New-York tribune., 1922-10-08
Meadow Brook
Four Wins, 81,
Over Argentina
Losers Stage Desperate Rally
in Two Final Periods
of Fine Polo Match
By Fred Hawthorne

from the view Of the 10000 drenched
spectators in the stands. the great
Meadow Brook polo team defeated the
famous Argentine four yesterday af
ternoon by score of goals to 4. or
International Field at Westbury, L. l..
This was the second successive vic.
tory for Meadow Brook over the South
Americans, Devereux Milburn's team
having vanquished the Argentinians on
Wednesday. Yesterdays triumph, al.
though there was nothing official about
men from the South, virtually marked
the Meadow Brook four as the cham
pion polo team OF the world Argen-
tine having previously defeated the
best teams in this country and Eng
land.
This final game, which began with
Meadow Brook completely outplaying
the South Americans, the score stand
ing at goals to / at the end of the
sixth chukker, developed into thrill
ing, desperate struggle in the last two
periods, when the Argentinans, regain
ing their balance and welding their
tack, swept Meadow Brook opposition
aside and scored three brilliant goals
in quick succession, the Miles brothers
and Jack Nelson being responsible for
the scoring.
In the murk and gloom Of those last
few minutes Meadow Brook found the
situation completely reversed, and in
stead of being on the aggressive was
fighting with its back to the wall and
trying in vain to turn back the Argen-
tine attack. On free hit following
a foul by Meadow Brook in the last
fifteen seconds of play, Captain Luis
nf vi
at an extremely difficult angle from
the thirty-yard mark and might have
made it for q tie in the score had the
ball not struck Cooley's pony and been
DETECTED. Before play could be con-
tinued the bell rang, marking the end
Of the game.
Hitchcock in Leading Role
During the first four periods of play
the tremendous offensive Of the Meadow
Brook team, with Tommy Hitchcock ani
'Milburn taking leading part, COM
pletely upset the smooth team work of
Captain Lacey's four. The Americans
were riding their opponents so fiercely
that the South Americans were hurried
IN their stroking and found it virtually
impossible to settle down.
On numerous occasions the Argentin-
lans worked the ball to within striking
distance of the Meadow Brook goal
posts, only to see the stalwart Milburn
dash into the melee and smash the ball
out OF the danger scno and down to the
Center 6: with one great saving stroke.
hitchcock played at his brilliant best.
too, equaling Milburn in the length of
his hits and breaking up the Argentine
Team com blnatlons by his reckless rid
ing and stick work
Little James c. Cooley, again sub
stltutlng for Louis E. Stoddard. the
regular No. /, played the greatest game
OF MS career, scoring three of Meadow
Brooks goals and taking a leading
part in the offensive. j. Watson Webb.
at No. 3, worked in beautifully with
ms team mates and had a large part
In the victory.
Lacey, taking the game as a whole,
was not excelled by any player on the
Aelo' Ills own goal under continual
assault by Meadow Brook, Lacey was
forced to make many saves, and these
were always of the most brilliant. char
acter, else the Americans might have
ADDED to their score. In the last two
periods, when Argentine suddenly took
the offensive from Meadow Brook, the
south Americans gave as thrilling an
eXnlolt1on OF polo as has been seen in
TINS country since before the war. and
IL was then that the Miles brothers
and Nelson, backed up by the wonder
tul playing Of Captain Lacey. swent
down the field in irresistible manner
HAD they started this furious assault
!e" minutes earlier, the South Amer
leans might hive pulled victory out of
what finally proved to be brilliant
defeat.
In the second period Jack Nelson
scored the first goal of the game 49,
ing terrific shot squarely between +bo
posts from the sixty-yard mark. aftey
Lacey had fed him the ball. Meadow
BROOK started furious offensive in
an effort to score but Argentine hold
the assault and kept it's record nm
sullied. on-
The Meadow Brook four had it's
venge in the next chukker, when Hitch
cock and Cooley scored in quick snc-
cesslon as result of brilliant feeding
cy Mllburn and Webb. The American
tour went still further into the lead
IN the fourth period, little Cooley maxi
ing wonderful strokes.
Gallery Sticks 1t Out
Rain fell almost entirely throuobor+
the first half OF the game. The plavs
ers and ponies were almost hidden
from sight in the gloom and mist. and
sne gallery, practically without protec-
ton, showed its enthusiasm for the
game by sticking it out and defving
the elements. s
Cooley's two goals came about di-
dectly as the result of Meadow BROOKS
tremendous offensive, that Carried the /.
ball in front of Argentina's goal and
made Cooley's finishing strokes more !
Or less simple affairs.
Under this vicious hammerine the |
argentine team work was disrupted |
and again, as in Wednesdays game. the |
smoothing of the foreigners became err
ratio. Meadow Brook was outhittinr
She Argentine by wide margin. Mil |
ourn and Hitchcock making some re.
long hits. Many times the
visitors worked the ball down the f,eld |
20 Z, within striking distance, only to see |
,heir hell hopes blasted as the stalwart !
niliburn cut in with magnificent sayine
strokes. -'s
Hitchcock scored the fifth goal for
two minutes after the fifth
period began. The sixth period was
marked by desperate play on the part
u both teams, but neither side could |
score, and the bell rang, with the score
1t 5-1 in favor of Meadow Brook.
Argentine, following a brilliant at
ack BY David Miles and Jack Nelson.
scored its second goal of the game on
!, superb shot forty yards from the
MEADOW Brook goal, Miles being the
nan to tally. For once the, South
americans team work was welded into
concerted attack. Jack Miles added
lnother goal for Argentine fortvtw