Evening star., 1930-09-11
.PEDLEY BRILLIANT
AS BRITISH BEATEN
Scoring Ace Leads Stirring
Rally That Gives Yanks
Second Game, 14-9.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

N
v v supremacy in the polo
world for years built
around the talented aristocratS of
Meadowbrook's classic school, to-
day can beStow large portion of
the credit for her latest triumph
over Great Britain to the sharp
shooting son of California-Eric
Pedley.
Six years ago this square-jawed, hard
riding and hard-hitting horseman gall
loped in from the Far West to become
sensation on Eastern fields, but the
best they conceded him that year was
q substitutes role when international
competition rolled around.
This Summer, Pedley, now "a, came
on again to thrust his way through all
opposition, and clinched the all-impor-
tant No. position on the new American
"Big Four" Yesterday, in the second
and deciding match of the International
Cup series, he was the outstanding star
and scoring ace in the spectacular clos
ing rally that gave America a l4-to-9
victory over Britain and clinched pos
session of the trophy for another period
Of three years.
First Westerner to "Crash."
The first Westerner ever to crash"
the famous American "Big Four" Ped
lev signalized his baptism in interna-
tional competition by leading the scor-
ing in each of the two successive VIC
tories scored over the British chal-
lengers. He contributed five goals in
the opening match last Saturday,
which America won by 10-5, and he tai
lied the astonishing total of 8 yes
terday for an aggregate of Is in two
games and a record Tor international
Cup play.
The vital part of the story, however,
Is that Pedley ran wild with his mallet
when it was most needed. He had bril-
liant support and help from Earle A. {.
Hopping, the 22-year- No. 2 man. as
well as from the great American cap
tain, Tommy Hitchcock, but the Cali
fornian was deadly from any and all
angles when goals were needed to save
the United States from defeat. He
scored six times in the last three
sive American goals during the squirt
that overcame the early British lead
and finally put the challengers to rout.
The five goals by Pedley were the
margin by which the cup defenders
captured the deciding match.
America Hard Pressed.
Not since 1914 has America been
harder pressed by British polo team
than was Capt Hitchcock's white-clad
array yesterday In as thrilling and
hard-fought match as the classic Sc
ries has ever witnessed. For five Of
the eight periods the challengers, bat
ting desperately to win and extend the
series to three games, gave the
highly favored Americans a terrific
hand-to-hand and horse-to-horse fight.
The 42-year-old Anglo Argentine, Lewis
Lacey, was all over the field, shooting
goals and made things uncomfortable
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the dashing Irishman, repeatedly broke
through the American defense, riding
so desperately hard that one Of his
mounts went down with broken leg
and had to be destroyed.
Three times the British forged to the
front, only to be overhauled by des-
perate counter-charges led by Hitch
cock. The Americans missed many
scoring chances, so hard were they
pressed, and Pedley was blanketed by
his burly opponent, Lieut.. Humphrey
Guinness. At the close of the fifth chuk-
ker, the British led, z to 6, and the
Americans were dismayed as their star
back. winston Guest, tumbled from his
horse in mixup and narrowly es-
capped serious injury.
The tide turned abruptly and spec
tacularly In the sixth. Where they had
been missing easy shots, Pedley and
Hopping suddenly found the range.
Hitchcock fed the ball at long range
to his forwards and each scored twice
to give the Americans a 10-7 lead and.
for the first time. a commanding
margin. Guest, instead of being
damaged, became inspired on defense.
It was still a desperate fight, but the
Yankee horsemen were finally going at
top speed and getting results.
Lacey Tires, Ponies wilt.
The slightly built Lacey, weighing
less than $50 pounds tired. The British
ponies seemed to lose the edge from
their earlier speed. Pedley roamed all
over the field scoring with beautiful
back-hand and sharply angled shots.
He was again the Pedley Of the test
matches, a human scoring machine,
and the British defense was swept aside
by his barrage.
The American victory was the eighth
straight over Great Britain in four cup
battles since the war. Not since 1914
have the British been triumphant. This
year. misfortune pursued the chal-
lengers They lost their two No. men
and were forced to revamp the lineup
o week before the series started. This
involved shifting Gerald Balding to No.
!, a new post for him. and his inability
to score consistently was costly. Bald
ing tailed only 3 goals in two
matches, as compared to the IS scored
by Pedley, the difference being exactly
the margin between the aggregate
scores of the two teams. Lacey was
the outstanding performer for the
British, scoring half their goals, and
for the first four periods yesterday he
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