The Washington times., 1921-06-22
YANKS WIN
I TROPHY IN
POLOGA|VE
Captain MHburn's Team Downs
British In Two Straight VIC
tories Playing Brilliant.
~ WILLIAM La nfAILABAh
InteruatfsnaI News Service.

ny wLkkAAM A~ nAAsAAADAS
Inte~natfeaaI News Service.
HURIINGHAM, England, June
22-America's great polo team lifted
the famous international cup by de-
feating the. British team 1915 here
today in the second match Of the
series, which was for the best two
in three. H ~
GAIT. MI.BuRN srARS.
Capt. Deversux 'Mfiburn and his
dashing players won the right to
carry the cup back TO America In the
presence of the greatest crowd that
ever witnessed a polo match In the
British Isles The Prince OF Wales
was a distinguished spectator and the
nobility turned out In force.
Captain MuIburn recovered from
the injuries to his back that threat
ened to keep him out of last weeks
match. and was the inspiration to his
team again today. He started In
whiriwtnd style and seemingly taxing
the cue from him, the American team
rode TO victory after getting start
Of three goals to nothing In the initial
chukker.
In the NTH chukker, the British
scored two goals against one for
America, making the score S.to 9, with
America leading.
Neither side was able to score tn
the sixth chukker, which ended with
Milburn's team still leading s to 9.
SCORE BY CHUKkERs.
The score of the match today by
chukkers:
America. 8 1 1 2 1 o 2-10
The victorious American team lined
up the same as on Saturday. when it
defeated the British. IL to l. Captain
Milburn played back: Louis Stoddard.
number 1; Tommy Hitchcock. trans
fer number 2, and Watson Webb.
number 3.
An accident during the third chuk-
ker caused a halt in the match. Louis
Stoddard ran into a goal attendant
with his pony and an ambulance was
called. The goal attendant was not
believed to be severely injured.
though he was badly shaken up.
Later in the match, J. Watson webb
suffered a broken finger when he was
struck by a mallet. This caused an
other short delay.
The British team was also the
same as that of Saturday and they
gave a more brilliant account of
themselves today. Lieut. Col. Tom
kinson played at number one, Major
Barrett at number two, Lord Wode-
Lockett back.
YANKs DARING RIDERS.
A notable feature about the play
ing of the cup-lifting American in
vsders is their wonderful riding and
hard smashing. \ The accuracy with
which Devereux, \Milburn and webb.
at number three. shot forth the
goals were impressive. The Amer
leans. also, were better mounted
than their British cousins.
In -four of seven chukkers today
the victors shut out the British
team and succeeded In scoring
themselves In al but one period. de
sixth.
Louis stoddsrd particularly shared
the scoring activities In today's
match with Milburn and Webb. IL
was Stoddard who shot the FIRST
goal for the Americans and shortly
Afterwards assisted Webb In scor-
ing another one. This gave the in.
vrdrr- comfortable lead, but they
annexed still another goal before
the hrst chukker ended and were
leading three to nothing.
In the second chukker the Ameri-
can team added one more goal 70 its
total. but the British broke IN with
two. The third chukker saw the Brit
ish team blanked again, while the
Americans got back a goal. In the
fourth chukker both teams scored
two goals, and In the fifth the Brit
lsh shot two more against one for
Milburn. This brought the score up
10 3 TO 9, with America leading. The
sixth chukker was scoreless, but in
the nnsl period the Yankee players
scossd two more goals.