Word: brook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Four tired, dripping, happy horsemen guided their lathered ponies across International Field, at Meadow Brook, L. I., toward the official box of the U. S. Polo Association. They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet. Said the Scoreboard: "U. S., 14; England...
...four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl?the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory?Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...
While beaten English golfers were stowing their clubs at Garden City and beaten English poloists were stowing their mallets at Meadow Brook, victorious English sailors stowed their canvas at Oyster Bay, L. I. In the final International 6-Metre Yacht Races, U. S. boats had brought the point to tals to: U. S., 11 1/4; England, 104 1/4; However, there had 'been a foul. The English protested. The U. S. bowed. Another race was sailed. England won handily. Points : England, 108 1/4 ; U. S., 107. Having won last year on the Solent, the English were entitled to permanent possession...