The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
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FIGHTS HARD
To WIN
I'll MIHM
American Polo Team Writes
Sport History With Victory.
Prince Drinks From Cup
By CAROLINE D. APPLETON.

America, with score of IA to S,
the close of the second international
Cup game at Meadowbrook today
found the English team dripping.
y. riding savagely, hitting true, and
far. game to the last ringing OF the
gong.
Tn the words of Devereux Mil
burn dangerous to the end!"
In every respect the game was
all that was foretoid by those who
saw promise in Saturdays game,
and felt that a second encounter
would bring the opposing teams of
the two great English-spe aking
polo playing nations closer together,
more evenly matched by virtue Of
a tacit agreement on how precisely
polo should be played
New Standard Set.
With a score heavily overbalanced,
and with the consciousness that
s they were severely outplayed, the
English team can weather the bit
terness of defeat stimulated by the
knowledge that this match has set
new standard of polo that COM
bines the best traditions of sport
manship, and gives honor to their
play which yesterday wrote page
in polo history that must forever
serve as a text book to coming
generations.
1t may be possible to stress too
greatly, though / doubt it. that the
invading team did a splendid, a
magnificent thing in adapting it
self ito a hopeless situation and raj
lying to a hopeless cause ,swith a
fire and fury that were reminiscent
Of f6n 90 -1yy OF nf tho in
India, when heat and temper, home.
sickness, hill warfare and blind
ing sun to keep the pitch, made
the conservative British army game
q vastly exciting matter largely
made up of perspiration and sudden
death. But the great blue stands
at Meadowsbrook yesterday fairly
rocked with cheers for the in
vaders as we'll as for the growing
tally of our own team.
British Start.
The Saturday crowd was slightly
thinned to a week day gathering ct
those, who in the majority knew a
good deal about the game and VINO
were actuated by frantic admiration
and certainly not by the courtesy
rendered the vanquished. The two
goals with which the British
launched their game were masterlyS
and brought 10000 people to their
feet with an historical howl Of ap.
plause, SO completely were the
tables turned and the loosely
knitted challenging team bound-up
in the fine silk thread of IRE
proachable team work.
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that the American big four were
nonplussed by this meteoric display.
When they rallied after a few ex-
traordinarily disconnected opera
lions and presented once more the
solid combination which Lacey de.
scribed on Saturday as a perfect
machine, the battle waged hotly,
with no courtesies at all, and SO
much mixed emotion from tho
stands that the affair might we'll
have been a friendly preliminary
encounter and not a test Of national
fitness to hold an international cup.
But the American four as we can
boast it now sharing the honors of
one position between Malcolm Ste
venson and Bobby Strawbridge, con.
ceding Tommy Hitchcock to be his
father, heir to fame and possessed
of certain attributes Of greatness
peculiarly his own, watching WO--
shipfully the mighty welding OF
Webb's left-handed stick and finally
Frustrating oneself and touching
ones turban to the ground three
times before the indomitable Mil
burn,-We are constrained to adj
NIT with fanfarings of trumpe:s
that they or rather we play the
worlds best polo. Absolutely the
worlds best polo.
When the ponies were again
assembled under the tender care
of seriously-overwrou grooms.
among whom was a Hindu. tur-
baned in gray and remarkably con-
cerned with Lieutenant Colonel
Melvill, who assumed the position
of No. after the elimination of
Major Hurndall and who so in
spired his team as to make it pos
sible for Mr.. Lacey to concentrate
occasionally on the position of back
for which he was obviously intend.
ed, but which by force of circum-
stances he played in addition to
whatever happened to be necessary
in the defense of his country last
Saturday.
Lacey Hero OF Hour.
Altogether, Mr.. Lacey is the hero
of the hour. Personally, am in.
clined to doubt that he is human.
heard several ladies remark that
he could only be divine. But one
gentleman of advanced years wept
upon the shoulder Of his stalwart
but also weeping son, proclaimed
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Just outside the Meadowbrook gate,
and that Mr.. Lacey had arisen
from the depths in blaze OF
scarlet and smoke, and that when
Mr.. Lacey returned to the Gun
derworld, he. the speaker, would
go too and sit there forever on a
griddle just watching him knock
balls about! ~,
Prince Enthusiastic.
The prince lost his cigarette
holder. and howled with the rest
over the first plays that seemed to
proffer hope of victory. Lord
Mountbatten, on the grass below
the royal box, yelled a violent hur.
rah and nearly embraced Mr.
Stevenson who smiled from a
drawn white face and rested FIRE.
quently upon the ground and rail
ing, altogether an object Of deep
concern to all who were within
range of him and who knew tina;
he would have attended this game
against the orders of a thousand
doctors.
Mr.. Stevenson suffered a severe
concussion, but his appearance was
miraculous. People made no pre-
tense of observing the customs OF