The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-17
AMERICA WINS
 POLO MATCHES Yankees Swamp British Team To Win Big
 Trophy

MEADOWBROOK CLUB, Westbury L. l., Sept. 16.-The irresistible surge of American men and horses rode down the challenging British polo team IA to 5, Tuesday afternoon in the second match of the series for the interna' tional polo cup. The Prince of Wales and his surrounding fringe of British and Long Island nobility saw the British team defeated for the second time and saw the United States cinch large as the one which jammed the Blue board stand on both sides of the Velvet field last Saturday afternoon, again in- Long Island and a large delegation from the higher social levels of Great Britain.
 Present New Lineup
 The Englishmen presented new lineup, arrived at after much squabbling between the committee and some of the players, and this combination played better than the first four that repre- sented the challengers. But the Brit ish were spotty in their play and did not maintain in their stiff resistance throughout, and on the whole, the Americans were overwhelming. The score was the highest ever rolled up against a cup team, except in last Sat urday's encounter.
 Team work was the department in which the Americans simply could not be challenged. Robert Strawbridge went in at No. 8 for the American team in place of Nal Stevenson, who was thrown and injured in the first game. Otherwise the American defense of the cup was maintained as before by Webb, Hitchcock and Milburn.
 For the British, Lieutenant Colonel Melvill, slight-built man of almost 90 years, but one of the most daring riders in the game, relieved Major Kirkwood at No. 1. Major Phipps-Hurnby, a tall, Ianky officer, hitherto accounted one of the weaker members of the British squad, took the place of Major Hurn- dall at No. 2. Major Hundall, who is said to have been allied with the dis gruntled Lord Wimborne faction of the British group, is said to have com plained bitterly over the change. His removal was not easly to understand, either, because he had played a good game Saturday.
 The Americans devoted all their spare energy to blanketing Luis Lacey, the great star back of the British team, and did not allow him to glow with his accustomed brilliance this time.
 The British took the jump and played the Americans almost out of their sad dies in the first rush. Lacey and Felvill, aided by teamwork from the others, shot the ball down to the Amer ican zone in a position from which Welvill shot the first goal of the game. Major Phipps- -Hornby soon shot an other goal from scrimmage.
 The Americans steadied after the next throw in. Webb coaxed the ball into position for a shot at the British goal and as he was ridden off. Tommy Hitchcock came riding up and banged it through. However, the first chuckker ended with the BritOns in the lead, 2 to 1. In the second chuckker, however, the Americans scored two more and held the British scoreless.
 The British made another rush at the start of the third, but the ball missed the goal. When it was shot out again, the Americans took command of it and whanged it down the field, but here Lacey intervened and by great de- fense work took it away from the Amer ican chargers and worked it back to midfield. Twice before the period ended Lacey interposed his mallet and stopped free shots at the British goal.
 Robbed of Goals
 The British got control of the play for time toward the end of the chukker and Colonel Melyill was twice robbed of goals by the work of hard riding American backs who broke in on him just as he was swinging his mallet. .s
 There was no danger of an American defeat from the point forward and the American score mounted steadily Tommy Hitchcock shot two goals in the fifth and the score a. the end of that chukker was 10 to 8. The British could only go down fighting andathey tool desperate chances, driving their horses until the animals lathered, in the effort to hold down the American score. Team work and. more alert ponies told thu story.
 General Robert Lee Bullard presented the cup to the Americans gain after the game, the ceremony taking plac, AL1 n-s zA