The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
MEADOW BROOK
FOUR BEATEN
BY ROCKAWAY
Drops First Match in Ma
tional Title Tourney
by z IA to 6 IL.
VETERANS IN THE LINEUP
Hopping and Rumsey Star
10000 Persons Cheer
Players.
VETERANS IN THE LINEUP
sp.ctnl pespatcA 70 Tnr Sun.


PHrLApEIPFIA, Sept. 20.-Formlng
scoring partnership that was surprising
and spectacular, r. W. Hopping and c.
C. Rumsey Of tho Rockaway Hunting
Club piled goals 80 fast that the famous
Meadow Brook Club team was defeated
In the first game Of the championship
series at the Philadelphia Country Club
field this afternoon. The final score
was z Ia to 1-2.
Hopping was the Individual star OF
the day, with four goals, while Rumsey
was right at his heels with three. They
got ali but one of the Rockaway's tai
lies, the other being credited to Malcolm
Stevenson.
Poloists of international fame. includ-
ing Harry Payne Whitney, L. Il. Stod-
dard and Devereau Milburn, were out
shone by the younger generation, al
though the latter managed to turn In
four of Meadow Brooks seven goals.
It was not day for the old timers.
They played their best in the early
periods only to have Rumsey and Hop
ping come along in the waning periods
Their shots brought cheer after cheer
from the 10000 spectators and they
gradually turned defeat into a memoir
able victory. The exhibition of indivld-
ual playing by Hopping in the sixth
period will llnger long in the memory
of the greatest crowd that ever saw
polo match in this vicinity. ..
With the score tied at ~ goals at
the end of the fifth period as result of
Rumseys fiashy goal, Hopping. six
goal man, took 1t upon himself to show
the ten goalers of the famed Meadow
Brook four how to score. Evading j.
w. Webb, his No 2 rival, Hopping got
loose from the field and scored cork
Ing goal in 1 minute 4S seconds.
Milburn. an internationalist, broke
through a little while later and again
tied the score, but, that only served to
set Hopping in motion again, and with
a perfect shot he put Rockaway in the
lead again by tallying in 1 minute 8
seconds The teams had hardly changed
sides before Hopping made his third
goal of the period. 1t was registered in
So seconds and virtually clinched the
game for Rockaway.
When Meadow Brook was pressing
again in the final period Hopping made
his fourth and last goal after riding of
several Meadow Brook players. 1t was
one OF the longest and best goals of
the match. Rumsey's three goals came
in the second, fourth and fifth periods
and all the result of dazzling riding and
well executed shots.
Tommy Hitchcock, Jr., Plays.
Rockaway played with Tommy Hitch
cock, Jr., the aviator who escaped from
the German prison camp, in the lineup
He was at back in J. Cheever Cowdin's
place. as the latter was on the injured
list. Young Hitchcock, who is still in
his teens, played a masterful game. al
though he was the only player on the
field who did not score. His duty was
to break up the Meadow Brook attack
at the goal, and he succeeded well. Time
after time Whitney, the former Yale
oarsman and all around sportsman, and
Stoddard, an ex-Yale football player,
drove for the uprights only to have
young Hitchcock ward off the white ball
on the very edge of the goal.
Whitney played his most brilliant polo
early in the match. In the first period
he dribbled the bali almost the length
Of the field, and then picking out an
opening spun the ball home for a goal in
minutes 20 seconds. The remainder
of the afternoon Whitney. who is the
field general of the big Four" was kept
busy watching Malcolm Stevenson and
yelling words of encouragement to his
teammates.
Once in the third period Whitney re-
ceived nasty crack on the hand and
after firineback a few cuss words at a
Rockaway player, went on his way. It
was the first big polo match that Whit
ney has played in since 1914. when his
team lost the international match to
England.
One of the tricks of the Rockaway
team, which was not conceded much of
chance against the more experienced
Meadow Brook four, was to save its
best mounts for the last half. When
MAa0OW RrOOlx t1ila1 nm "a aanraa - an
toN2h at the end of the fourth period
there were few In the sweltering crowd
who thought that the Rockaway quartet
had chance. but Malcolm Stevenson
. and his tireless players switched to the
speediest ponies in the Rockaway stable
and starting with the fifth period soon
had Meadow Brook on the run.
Defensive Play at start.
Defensive play marked the early part
of the opening period, with both teams
dribbling the ball rather than taking
any chance on long shots. The honors
OF making the first goal of the match
went to ]. J. Webb. the southpaw driver.
who took clever pass from Milburn
and skinned the ball squarely between
the posts in minutes 25 seconds.
Hockaway missed a goal by inches
when one of Stevenson's shots was
warded on. Harry Payne Whitney fol-
lowed with his goal before the end OF
the period, and the Meadow Brook four
was out in front with a two goal lead.
which looked mighty big.
After driving quarters the
length Of the field in two shots Mil
burn came within foot of tallying early
In the second period, but Stevenson
arched spectacular shot that few at
least thirty feet In the air and then
rolling twenty or thirty yards passed be-
tween the posts for a Rockaway goal in
minutes Al seconds.
The fastest goal of the match fol-
lowed when Stoddard after the tossing
In at midheld took the ball down the
grass and spun 1t through the posts in
forty seconds.
Mnburn made plucky ride to prevent
Rumsey's first goal, which came late in
the period. II was a shot that trav-
eiled fully 100 yards, with Milburn' s
pony trying to overtake the ball at the
posts. The ball won the race.
MiIburn Scores In Third Period.
After scurrying OF ponies hoofs and
mallets In midheld in the third period.
Milburn scored a goal in / minute IL
seconds Young Hitchcock lost his mall
let near the clubhouse side of the neld
while being ridden Off by an opponent
Miburn's goal was the only score Of ths
period which ended with Meadow Brook
stin out in front, 4 TO .. By thai tims
spectators were beginning 10 think theN
had an easy bet on the "Bie -Four ;,
Things channaa a,,aaost.. -