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Harvard tallied first when a pony kicked the willow through the posts, and two more goals by Gay Dillingham in the third chukker kept the Crimson out in front at half time. Bob Lowis at number one scored three times to account for the remaining Harvard goals...
After rain had postponed the match three days, Old Westbury and Greentree rode out onto Meadow Brook's International Field with 6-goal Jock and 4-goal Sonny both playing Back. In the first two chukkers, Sonny succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker...
When, on the opening throw-in of the eighth chukker Old Westbury's No. 2, Texan Cecil Smith, cut in abruptly to score, it looked like the end of Greentree's hopes-and it was. Iglehart and Balding succeeded in scoring another goal apiece, and Old Westbury won the match 11-to-6 for its first Open Championship...
...Bill Fergus, who scored seven goals, the All-Stars fought off every attempt of the team to overtake them. A crowd of 12,000 was dazzled by the brilliant efforts of Winmill, Von Stade and Ayer which brought them within one point of the Metropolitans in the third chukker...
...half-time Yale led 5 to 4 with the third chukker providing several spectacular goals. High scorer for the Crimson in the fast-riding duel was Skiddy von Stade with four goals...