Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXIX.   No. 45.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932.
Price 5 Cents
OfyrUling fiolo in Sewickley
Upper left: The 107th Field Artillery Band marching between the halves. Upper right: Paul Mazuzan, of the Vangs,
riding towards the sideboards after the ball. Lower left: The pretty ponies walking off the field at the end of a chukker,
with the well-filled boxes and grandstand in the background. Lower right: Watching the game from the field side seats,
showing the cars in the parking spaces, as well as people on the bluff and on the hospital terrace.
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A colorful crowd of nearly 2,000
gathered at tho YMOA field Saturday
afternoon to watch the Shadysido
Academy team defeat tho Vang team,
10-5, in tlio first polo match over held
in tho Valley. Sponsored by tho Sowickley Advisory Council, tho exciting event netted approximately $1,250
for tho council's unomploymont reliof
fund, An unfortunate accident marred
the gamo iu the socond chukker, whon
Bailoy McCreery, riding No. 3 on tlio
Shadyside team, was thrown as his
horso stumbled and fell ovor tho sido
hoards at tho southeastern end of tho
field as ho was riding full tilt aftor
tho ball.
Aftor a fow moments rest, ho ro-
mountod, as tho audionco applauded
and finishod tho chukker, apparently
not severely injurod. Half way
through tho next chukker, however,
just after making a difficult save, tlio
seventeen-year-old (player fainted iff
his saddle and Sowickloy firemen, acting as ttshors, rushed on tlio field,
caught tlio player and carried him to
Bitchey's ambulance. Ho was rushed
to tlio Valloy Hospital across tho road,
whoro ho was givon emergency treat
ment for a broken left collar bono
and thou taken to Pittsburgh. King
McCreery, Franklin and Marshall Col*
lege Star, older brother of tlio injured
player, took his place on the, Shadyside team. However, ho had only recently been discharged from a hospital following an operation for a
spinal injury suffered in a steeplechase, and only played ono chukkor.
Then David I. McCahill, Sr., who had
been reforeeing tho match, finished tho
gamo as No. 3 man on tho Shadysido
team, whilo Georgo Chubb took his
place as referee.
Tho spectators, many of whom woro
from Pittsburgh and surrounding
towns, filled ovory inch of spaco available behind tho wire oroctod at tho
southern end of tho field, occupied tho
chairs donated by E. D. Ritchoy along
the eastern sido of tho field, filled the
cars parked iu tho parking spaces bo-
hind tho field sido scats, covered the
slope near tho annox, occupied about
two thirds of tho grandstand seats and
a number of boxes, as woll as standing
and sitting on tho roof and porch of
tho "Y" building, on tho wall along
tho golf course,  on tho old hospital
steps, on tho hills overlooking the field
and along tho fonco on Division Streot.
Whilo tho people in tho latter locations did not pay admission, thoso who
went to tho now hospital building to
watch tho gamo from windows or from
tho third floor terrace woro charged
general admission by Miss Maud Newman, superintendent.
Tho 107th Pield Artillery baud, in
khaki uniforms, arrived at tho field
and marched back and forth several
times in front of tho flag-decked boxes
sevoral timos whilo tho crowd was
arriving and being directed to thoir
places by a number of Sewickley and
Edgeworth firemen, state police, highway patrolmen, polico from all throo
boroughs and Sewiekley Heights, and
several members of tho Legion Drum
and Buglo Corps. A tent, erected bo-
sido the grandstand, was tho headquarters for the Sowickley youths and
Girl Reserves who circulated throughout tho grounds selling refreshments.
Tho big trucks used for hauling tho ■
horses woro parked bosido the upper
tennis courts and grooms constantly
exorcised tho good-looking ponies at
that end of tho field.   A seore board
was oroctod on tho tennis court foncc,
but it was hardly needed as tho announcer on the public address system
kept the crowd informed of tho score.
Tho assemblage was addressed over
tho loud speakers, whieh woro installed
and operated by tho Bell Telephone
Company, by J. C. Chaplin, who explained that tho Sewickloy Advisory
Council was working towards the end
of raising monoy for relieving unemployment, in tho Valloy. Ho highly
praised tho members of tho committees who had worked so hard to make
tho necessary preparations and road
the names of tho members of the various committees. Ho announced that
tho playors had donated thoir services
and that the band camo down free of
charge, and then introduced P. J.
Chosternian, vice president of tho Bell
Telephone Company.
Mr. Chosternian said that many calls
woro being mado by those, who,
through no fault of tlioir own, aro
poor and urged his listeners to think
of tho children of thoso families and
aid   in   maintaining   boys'   clubs   and
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