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Show If i "Win the Cup and You Win Me," Said l I J; Pretty Nancy Steele-and That's Why , , g I I I' . ZWeu M&arn Played the Game I , IMWH I I of & Z-tfe Agamsf His British Rival ' I mm "WvyHETN Devereux Milburn, the mK X "test polo Lack in the 'MB world, defended the Amer- Jm lean goals In the recent polo tourna- , a j anent on Long Island -with such fer- ' 1 vor that he wore out half a dozen ? : ponies, he was doing more than keep I ; ins the famous silver trophy In this 'jj ; country he was playing to win a '. j ' girl's heart. "With that silver polo A ! cup went the heart and hand of one of the prettiest girls in America, -t Miss Nancy Steele, daughter of ?j i iQiarles Steele, who is one of the j members of the great Morgan firm. iEvery spectacular dash down the '. 'field that "Dewy" made scored one J in his favor with Miss Steele, and & j counted one against the British A : player who had entered the IL'fts ' ! t against "Dewy" the player as vrell ! as "Dewy" the lover. f Every time "Dewy" passed the 'jj j , Ib'all to Larry Waterbury, thus help- ' ' dng Larry to make one of his sensa- ! ft tional goal plays, "Dewy" scored an- !'i ft other point in Nancy's favor. The ' W forty thousand men and women who thronged the great grand 'stands at a Meadow Brook to watch the fight be- m !Wen e nes p0 Payers the she put on long skirts and turned up her chestnut pigtails. At ten years she was a rabid rooter for the Meadow Brook teams, and every year since she has kept her euttiusl-asm euttiusl-asm at concert pitch. When she was eleven she told her older sister Eleanor, El-eanor, that she would never marry a man who did not play polo; and, more than that, ' M&t he must be a - great player, 0M not just an am- M ateur. While her younger It'', sister and her MWMf girl friends Ijji were reading mj$'$ fairy tales, p - xy?$m Nancy's favor- . MMM itebookwasa SS treaUse on the IPSfS noble game of i'SMM p10- wMMmt Two years American team WimWm won the tour- WmM0M J I Devvie" Milburn as He Looked on the Eventful Afternoon 'llr When He Won a Bride by Defeating jjKI the British Polo Team. I i ,,world had no idea that before their , eyes there was also being played a :JU delightfully idyllic love game. Not I ' IS I ne f tliem knew tlmt a heart was ; ' 1 1 to go with the cup. Miss Steele and k, 'jlher lovers (for there were two of 1 Jj them) kept the secret well. i I f thus keI)t for not untl1 tuia moment lla8 tiB name of the rival English-" English-" ' h2 !'-DJan been mentioned. No. Miss .1$ Steele steadfastly refused to tell, but rk finally one of her closeBt friends jwhispered to one of her closest ''f rIend8 that the unlucky man was '! 3f at WODflerful backhand player, ' v4 iraila,n Vdvian Lockett, of the In-'3 In-'3 Juan Army. "1 'v,It: was a mve c011, a contest rt tttiat would have put to shame the - S JfuughtB of old who fought for their ivies' hearts and favors. Never lu 1 the earliest days of romance did & SFaVe lover flgufc 11,01,(3 bravely; lk) Jeyer did n defeated rival tnke his 5-tfo pefeat more gamely. ' ' i But how did th1a all happen? '; 4 LV ! steeles polo enthusiasm is b ; J ? ' 5ara l0US befora nament from the Britons and the cup was kept in this country Nancy said to herself that only a man fitted to win that cup should win her heart. But all this time she was going about having the usual Jolly time that girls of her wealth and social standing have in this country. Her sister Eleanor fell in love and married mar-ried a French nobleman, CJoirnt Jean do la Greze, Nancy was one of the bridesmaids. Her only criticism of the new brother-in-law was that he did not know a thing about polo. Last Winter Nancy came out. Her dobut was one of the important events of the New York season. Bho danced and dined and skated and flirted generally, but there was no one man with whom her name was seriously connected. But early In the Spring, 'way back in March, when the practice polo games began, it was Been tbat Nancy attended every ono of them, no matter how cold the wind that blew over the , Hempstead pjalns. Charming Miss Nancy Steele Who Staked Her Heart on the Outcome of the International Foto jB ,, Match, and ,(" the Right) Her Sister, the Countess de la Greze. h i&tilfmSm Tancy has gone hack to her first love," said her friends. But, you see, Nancy had never deserted de-serted her first love. She was merely going on with it. But now she had a new object in view. Being a wise young person she knew that if she was to marry a polo player she would have to make her choice from among the men who would play in tho international matches. And necessarily her choice was limited, lim-ited, for only two of the American players were unmarried, and the English Eng-lish team at the time was not formed. "With so charming and delightful a maiden as Miss Nancy following the games so interestedly, there could be but one outcome The good-looking back on the team, "Dewy" Milburn, an, it pleases you, fell desperately, etrenuouBly in love with Miss Nancy, and there were soon evidences that she was losing her heart to him. But she was a Btrong-minded young charmer, and intended to test her lover before promising to love, honor and obey him. Of course there waa no third or fourth person present to hear whafc Mr. Milburn said to Miss Steele or what Miss Steele said to Mr. Mil-burn Mil-burn on the day that he put his fate to the jump. But the events that have transpired since that time make it possible for ua to recon struct that conversation. "I love you. "Will you marry me?" were undoubtedly some of the words used by the