Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course everything we had has been swept away. To get to Europe and back here I had to sell my last pearl studs. . . . I have wealthy friends here. I used to play polo with Tommy Hitchcock. . . . But I do not want money from them. If they should offer to lend me money I would fling it in their faces...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
Sued for Divorce. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, Manhattan broker's clerk, younger brother of No. 1 U. S. Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; by Mary Atwell Hitchcock, daughter of a Manhattan contractor; in Newburgh. N.Y. Charge: misconduct...
...Cecil Smith, Texas cowboy, and Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California, who were mainly responsible for the West's polo victory over the East last summer: ten-goal handicap rating by the U. S. Polo Association. Only other ten-goaler this year is famed Tommy Hitchcock, for the 13th successive season...
Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...