Meadow Brook Mistakes

On the special Long Island R. R. trains that ran out from Manhattan in 40 minutes, orchids were peddled instead of candy, cigarets or papers. At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho. Famed Poloist-Comedian Will Rogers, just back from a round-the-world trip, motored straight to Meadow Brook to greet the members of the West team that had already lost one game in the two-out-of-three polo series against the East. Said he: "It's all right, boys, I'm here.''

But it was not all right.Trying to save a goal, West's Back, Elmer Boeseke, hit a shot toward the sideboards which caromed off his pony's fore foot straight through his own goal for the first score. The equality between young, lively Easterners and heavier, more experienced Westerners grew increasingly apparent thereafter but the enormity of Elmer Boeseke's mistake was revealed when the game was over. The Scoreboard on the clubhouse showed that the side which had made fewer goals had paradoxically won game & series, East 14, West 13.

P: Modelled after the late Harry Payne Whitney's famed ''Big Four'' which won the international matches against England in 1909 and coached by the "Big Four's" famed Back, Devereux Milburn, the team that played for the East last week was built around its No. 3, tall, brawny, 27-year-old Winston Guest, second cousin of Britain's Winston Churchill. After last week's game young Winston Guest did not even wait for dinner before rushing to town with his bride, Helena McCann Guest, to tell the New York Young Republican Club about his three ambitions for 1934: "To marry Helena. ... To help win the East-West polo series. . . . To win the election in the 19th [State Senatorial] District. . . ."

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