Four Horsemen

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Four tired, dripping, happy horsemen guided their lathered ponies across International Field, at Meadow Brook, L. I., toward the official box of the U. S. Polo Association. They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet. Said the Scoreboard: "U. S., 14; England, 5."

At the box, the four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl—the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory—Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge Jr.

A fifth man joined them—Malcolm Stevenson, for whom Strawbridge had substituted as Third Horseman when Stevenson was lugged from the field unconscious in the first game. He, too, raised the cup, arrested it at his lips, passed it on to a sixth man standing by. The sixth man smiled, bowed, drank. After Edward of Wales, Stevenson had his draught.