Open to Greentree

Aurora scored three goals before Greentree got started. Then, with Tommy Hitchcock at No. 2 playing as well as he did before injuries the past two years made it look as if his polo days were over, Jock Whitney's team began to show its class (TIME, Sept. 23). Little George H. (''Pete") Bostwick, at No. 1, missed half a dozen shots at the goal but he counted with three others. Gerald Balding, at No. 2, had a hard time turning the speedy Aurora attack but he got away for two goals and Whitney made another which put Greentree ahead, 6-to-4. By the end of the eighth chukker, Aurora had tied the score and the teams came out to play again--a "sudden-death" period, ending whenever either made a goal. At the end of the period, Hitchcock picked up the ball near the sideboards, flicked it to Balding, who passed to Bostwick. Bostwick's shot split the goal and the U. S. Open Polo final, on International Field at Meadow Brook, L. I., was over, 7-to-6 for Greentree.

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