East Over West

The first East-West polo matches at Chicago last year were a Century of Progress triumph. They produced two weeks of noisy entertainment by Chicago socialites and the liveliest polo in 20 years. In the second East-West series, which started at Meadow Brook, L. I. last week, the East's main consolation for producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith and Aidan Roark, with a brilliant unexpected victory.

The score when the seventh chukker started was West 8, East 4. East got the ball at the throwin. Tall Winston Guest sent a long pass to Mills for a goal. A moment later he made the longest hit of the game (100 yd.) to Phipps, who scored with a backhand. Post a minute later scored on a free shot after a foul. Guest got the ball at the next throwin, took it down the field, tied the score at 8-all. Before the West could recover from its surprise, Phipps had scored two more goals and the period was over.

The socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West 8.

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