Sport: At Hurlingham

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Devereux Milburn played a brilliant game at back but the team missed Harry Payne Whitney at No. 3. Under the hot sun at Meadow Brook, sitting in the stands under dainty parasols or fanning themselves with huge boaters, a crowd of 10,000 saw England's dashing polo team of four Army officers win the second straight game against the U. S. for the Westchester Cup. That was June 16, 1914. England has not won a polo game against the U. S. since.

Last week a hot sun at Hurlingham blazed on the tenth subsequent U. S. v. England polo game, second in the fifth post-War series. In the first game fortnight ago, hard-riding Hesketh Hughes had led England to glorious defeat, 9 goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last chukker, with the score 7-to-6 for the U. S., Hurlingham's packed stands prayed for a tying goal. Instead, Pedley nursed the ball through England's goal posts. Two minutes later chukker, game and series ended.