Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poloist Thomas Hitchcock...
Married. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, youngest member of the famed Long Island polo family; and Miss Mary Atwell, Long Island socialite; at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Manhasset, L. I. Best man: Brother Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., international polo captain...
...shall be at the field after one team has won one game. The score of the first game (10 to 5 for the U. S.) had made the second game seem a foregone conclusion. Largest score in international history, 14 to 9,* hung on the hooks when Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., matriarch of U. S. polo (almost run down by an importunate newsreel truck), watched Mrs. Charles H. Tremayne, wife of the non-playing English captain, hand back the cup to stalwart Thomas Hitchcock...
...Captain Hitchcock raised the chalice to his lips, passed it to his teammates, then to the vanquished, and the work of three years of selecting men and mounts from both shores of the Atlantic and the expenditure of elaborate sums of money was finished. Not until 1933 will another Big Moment occur...
...crowd of 45,000 people and personages had been treated to what Hitchcock again described as the "hardest" game he had ever participated in (TIME, Sept. 15). Even if you were unable to understand the strategy of a game that to the layman appears a game of imperfection, of constant trying and missing, two events of the afternoon afforded the sort of thrill that brings most people out to watch auto races...