New-York tribune., 1922-09-26

Captain Devereux Miiburn's famous
Meadow Brook Treebootes will clash
with the Flsminzo four, and to-
morrow, with tnees,arf Of the semi
final games for The Waterbury Cup.
the great Argentine team from South
America will meet sheiSourne House,
on international u ieid.
Yesterday anl to-day were desig-
mated by tho committee as free to the
public, bus beginning with tomorrow
game il will be necessary to secure
tickets 70! admission 10 tie grounds.
The stands will seat upwards of $4,000
persons and IL is expected that capacity
crowds will attend the tournament
games. Special train viii! be run, oe-
ginning tomorrow and continuing for
the duration Of tne tournaneNc - 81
the Pennsylvania station OF the Lorg
| Island Railroad, beginning at jZ,49
o'clock. These trains will run direct
10 the grounds of the Meadow Brook
Club and also handle the returning
crowds az soon ss the games are com
pleted each day.
More ideal weather conditions cculd
not have been asked of an indui9cn
Providence than greeted players and
spectators yesterday. The great stretch
of turf was in wonderful shape. and 81
almost cloudless blue sky, with jus.
the faintest Of breezes, made 1t perfect
polo weather. Several hundred spccta-
tors, a majority of them sumner resi-
dents of Long Island, with a sma.terinR
of visitors from the city, ranged them
selves on either side Of the playing
field.
Stoddard Stars for Visitors
Louis Il. Stoddsrd was the chief
scorer for Sheiburne House, n1akinc q
total OF nine goals and next to him. at
five goals, was Raymond Belmont, No.
2 on the yictors' team. with J. Watson
Webb the brilliant lcft-hander, adding
four more. Robert e. Strawbridge jr..
the Shelburne back, made lone tally.
yet his work on defense was Of sterling
duality, and the hard-riding Irishmen
found 1T difficult to put him out Of the
play when the Sheiburne goal wss in
danger.
Al-Ireland, being conceded a team
handicap OF six goals by Sheiburne.
could add only three more tallies
through their own efforts, j. A Trench
scoring two Of these and Captain w. l.
Goulding the other.
Although second in scoring power
Yesterday, Raymond Belmont vas per
haps the star OF che day. Easily dis
tinguishable by his flaming red cap, IL
not alone by the speed and intelligence
OF ais mounts. Belmont was all over
the Acid. yet ever in the right spot, it
seemed. No man followed the ball
closer than the slender Shelburne No.
z. Even when he missed with his
hard-swung mallet, Belmont was al
ways q danger to the Irish team. which
never knew just where or when the
Shelburne star was going to suddenly
inject himself into the Mtddle Of a
sizzling melee and dash away toward
the distant goal posts, driving the ball
before him with hammer blows.
One thing that impressed the crowd
at Meadow Brook yesterday was the
clean superiority of the Shelburne
ponies. In almost every instance they
were faster than the Irish mounts when
it came to the stirring dashes the
length of the field, and they also ex-
celed in wheeling and stopping.
The Shelburne defense was stronger
than that of the All-Ireland four. and
the combination play of the American
players was likewise better. On almost
every occasion when 8 Shelburne rider
started down toward the enemy goal
with the ball he could rely upon one
of his teammates being in the immedi-
ate vicinity, either to ride off an op-
ponent or TO take the ball on a light
ming pass and drive on toward the
goal posts.
Webb Plays Daringly
Webb, the tall left-hander for Shell
burne, did some Of the most brilliant
mallet work of the day, ny OF his
drives down the field carrying great
distances, and more than once he drew
applause from the gallery with dar-
ing backhand smashes at the ball that
sent the white sphere catapulting
through the air.
stoddard, c veteran international. Of
course, played consistently good polo.
not only being the highest scorer os
the day but also rendering his mates
invaluable assistance when it came to
protecting the man with the ball and
being in position to sccro when the
opportunities came.
french and Captain Gouldine vere
the outstanding men on the All-freland
I,3ur, and both might have added to
the Irish total had they received the
Same ytdi support thnt aided Stoddard and
nelmcnt 70 tally, Frequently. after
the visitors had taken the ball down
tEe Jse!c and almost within The shadow
pt "a Dle Sheiourne goal. it was LOST when
mere was no lrish player 20 receive
III some cesea this v-as due % N.
aW%ltter shelhurne ponies. which ont
distanced thetr rivals in the rslIon.
across the green. and nrain + vss
oIe to tho splendid interference of IA
Sheiourno players, VINO put their or.
ponents out OF the piag most oA.er-
lively by daring riding cN.
Devereux Milburn nd liaior y;,,;,,
Lockett. the Dritish se:.r actos 'I'
umpiren, while William II. Pora, r,"s as
sided as timer AND scorer. In ,he opeT
inng period Irelaud took the hsg -,
me center but Il was Bcl,nont lvbo
stoie II from under the thundcv
noots, and, aided oy Stoddard's r,,,e,h
lnterference. made the Arst goal n,,o
minute after the start Of play. stod.
qare W was the next to score, and then
Webn, dashing out Of fierce ser;n,'
mage near the Irish goal, hit the hail
cleanly between the posts. ""''
trench tailed for Ireland few, a..
onas later, scoring on n sharn aneiea
shot from the aide, and il was Trercn
aeain who made his second score ~
me day about three minutes aftsr ~
neli rang starting the second nsr;oS
captain Gill could be heard urc;pc 80
teammates to "stay with vonr na. rs
fei!sows' For time the irish 5esannn ,num.
soHened and the struggle srsw 'So T.,