Evening star., 1934-06-03
TWO LATE GOALS
DECIDE HOT GAME
War Department Four Goes
Into Last Half Trailing
by PA Count.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.

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" a quartet of polo-playing
War Department officers
to a narrow-margin victory over
four young malletmen from
PENNSYLVANIA Military College
here yesterday afternoon, while
5000 spectators lined the bor-
ders of Potomac Park field to
watch the see-saw battle.
Throughout the first three of six
chukkers the hard riding college
youngsters managed to nurse along
a two-goel advantage handed them
under handicap ratings, but at the
start of the second half the Army
team gathered itself and loosed an
unbeatable flow of shots.
Lieuts Gordon Rogers and Harry
Stadler, playing at No. l and 2, re-
spectively, for the Department, drove
hard into the enemy territory repeat
edly, while their teammates, Capt.
Lucien Truscott and Maj Joseph
Swing gave them superb backing and
turned the always aggressive tide of
resistance offered by the visitors.
Go Down Fighting.
"HE Pennsylvania riders fnally
were battered into defeat with
two last-minute goals, but they
went down fighting At no moment
up to the final gong could any one
have predicted with certainty that
their efforts would fail. When they
held the whip hand in the first three
periods, they continued nevertheless
to pour forth relentless attack on
their opponents goal. The visitors
keen work held the local poloists
scoreless in the first division, al
lowed them to slip over only two
counts in the second while Jack
Young, at No. 3, added another to the
P. M c. score. The collegiates
opened their lead to two goals in the
third chukker with Slashlng game
which kept the somewhat puzzled
Army officers too busy to organize
defensive or tend to their own scor-
ing.
With the board at 4 to 2 against
them when the half ended, the Army
players took breather and tightened
their belts a notch or two In determi-
nation. 1t was their turn to flash
brilliant speed and mallet work as
the fourth episode opened, and Rogers
and Stadler twice smashed the Will
low between the posts, coming to
even terms with their juniors.
The visitors by no means proved to
be morning glories. When they were
caught, they turned on the juice
again and broke the tie early in the
fifth period as Young hooked another
sizzler through the posts. Lieut..
Stadler's reply to this sally was a
brilliant run from midfleld, carrying
the ball to the Army's fifth score
also. His running mate. Rogers,
topped it off by shooting another
marker Just after the bell had rung
on open play in the chukker.
Play at Top Speed.
TRESHLY mounted and obviously
charged with the will to win, both
sides burst into the final round at
top speed. There was some over
anxious hitting in both camps, and
eventually the eager play led to a
foul against the War Department.
Young Bud Combs, the Pennsylvania
star No. 2. whose long hitting had
proved important throughout the
game, registered his first score on the
foul shot, and once more the board
showed a tie. A few seconds later,
catching a pickup shot out of sharp
scrimmage. Capt Truscott swung clear
of interference, sent his fleet pony,
Six Bits. racing away from pursuers
and smashed a 75-yard goal square
between the pylons.
The PennsylvanianS fatty refused to
accede the advantage. After brief
tussle they wrested the ball from the
officers and swept into the danger
zone where Combs scored again.
Within three minutes of play there
had been three goals, two ties made
and broken. The crowd was almost
dizzy from the sudden shifts in the
fortunes of its favorites, and scarcely
had they settled down after Combs
shot when Stadler confscated the pill
for his own uses, made long run up
field and put the Army ahead 81.
There it stood until the final 80
seconds, when Truscott shook loose
again and set the ball up for Rogers
to rush in and finish it off. Rogers
galloped to the follow-up shot and
the ball went through the posts. Of
ficials saw the pellet had struck his
pony and was knocked over, giving
one official credit to the adroit ponies.
Two seconds later the closing gong
sounded.
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