lover. "Yes, perhaps that is, I will if you win the polo game," were undoubtedly un-doubtedly some of the words used in Miss Steele's answer. Very well, then. "Dewy" lenew that his task was comparatively easy. All he had to do was to keep the Britons from winning the tournament! tour-nament! "And that will fee a cinch," ssald "Dewy," the greatest polo back in the ytexliit But hist! Another factor enters this exciting game of hearts and polo. A year ago, when Nancy was visiting her sister, the Countess de la Greze, in France, she met tho most charming English officer, home from India on leave. His name waa Lockett, and he certainly could talk as well as play polo. He found the American beauty keenly interested in his game and himself. He ho-oame ho-oame Interested In her, not only because be-cause she was beautiful and fascinating, fasci-nating, but because it was rumored that she had vowed to marry only a great polo player. The fact that she was Charlie Steele's daughter, and sure to inherit in-herit several of his millions, did not count so very heavily with the Englishman. Eng-lishman. In fact, not onoe have these millions affected either Mil-burn Mil-burn or Lockett Millions and romance ro-mance never go together. But alas! In the midst of a very interesting friendship that might have terminated happily, orders came which sent the. Indian officer . back to his company in India. Miss Steele returned to America, And now, you 6ee, we are hack again to the point whore Mr. Mil-burn Mil-burn is put to the test where he finds that he must win the cup if he would win the lady. He puis such force into his prac tice game that he wears out his opponents op-ponents and his ponies. And in the very heat of things word comes from the Duke of Westminster tbat Vivian Viv-ian Lockett, of the Indian army, will be one of the team sent here to fight for the cup! But, naturally, "Dewy" did not know that this announcement an-nouncement would materially affect his love affair. He did not know of the impending menace to his love romance. ro-mance. He did not know that what he thought was a twosome would become -a three-cornered game the Instant the Briton landed on Jions Island But Miss Steele undoubtedly had her suspicions, Captain Lockett was a constant visitor at Sunny-ridge, Sunny-ridge, the handsome home of the Steeles. He plainly showed his interest in-terest in the tall, handsome Nancy, and whenever possible he rode and drove with her. But "Dewy" also rode' and drove. And "Dewy" also played as good polo as ever. Rumor has it that there were times when Miss Steele resented his devotion to his game. She might want him to win the cup, but she also wanted his attendance on her to be more faithful. This attitude Tvas not logical, but Miss Steele waa a woman. There was no third person present when Captain Lockett urged his claim on Miss Steele, but, as in the case of Mr. Milburn, It is possible to piece out the conversation. "Will you marry me? I adore you," was undoubtedly the tenor of the Captain's conversation. And there is no doubt that Miss Steele said: "I will marry the man who wins the polo cup. If the Britons Brit-ons win you will win me, but if the Americans win Mr. Milburn will win me." 'And now we coma down to the day the last game was played in the tournament. The American team had won the first game, one of the most spectacular spec-tacular and thrilling games ever fought. The Britons were as determined de-termined to win the second game as tho Americans. But no one was more tense during dur-ing the sixty minutes play" than Nancy Steele seated in her father's box in the club enclosuor. When Captain Lockett made on df these astounding back-hand plays and sent "Dowy" Milburn hurling down tho field after the ball, Nancy's hands clutched her parasol and her cheeks flushed Jjejaj jroaeBj m JEIfcarj tense moments throughout that game that made her heart flutter loud enough to be hoard way over on the field. At least she thought so. Then came the last period when the score stood one half goal in favor of England. It looked very much as though Nancy would becomo a British subject by marriage. Then in the very last ball or the last period Lockett himself fouled Larry Waterbury and the Britons were penalized the half goal and the victory vic-tory went to "Dewy" and his team. Lockett after all gave "Dewy" his bride! The announcement that Miss-Steele Miss-Steele would marry "Dewy" was made the day after the cup was won. And everybody said that it was Just Wm&W mm mm vtr Miss Eleanofa Sears. "Dev vie" Milburn Taught Her to Play Polo, but She Sturdily Refused to Learn to Love Him. only the closest - friends knew tht secret of the double love affair. Mr. Milburn has had more than one promising love affair. A few seasons ago when Miss Eleanor jH Sears was playing polo with a men's team Mr. Milburn devoted himself to her so constantly that an en gagement was fully expected? But IH although "Dewy" taught the'athletio Bobby all she knows about polo and jH although she has always attended every big game when "Dewy" play jH od, still Bho refused to reward him. J And he has naturally turned to an- other for comfort. There Is a jH rumor, however, that the strenuous jH Bobby does not like having ''Dewy" IH find comfort so soon! Milburn is one of the popular idols in tho polo world. He is a jJ son of John Milburn at whose home in Buffalo Fresidont M'Klnley died. He learned his game in Eng- jH land when he was a student at ox- lf ford, but his love game he has learn-ed learn-ed in this country. And in both games Mr. Milburn has shown 'him H self an adept, as results show- jH |