Sport: At Meadow Brook

The J. Cheever Cowdins gave a party the night before and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney gave one the night after. There were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be made—guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at...

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