New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Milburn Forgets Ailing
Back in Helping to Pile
Up Highest Total Made
in International Match
wild West Riding
Upsets Defenders
George V and Alfonso
See Contest, in Which
Losers Had No Chance
By Arthur S. Draper
Spec;nI Cable TO The T'ribu,,e
Uf'VVtt1~ N7N.0VV 70 7 TIC 4 tVuFU
wright. 1921, New York Tribune Ynr

L
HUKLINGhAM POLO FIELD, LON
DON, June 1S.-The American polo
team defeated the British quartet, ii
10 4, to-day in the first match for the
International trophy. Devereux Mil
burns brilliant four played such won
derfui game that the English title de-
tenders will have to improve nightly
before Wednesday if they prevent the
cup from leaving these shores.
Two Kings, one former and one fu-
ture monarch and 10000 spectators,
including most of the nobility of Eng
land, saw the game, in which the Amer
leans piled up the highest score that
has been made in any international
match since the trophy series was
started, thirty years ago.
Although under the care of a physi-
elan until almost the moment that he
mounted his pony, Milburn never
played so brilliantly. Riding like a
eentaur, hitting like fiend, diagnosing
plays with uncanny quickness, he was
easily the star of the day, and, despite
his forty years, he showed the field
that he is still easily the finest back in
the world.
Britishers Outplayed
The American captain increased the
confidence of his compatriots that the
cup will be won from England, for he
improved as the game advanced, and in
the final chukker he was a perfect
demon.
Major N. V. Lockett's team was so
completely outplayed that it appeared
on the field even worse than the score
would Indicate. Two of the four points
scored by the British were made out
o. penalty shots.
J. Watson Webb, No. s Of the Ameri-
can team, who is unusual in that he
swings his mallet with his left hand.
vas the second star on the field. He
had six Goals TO his credit, and what is
almost as IMP 0rtant, he saved the game
mahy times when Lieutenant Colonel
Ton kinson, the British forward, pep
pered the American goal.
Louis Stoddard, of the American
team, h.t beautifully from short range,
WhlIe Thomas c. Hitchcock who was
PLAYING his first international match
almost equaled his captain in long
driving. 'e
colonel Tomkinson and Lord Wode-
hoase were the best of the English four.
showing real flash from the fourth
cChokker to the end. Neither Major
bSrrett nor Major Lockett pot welI
started and toward the close of The
game their whole play became sadly
- mere was wonderful setting for
90 80 spoFting spectacle. Long before
s,,.;,. sTr s*Me started the crowd began to
amy. apiase, "a ana d when the King of Spain
over the stands which nanked botb
.sldes Of the playing field and fran, OqSn t5a
crowds ON the hard levels Of tha ILat
Ing rink Hundreds Of Americans
,aSnF -, OF them as well known here -,
a. aS iNeadowbrook, Westburv. Newnort
Ini-aoelphla or far-off California'
proa4tded proaetnaded in front Of the stands
stggSting dish friends. ''
ooo ne Royal Guards band of more than
forn,p 1 pieees, wearing their striking mi.
tan booo req trousers and TUNES and
3oEsi playing Sousa's IS STARS and Str;ral |rlae
-0'eFer and other ~ousinp tunes p''
hoyaity Intensely Interested
o,ore before the arrival of King ceorcev
tnI Tufen Mary and Princess Roval Vi
w;tl, sTtia many. open carriages apneared
"rt @'.n RNostiilions N wearing She rovaI COZ ~
AZ Ala Inc Prince OF Wales Joined King
sn;f1' nli;onso' and the two soon beean - n'ag ~,
ff~jhinated fsh conversation with the Emo.
sath, ssoti ana American players. Both re
tbo a"aslastic poloists, and throughout
ese se gaine they watched with the keen
warrd, Vs.. interest this great battle Of HSt the
"gpta Tt greatest players. - '''e
Why seemed anxious to learn
wben wbberner r, Milburn intended to plav 'a9d and
tbera Hnsa the American captain assured red
Sishse Safn he would start the game e'Dand and
bS,'EaraW h. < IN favor of Earl Honnina@ @'i' ;f
wiz iound his strained back interfered
tbsra Slsm his play they both expressed ressed
cp,Iiseives p,siIqseives highly pleased that fbo
tS5ai,engers the would not be deprived of
s4s services of their star. -
cd soon as the royal party was seal
AL IA box, to which the Amer;can
in,vv;s.aS,sador and Mrs. Harvey had been ,e[sn
'''eo' the ponies were naraded
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