period ended / % q goals in Meadow
Brooks favor.
A.
start of the second period evened the
played brilliant riding, but the shots
I were not well timed and although ten
seconds overtiu.s was played neither
side was able to make a goal.
After foul was called by Referee
Holmes against Milburn for cross riding
early in the third. Chukker Cooley cut
loose from the pack and after n few
short dribbles s. OF a goal In three min
, utes thirty-flve seconds.
For the second time in the match w.
Standby Stokes. No. 2 man on the Coun-
try Club was thrown from his mount
He landed in front OF the clubhouse
crowd and narrowly escaped knocking
down several spectators. While Stokes
was still spraying on the ground out
side the playing space and his grooms
were hurrylng to the other end of the
| field to get another pony. Meadow Brook
went on with the game. Time had not
been called and the Country Club with
only three men in action did the best Il
could, but Hecksher drove the wooden
ball for another tally which gave the
Long Islanders commanding lead OF
az to y. The period ended n little
later.
Broken Ball Delays Game.
A broken ball held up the game for a