Word: devereux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their ponies, hitting the ball for practice. Soon they lined up. J. Watson Webb, No. 1 and spearhead of the U. S. attack nearest the ball; a little behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert, British No. 1, unconventionally drawn back a little to get a swifter rush when the white willow ball, tossed between the teams...
Outside your magazine you print the picture of a benevolent, timidly smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...
...advice of H. H. the Maharajah of Rutlam, himself a keen, able player, who travels with the officers as companion, enthusiast, patron. Most prominently mentioned among those who may be selected by the U. S. Polo Association to represent the U. S. next September are Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Devereux Milburn, Louis E. Stoddard, J. Watson Webb, Malcolm Stevenson, J. Cheever Cowdin, Earle W. Hopping and Robert E. Strawbridge...
...Brady, Major-General R. L. Bullard, Mr. G. M. Carnochan, Mr. H. J. Chisholm, Mr. E. Y. Clausen, Mr. J. C. Cowdin, Mr. Alvin Devereux, Mr. Haris Fahnestock, Mr. P. H. B. Freling-huysen, Mr. A. L. Gimbel, Mrs. F. E. Guest, Mr. A. A. Gulick, Mr. R. C. Holmes, Mr. W. A. Harriman, Mr. J. F. Johnson Jr., Mr. V. E. Macy, Mr. Samuel McRoberts, Mr. Jeremiah Milbank, Mr. Devereux Milburn, Mr. C. H. Ptforzheimer, Mr. Allan Pinkerton, Mr. A. T. Pouch, Mr. E. F. Price, Mr. P. R. Payne 2nd, Mr. E. L. Rossiter, Mr. Franklin Simon, General...
Albert Smith Bigelow of Brookline, Philip Hichborn of Washington, D. C., David William Houck of Buffalo, N. Y., Guy Murchie Jr. of Dedham, and Chauncey Devereux Stillman of New York City...