Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Hitchcock Sr. was Louise Eustis of New Orleans. Her husband, third son of a Thomas Hitchcock who worked on the editorial staff of the New York Sun under Charles Dana, was one of the young Newport sports of 1886 who organized and played on the first U. S. international team. She started her son Thomas playing as soon as he was old enough to swing a mallet. She helped young Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to learn the game...
...Hitchcock, F. S. Skiddy von Stade Sr. and other fathers and an occasional mother played against the Meadow-Larks. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. grew up and went to War. For a while there were no Meadow Larks. Then the second Hitchcock boy, Francis ("Frankie"), was big enough to start.* When he was going to school in Aiken, S. C. his mother sent him mallets and balls enough for two teams. They played on bicycles on a red clay field. Later Frankie had a hard fall that ended his riding for the time, but the boys who had played with him, still...
Boys are always playing polo on the Hitchcock field. Even during the juvenile depopulation that falls upon Long Island in August because mothers mysteriously believe this to be an unhealthy season, young candidates for next year's Meadow Lark Club are being watched by Mrs. Hitchcock and coached by a onetime British cavalry sergeant named Gaylord. On the present squad, potential internationalists of the future, are Skiddy von Stade Jr., Julian Peabody Jr. (a Hitchcock grandson), Devereux Milburn Jr., Jack Milburn, David Dows Jr., Jimmy Curtis, Marshall Field Jr., Coolidge Chapin, Charlie von Stade, Jack Windmill, Nelson Brown, Scott...
Vital, active, with iron-grey, curly, bobbed hair, Mrs. Hitchcock wears riding boots and breeches through most summer days. At 65 she still talks in the soft New Orleans drawl of her girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first...
Engaged. Francis C. E. Hitchcock, youngest member of the famed Long Island polo family (see p. 24); and Mary, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George J. Atwell; at Manhasset...