Midwicks

A new locality was printed, definitely, unmistakably, upon the polo map of the U. S. Besides Long Island, Rumson, N. J., Buffalo, Chicago and possibly Boston and Philadelphia, there is now Los Angeles, writ large.

Those responsible were the purple-shirted followers of Captain "Carty" Burke, of the Midwick Country Club. With Eric Pedley heading the attack, they fell upon the Wanderers, a team captained by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., famed internationalist, in the finals of the national open championship at Meadow Brook, L. I., and bore off the title 6 goals to 5. Hitchcock, relying on Louis E. Stoddard, onetime internationalist, at back, twice tied the count with spectacular efforts-- one a blow from midfield. At the desperate finish, his play was "as a wild man's," but without support. The Midwicks rode together, gave Pedley's brillance a solid setting.

Last month the Midwicks swooped upon the national junior title in finals played at Rumson.

Not since 1914 and the Meadow Brook Magpies had junior champions won the open title as well.